The Great Pottery Throw Down
Genre	Reality
Presented by	Sara Cox Melanie Sykes Siobhán McSweeney Ellie Taylor
Judges	Keith Brymer Jones Kate Malone Sue Pryke Richard Miller
Opening theme	"I Can't Explain" by The Who (2015) "Making Time" by The Creation (2017–)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	55
Production
Production locations	Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, England (2015–20) Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, England (2021–)
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Love Productions
Original release
Network	BBC Two (2015–17) More4 (2020) Channel 4 (2021–)
Release	3 November 2015 (2015-11-03) – present (present)
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The Great Pottery Throw Down is a British television competition programme that first aired on BBC Two from 3 November 2015 to 23 March 2017, it was then moved to More4 to 8 January to 11 March 2020 and then moved to Channel 4 since 10 January 2021.

Format

In each episode, a group of amateur potters compete to complete two pottery challenges. In the "main make" challenge, contestants undertake a substantial multi-stage creative task: subject to given specifications, they must design a ceramic creation, build it from clay body, and decorate it, and present it to the judges for evaluation after it is fired in the kiln. In between stages of the main make, potters are given a "second challenge", a smaller-scale task testing a specific pottery skill, on which they are ranked from worst to best by the judges. At the end of each episode, the judges designate the best-performing contestant as "potter of the week". The contestant with the worst results is dismissed, and all others return for the following episode; the winner of the final episode is the overall winner of the series.

Series overview

International broadcasts

In July 2020, HBO Max secured the rights to distribute the show in the United States, where it premiered on 17 September 2020. As of December 2023, HBO Max has not released season 6 (originally aired January 2023 in the UK with season 7 starting January 2024) and has made no mention of it being released in the future. Currently, HBO Max only indicates 5 seasons exist on their website. ^[1]

A Canadian version, The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down, is slated to premiere in 2024 on CBC Television.^[2]

The Festive Pottery Throwdown

The Festive Pottery Throwdown is a series of one-off Christmas specials where celebrities participate instead of members of the public.

References

External links

• The Great Pottery Throw Down at BBC Online
• The Great Pottery Throw Down on Channel 4
• The Festive Pottery Throw Down on Channel 4
• The Great Pottery Throw Down at IMDb
• The Great Pottery Throw Down at UKGameshows.com