Once again this year, ABC is celebrating the season with a limited run of “The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition,” the network’s take on the format made popular in “The Great British Baking Show.” As with the U.K. original, “The Great American Baking Show” includes Paul Hollywood, bread expert and cookbook author, as a judge. The 2019 edition of the show also features a Portlander, Marissa Troeschel, who will try and impress Hollywood and his fellow judge, American pastry chef Sherry Yard.

Troeschel is a teacher at Kelly Elementary School, in Southeast Portland. In this season’s debut, at 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, 10 bakers, Troeschel among them, will take on cake and bread-making challenges.

“The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition” is hosted by Emma Bunton, of Spice Girls fame, and Anthony “Spice” Adams, former NFL Chicago Bears defensive tackle. If past seasons are any indication, the U.S. version will have the same genial spirit as the British original. After the most recent dud season of “The Great British Baking Show,” which now streams on Netflix, let’s hope the American bakers are in the tent to show they know what they’re doing.

Watch “The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition” from 9-11 p.m. Thursday; or stream it the following day on Hulu (free trial).

-- Kristi Turnquist

kturnquist@oregonian.com 503-221-8227 @Kristiturnquist

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