The Great Pottery Throwdown

Join 12 talented UK home potters for a new battle of the clay. Follow replacement host Ellie Taylor and judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller as they put this dozen through their first challenges: a kids’ crockery set and ceramic milk bottles.

See time tick down as the 11 remaining potters show off their digital dexterity for the judges. Stand by as they put all their focus into hand-building a custom pendulum wall clock before donning a blindfold and improvising in a surprise challenge.

Honour the 10 remaining potters’ hometowns with an inanimate object challenge. Then pay tribute to Stoke, the English birthplace of pottery, as Keith and Rich set up a surprise bottle kiln test that will determine who stays and who goes.

Learn about the traditional raku method as the nine remaining potters throw Japanese-inspired tea sets. See guest judge and media darling Florian Gadsby put the contestants through a handle-pulling exercise that has them pulling out their hair.

Overdose on cute when the eight remaining potters create a trio of gnomes that are right at home in the backyard. Then see guest judge Adam Keeling from Whichford Pottery put the contestants through their paces with a sea kale forcing jar.

Get groovy as the seven remaining potters throw a pair of vessels featuring a highly decorative glaze from the psychedelic era. Then join guest judge and designer Orla Kiely as she puts the contestants’ pattern-creating skills in the spotlight.