The Great Pottery Throw Down
The ultimate hands-on competition.
Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.
Type: tv
Season: 8
Episode: N/A
Duration: 50 minutes
Release: 2015-11-03
Rating: 7.2
Season 1 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2015-11-03
The search for a top potter begins with a four-day assignment to make stackable kitchen bowls from lumps of earthenware clay.
2015-11-10
Nine potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity, all aiming to be named top potter. This week they must make a decorative hand basin.
2015-11-17
The potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity. In the main make, they must make ten identical long-necked vases using the raku technique.
2015-11-24
The potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity. The six potters must build a five-foot garden sculpture and transform an ordinary chimney pot.
2015-12-01
It's semi-final week in Stoke-on-Trent, and just five potters remain. They face their most technically demanding challenge yet - creating a decorative chandelier in bone china.
2015-12-08
It is the grand final and the four remaining potters have just three tests left before one is crowned the winner of the Great Pottery Throw Down.
Season 2 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2017-02-02
Ten home potters compete to become the new champion of British pottery. They must test their technical prowess in front of a special guest judge, ceramic designer Emma Bridgewater.
2017-02-09
In the throw down challenge this week, king of the wheel Keith demonstrates how to build a double-walled pot.
2017-02-16
It's week three and the eight remaining potters must master the art of Japanese-style ceramics.
2017-02-23
It is garden week, and the seven remaining potters must make stunning ceramics for the great outdoors.
2017-03-02
In week five, the six remaining potters try one of the most exhilarating techniques in ceramics - pit firing.
2017-03-09
In the quarter-final, the potters have ten minutes to throw the widest bowl they can while blindfolded.
2017-03-16
Comedian Johnny Vegas, a former pupil of Kate Malone, demonstrates how to throw a teapot in just one minute.
2017-03-23
In the final, the potters make a pair of identical, fully functioning light features out of porcelain.
Season 3 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2020-01-08
Melanie Sykes hosts as 12 amateur potters compete against one another, with judges Keith Brymer Jones and Sue Pryke asking the contenders to throw a breakfast set and then egg cups.
2020-01-15
The eleven remaining potters are tasked with hand-building an elaborate chess set and throwing miniature vases at the wheel.
2020-01-22
The remaining potters tackle raku firing, hand-build two animal figurines and face the tricky ceramic technique of nerikomi.
2020-01-29
The potters face a multi-coloured slip cast challenge to make two vases, and a blindfolded throwing challenge to throw the widest bowl.
2020-02-05
The eight remaining potters are challenged to build a pair of matching lamp bases. Guest judge Emma Bridgewater drops in to set an emotional ceramic challenge for the contestants.
2020-02-12
It's Greek Week, and the remaining contestants are challenged to sculpt a nude Greek statue and throw Greek jugs at the wheel.
2020-02-19
The six remaining potters are challenged to produce handmade tiles for a fireplace and to throw a chimney for a place in the quarter-final.
2020-02-26
The remaining five potters make two ginger jars and face a Scraffito challenge spot test for a place in the semi-final.
2020-03-04
The potters face their biggest challenge yet, to produce a fully functioning toilet for a place in the final.
2020-03-11
Melanie Sykes hosts the grand finale as the three potters make a quirky tea set and face a throwing challenge to impress the judges and be crowned the winner.
Season 4 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2021-01-10
Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the 12 new potters two challenges against the clock: to throw a cheese set and port chalices.
2021-01-17
It's all about bricks and mortar, as the 11 remaining potters slab-build a 3D building and, in a Throw Down first, judge Rich Miller tasks the potters with hand-making bricks.
2021-01-24
The remaining potters get fruity when they're challenged to make a bowl full of realistic ceramic fruits, and face a blindfolded throw down with a twist.
2021-01-31
It's naked raku week and the remaining potters throw, burnish and fire a pair of vases, and are set a floral challenge by guest judge and flower-making expert Rita Floyd.
2021-02-07
It's Music Week and the remaining potters sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, receive a surprise special message from an iconic artist, and make mini musical instruments.
2021-02-14
It's Terracotta Week in the pottery, and the potters are tasked to make their own range of cookware. Judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles.
2021-02-21
It's Garden Week, and the remaining potters face a green-fingered challenge: to build an animal water feature and throw a strawberry planter for a place in the quarter-finals.
2021-02-28
It's an all-American-themed quarter-final, as the remaining potters make Acoma pottery fired in cow dung and throw an Alabama ring bottle for a place in the semi-final.
2021-03-07
It's the semi-final, and the remaining potters produce an elaborate and fully-functional pedestal sink and decorate a chamber pot in Bathroom Week, all for a place in the grand final.
2021-03-14
In an art deco-inspired final, the potters make a punch bowl and decanter, before facing the tiniest throwing challenge ever set.
