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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's The Great British Baking Show, The L Word and a couple of essays.
Noel, Prue, Paul and Matt with the bakers. The new season of <em>The Great British Baking Show </em>is on Netflix now.

Emmy week is over, which means it can't be all that long until ... Oscars week? (Don't worry, it's still quite a while.) While you wait, we've got some suggestions.

What to watch

The Great British Baking Show, Netflix

There's a new season of The Great British Baking Show on Netflix! It's time again to try to correctly make cream puffs! -- Linda Holmes

The L Word, Showtime on Hulu

I came out about a year and a half ago, and in that time, I've been going back

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