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Season 1 – The Great Pottery Throw Down

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Ten home potters from around the United Kingdom travel to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of British pottery, to take part in a competition to become top potter.
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Linda Holmes NPR 09/18/2020
Gentle and decent and educational and serene, and which celebrate patience and beauty and the creation of things that are sturdy and will last, arrived like a shipment of fuzzy slippers. Go to Full Review Nicole Carpenter Polygon 07/26/2021
This show has it all, including a judge that cries literally every episode at the beauty of the contestants' pottery and in how hard they've worked. Go to Full Review Joel Keller Decider 09/18/2020
You can't help but feel relaxed while watching The Great Pottery Throw Down. Go to Full Review Ani Bundel WETA 09/18/2020
The show is perhaps the most fascinating of all the "Great British" reality series ever created. After all, most people see baking in their lives with some regularity and are intimately familiar with clothing. But pottery is a mystery to many. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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06/09/2022 Love this show! FINALLY a good reality show! Can't believe I"m just now finding this! See more 10/19/2021 The best creative competition yet! Better than glass or metal and absolutely kills the baking show. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Sara Cox

Host

Kate Malone

Judge

Keith Brymer Jones

Judge

Anna Beattie

Executive Producer

Richard Bowron

Executive Producer

Richard McKerrow

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Nov 3, 2015 The search for a top home potter begins with a four day assignment to make stackable kitchen bowls from lumps of earthenware clay. Details Episode 2 Aired Nov 10, 2015 Nine potters return to Stoke on Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity, all aiming to be named Top Potter. This week they face must make a decorative hand basin for the smallest room in the house. Details Episode 3 Aired Nov 17, 2015 The potters play with fire in their Main Make when judges Kate Malone and Keith Brymer Jones ask them to make ten identical long necked vases using the Raku technique. Details Episode 4 Aired Nov 24, 2015 The potters must build a five-foot garden sculpture out of slabs. Details Episode 5 Aired Dec 1, 2015 The potters must create a decorative chandelier in bone china. Details Episode 6 Aired Dec 8, 2015 It's the grand-final and the four remaining potters have just three tests left. Details

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The Great Pottery Throw Down — Season 1

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Season Info

Executive Producer
Anna Beattie, Richard Bowron, Richard McKerrow, Suzanne McGairl
Network
BBC
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Reality, Special Interest
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Nov 3, 2015