‘The Great Pottery Throw Down` Is Sadly No ‘Great British Bake Off`
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Is the latest British cute-reality-TV import, The Great Pottery Throw Down, for me? I thought so—I knit, do a bit of woodworking, live in a quaint town full of odd craftspeople (one of our most famous residents is the late Beatrice Wood, an unconventional potter who lived to 105), and am a design enthusiast. And yet, the much-anticipated show—which has already been on for several seasons in the U.K.—left me not merely cold, but bothered. The show`s wildly-successful cousin, The Great British Bake Off, has charmed Americans so much that it...