'The Great British Baking Show' Season 14 Sets Return Date

Bake Off is back! The Great British Baking Show has announced that it will return to Channel 4 for Season 14 (which Netflix will insist on calling "Cycle 11" for reasons that only become more obscure with time) by the end of September 2023. The new season will bring a new host to the lineup and hopefully a better attitude, with ITV's Alison Hammond taking over for the departed Matt Lucas. The series airs in the U.K. at 8 p.m. BT on Tuesdays since moving house from the BBC in 2018 and will continue that tradition with a Channel 4 premiere on Tuesday, September 26, 2023.

While Netflix will almost certainly follow with its announcement in short order (and we will update this post when they do), since becoming a co-producer on the series with exclusive streaming rights to all future episodes, Netflix has streamed episodes in America 60 hours after the U.K. premiere, the new installments arriving at 3 a.m. ET on Fridays. With no sign that is about to change, fans of the program can almost certainly mark their calendars to stream GBBO on the last weekend in September, with the premiere episode arriving on Friday the 29th.

The series has not yet released the list of new bakers entering the tent for the fourteenth season. However, changes are already afoot. As reported by The Guardian over Labor Day weekend, "National Theme Weeks" such as Japanese Week and German Week after Season 13's Mexican Week disaster. (Apparently, if the choice was to make judge Paul Hollywood actually learn something about the country in question or drop the idea entirely, the latter was deemed the easier lift.) Season 14 will instead feature the far more nebulous (and hopefully better thought out) "Party Cakes Week."