Season 5 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2022-01-02
Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the 12 brand-new potters two challenges: to throw a children's crockery set and ceramic milk bottles.
2022-01-09
The 11 remaining potters hand-build a pendulum wall clock and face a surprise blindfold challenge.
2022-01-16
The remaining potters make inanimate objects and judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller pay tribute to the pottery hometown of Stoke, as they set a bottle kiln challenge.
2022-01-23
It's Raku week and the remaining potters throw a Japanese-inspired tea set, before guest judge and social media sensation Florian Gadsby sets them a handle pulling challenge.
2022-01-30
It's Garden Week and the eight remaining potters create a trio of character gnomes, before guest judge Adam Keeling sets them the task of making a sea kale forcer.
2022-02-06
It's back to the Swinging Sixties, as the potters create a psychedelic pair of highly decorative glazed vessels, before guest judge Orla Kiely tests their repeating-pattern skills.
2022-02-13
It's Wildlife Week and the potters hand-build a table lamp, go wild in a Throw Down first, and get a surprise visit from a familiar face.
2022-02-20
Siobhán McSweeney's back, as the remaining potters create a self-sculpture, build their own sawdust kilns and make candlesticks under pressure, for a place in the semi-final.
2022-02-27
It's the semi-final and the potters are left feeling flushed as they make fully functional urinals, before recreating the iconic Wedgwood Jasperware, for a place in the final.
2022-03-06
The potters make a garden totem sculpture that tells their life story, followed by a regal devil's work challenge set by Rich Miller, before the winner is crowned.
Season 6 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2023-01-08
The potters take on a birthday tea set challenge, and a surprise second challenge that sees them making handleless milk jugs that must survive the bucket of doom.
2023-01-15
The 11 remaining potters craft a keepsake box with a disguised lid before facing a surprise blindfold challenge.
2023-01-22
It's Retro Week, and the remaining potters are taken back in time as they make a trio of flying birds and tackle an old-fashioned hot water bottle surprise challenge.
2023-01-29
It's Raku Week, and the potters hope to impress the judges with their hanging planters. Series two semi-finalist Freya Bramble-Carter sets a challenge with a decorative flourish.
2023-02-05
The remaining potters head for the roof to create gargoyles and chimney pots for expert guest judge Gabriel Nichols.
2023-02-12
It's an illuminating week, as the potters make an embossed table light, before guest judge, fashion and lifestyle designer Henry Holland, really tests their decadent design skills.
2023-02-19
The six remaining potters go wild as they create metallic-effect endangered animal sculptures fired in oil drums, before throwing a tall, thin-necked vase for a place in the quarter-final.
2023-02-26
The remaining potters face an altered reality as they radically alter a coffee set and throw high-footed rice bowls. Whose shapeshifting creations will transport them to the semi-final?
2023-03-05
It's a bathroom-themed semi-final as the potters make Turkish bath-style sinks and tiles and attempt Moorcroft tube lining.
2023-03-12
The remaining potters create a stacking pyramid vase centrepiece and a daring sgraffito globe.
Season 7 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2024-01-07
As the battle of clay kicks off at the wheel, the potters make a roast dinner set and identical side plates that must survive the bucket of doom.
2024-01-14
The remaining potters attempt their own take on the popular gluggle jug and face a surprise blindfold challenge.
2024-01-21
The remaining potters make Staffordshire flatbacks and face a close shave in a surprise challenge.
2024-01-28
It's Raku week and the potters create animal busts before taking on guest judge Jacqui Atkin's decorative challenge.
2024-02-04
It's Garden Week and the potters create cascading water features and hedgehog houses.
2024-02-11
It's teatime and the potters make novelty teapots and majolica decorated mugs. Plus, it's the return of the bucket of doom.
2024-02-18
It's an illuminating week as the potters take on lighting sculptures and a surprise challenge.
2024-02-25
It's the quarter-final and the potters make vintage-style water filters fired in their own oil drum kilns and throw a coffee filter.
2024-03-03
In a bathroom-themed semi-final, the potters take on the infamous toilet challenge.
2024-03-10
It's the grand finale and the potters create striking chandeliers and faceted bowls.
Season 8 - The Great Pottery Throw Down
2025-01-05
As the battle of clay begins, the hopefuls take on a salad set challenge and make identical sangria jugs that must survive the bucket of doom.
2025-01-12
The potters create a statement mantelpiece clock, and face a surprise blindfolded second challenge.
2025-01-19
The remaining potters attempt a toy Noah's ark and animals, and a surprise second challenge sends them potty.
2025-01-26
It's Raku week and the potters take on bulbous vessels and guest judge Laima Laurena's decorative challenge.
2025-02-02
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