The It List: An embezzlement story involving fruitcake, a new holiday season of 'The Great British Baking Show' and more pop culture picks for the week.
The It List brings you the best in pop culture each week.
This week, Fruitcake Fraud takes you along on an investigation into an embezzlement case at a fruitcake bakery. Meanwhile, The Great British Baking Show: Holidays is back with another season of holiday-themed baking fun, and a new documentary on tennis star Arthur Ashe called Citizen Ashe looks at his life, including his activism and advocacy.
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- "The It List" is Yahoo's weekly look at the best in pop culture. Here are our picks for the week of November, 29. This Christmas, a Discovery Plus documentary is bringing you a cheerful holiday tale of embezzlement and fruitcake. Fruitcake Fraud tells the story of Texas' Collin Street Bakery, one of the world's largest fruitcake distributors. When an accountant notices the numbers aren't adding up, an employee embezzlement scheme comes to light.
He spent a lot of money private jets, Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton, a lot of jewelry.
- You don't throw a Rolex in a lake.
- Who does that?
- If my husband had bought him a new Mercedes every few months, I would have known there was something up.
- The Great British Baking Show is back with this year's holiday edition. The show features bakers from past seasons returning to take on new challenges in two episodes, one for Christmas and the other for New Year's. It's everything you'd expect from the show with added holiday cheer and challenges designed to make the bakers bring their A-game.
- So bring in the new year, a new challenge.
- On your mark.
- Get set. Bake.
- Right. Here we go.
- How's it going?
- I have no idea, Mark.
- This is your moment to shine. A new documentary is taking a deep look at the life of tennis great Arthur Ashe. The film looks back at Ashe's legacy, from his rise to Fame as the first Black male US Open Champion to his later activism work and onto his eventual battle with AIDS and the advocacy that came with it.
- I just think about all that he did and with such purpose and determination.
- He never forgot about his race. And when I say his race, I'm talking about the human race.
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