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Sunday April 1 – Saturday April 7
Celebrity British Bake O (s2)
DIY SOS: The Big Build (s28)
This is not your average cooking show
- far from it in fact. In the second season
of the celebrity-skewed baking bonanza
spin-of, revered The Great British Bake O
hosts Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry (both
pictured) put another lot of personalities to
the test as they vie for the Star Baker Apron.
Of course, it’s all in good jest, with the
contestants raising money for the biennial
UK charity event Sport Relief.
While Sue Perkins doesn’t appear in this
special, long-time co-host Mel Giedroyc is
back for one episode. The remaining three
feature comic geniuses Jennifer Saunders,
Ed Byrne and Sarah Millican at the helm.
On taking on presenting duties for the
first time, Saunders jokes: “Sue has passed
me the ‘battenberg’, and Mel has kindly
leant me her book of baking puns.”
As always, the series showcases the
talents – or perhaps lack thereof in this
case! – of former sports champions,
politicians, actors and singers, including
Spice Girl Geri Horner (née Halliwell).
Not only will the famous folk compete
in a series of tough challenges to have the
winning bake, they will also do anything
to avoid producing something with Berry’s
dreaded ‘soggy bottom’.
Who will crumble like overcooked pastry
and who will take the cake?
Tuesdays from April 3 at 8.30pm
on Lifestyle FOOD [127]
In a new season of the much-loved
series, presenter Nick Knowles is
upping the ante with award-winning
gardener Chris Beardshaw.
During this outing, the honourable
Brits give back to a place that gives
so much to so many people: Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
Knowles and Beardshaw (pictured)
team up with the Royal Horticultural
Society’s Chelsea Flower Show to
move the gold medal-winning garden
to the hospital’s rooftop, providing
a peaceful outside haven for sick
children, parents and the devoted
staf who work so tirelessly.
“I am passionate about green space
in urban settings where it can provide
a ‘visual vitamin’,” says Beardshaw.
The skill and efort required to pull
this relocation of is remarkable.
Wednesdays from April 4 at 9.30pm
on Lifestyle [106]
LIFESTYLE
LIFESTYLE
ENTERTAINMENT
Get set for another explosive outing when
The Real Housewives of New York City
returns for its 10th ofering this week.
Bethenny Frankel and Ramona Singer
(pictured from left) are joined by familiar
faces for a season of highs and lows – but
surprisingly they aren’t the ones fuelling
the biggest drama this time around!
Luann de Lesseps’ shock December
arrest for resisting an ocer with violence,
trespassing and disorderly intoxication,
as well as her subsequent rehab stint, are
front and centre. So too is the cast holiday
to South America, which results in what
has been dubbed a “boat ride from hell”.
EXPRESS Thursdays from April 5 at 1.35pm,
ENCORE at 8.30pm on Arena [105]
The Real Housewives
of New York City (s10)
Foxtel APRIL 69