Last year's series of The Great British Bake Off was full of firsts: Mel and Sue and Mary Berry had gone, Prue Leith, Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding had joined, and the show was now airing on Channel 4 with adverts.

But that's not all, as it's now also going to be the first series of the show not to air first on PBS in the United States.

The Hollywood Reporter shares that Netflix now has first-run rights to the US airings of The Great British Baking Show (which is what they call it over there). They already have all of the BBC years on the streaming service.

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That deal is for three series: the one that aired last year, the one that's about to air, and the one that will air next year.

Those three series are the ones that Channel 4 signed the deal for back in 2016. It's not known whether the broadcaster has made a deal yet with Love Productions to keep the show for longer than that.

American viewers can catch up on all of last year's series when it arrives on Netflix from August 31, while this upcoming series is set to premiere later this year on the streaming service.

Here in the UK, viewers don't have long at all to wait for the next series of Bake Off, with it beginning this Tuesday (August 28) at 8pm on Channel 4.

Paul Hollywood recently revealed that this year is going to feature the show's first ever Vegan Week, to reflect the growing popularity of the lifestyle.

There will also be a Danish Week this year and, don't worry, the innuendos are staying too.

If you want to know who's who ahead of the first episode, you can meet all the bakers right here. The Great British Bake Off is returning next Tuesday (August 28) at 8pm on Channel 4.

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