The Great Pottery Throw Down

An exciting return to Stoke-on-Trent finds ten new home potters competing to become the next champion of British pottery. The daunting first Main Make turns up the heat with a challenge to throw and decorate a sixteen-piece dinner set.

It’s all in the timing for a Main Make that sees the remaining contestants tackle hand-built clocks, craft handles for casserole dishes, and throw double-walled pots. But who will produce the goods and who will come up short?

Things get sticky as the enthusiastic potters are given just 15 minutes to throw as many rice bowls as they can to prove their mastery of Japanese-style ceramic art.

In “garden week,” the contestants brave the great outdoors for a flowerpot throw down. But will they stay afloat in an epic Main Make that has them crafting original pieces with fully functioning water pumps?

To stay in the competition, the potters must throw as many goblets as they can in 15 minutes while remaining as precise as can be, because pieces that don’t measure up to the judges' exacting standards will be tossed into the pit of doom.

To avoid a dreaded double elimination, the potters carve their most impressive patterns onto urns using the centuries-old sgraffito technique.

An exciting semi-final finds beloved UK comedian Johnny Vegas covering for Keith on the wheel. After Johnny demonstrates how to throw a fully functioning teapot in just one minute, the contestants are given five minutes to make five!

After 24 grueling challenges, who will be crowned the winner in the grand finale of The Great Pottery Throw Down?