NEED TO KNOW
- The Great British Baking Show premieres in the U.S. on Friday, Sept. 5, on Netflix
- In the U.K., the cooking competition series premieres on Tuesday, Sept. 2
- A trailer for collection 13 shows four vets, Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond, back in the tent with 12 amateur bakers
As summer winds down, the Great British Baking Show tent is heating up.
PEOPLE can exclusively announce that the beloved culinary competition show will be returning to Netflix on Friday, Sept. 5. In the U.K., where the show airs under its original name, The Great British Bake-Off, the series premieres a few days earlier on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
Collection 13 will consist of 10 hour-long episodes, airing weekly until the finale on Friday, Nov. 7. The season trailer reveals a season full of jaw-dropping baked goods, dessert failures and plenty of laughs, and PEOPLE has the exclusive first look.
“From across Britain, thousands applied, just 12 of the country’s best home bakers have made it to the Baking Show tent,” cohost Alison Hammond narrates in the trailer. “But this year’s competition is like no other.”
“There’s a little twisteroony,” Hammond’s counterpart and fellow cohost Noel Fielding says, causing competitors to grab their faces in disbelief. Hammond adds that judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith have set challenges that “have to be seen to be believed.”
“This doesn’t look like baking to me, this looks like science,” Fielding tells one contestant who is frantically stirring a neon green liquid.
Despite more complicated challenges, the cast are as jokey and jovial as ever.
In one clip, Hammond and 29-year-old software engineer Iain take a second to meditate and in another, Hollywood quips that a bake “looks like it’s been dropped out of a tree.”
The montage of silly moments continues, with Tom, a 31-year-old from London, calling Hollywood “a bit of a daddy, a bit of a hunky man.” 38-year-old Aaron, a senior systems architect, tells the camera, “Everyone is scared about Paul, but Prue is lowkey savage.”
“How far do you think you can go in this competition?” Fielding asks analytical research and development scientist Hassan. “Maybe tomorrow?” the 30-year-old responds.
Plus, it wouldn’t be GBBS without some mishearing. “Did you just tell me to swivel?” Hollywood says in a jokingly shocked voice to 41-year-old hairdresser Nadia.
This year’s 12 amateur bakers range in age from 23 to 59 and are from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The trailer clues viewers into some series firsts, like East Yorkshire, England-resident Natalia, 32, saying, “I feel very honored to be the first Ukrainian here.”
The Great British Baking Show collection 13 airs on Sept. 5 with new episodes dropping every Friday on Netflix.
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