BBC lose Great British Bake Off

Impartial - GN?


This thread is very funny
vanp have a and a piece of
With lots of sugar for sweetening

Oh i like tea & cake, just didnt realise GN was supported by the BBC.

Trip trap trip trap...

You could get run over by a bus tomorrow vanpopple!

Where do they come from? Sigh...

I stopped watching Bake Off the season before last as I was fed up with Sue and Mel's silly innuendo and Paul's preening. I do like Mary though, on other programmes she cooks some great recipes, many of which I've tried and loved.
The programme has been bought by Channel 4 so I suppose it will be given a horrible voice over like that one on Come Dine with Me. I shan't be watching anyway.

So channel 4 will be hosting the GBBO it will not be the same with all the adverts the ads have ruined Formula 1 so I guess it will be the same for GBBO.

I'm very tired of Mel and Sue's format and Paul Hollywood is so full of his own importance. I like "Bake Off" and Mary, who doesn't feel the need to show her superiority or be offensive, I'm sure new presenters will be a breath of fresh air

Oh no - Mel and Sue not going across - what a shame

YIPEE ''mel & sue'' quit, thank god for that, they are like children.

So you do care!

Mel and Sue are good presenters either together or separately. The BBC won't want to lose them so they've probably been offered some other lucrative work.

Bake Off is tired now so expendable.

I love The Great British Bakeoff, and so does my 10yr. old grand daughter. We often watch it together and love every aspect of it. Yes, Paul Hollywood struts somewhat and Mary is old (complaining about someone being old on gransnet???) Mel and Sue add a touch of cheesy humour and the bakers are wonderful; I can't bake and am astounded by how good they are. The reason I would hate to see it move to channel 4 is the adverts. How can they do justice to the bakers with adverts every 15 minutes? It would take an hour long format to one and a half hours, or more probably cut time spent showing the bakers actually baking. I haven't read all the posts so someone may have made this point already.

Cameron's not mighty anymore. jess. He's the blamed. What a way to go. Stupid stupid stupid.

Sorry. Back to bake off.

vanpopple, to tell other people to "get a life" is childish, stupid, and illustrative of a herd mentality. Try to think of something more original. Then you just might fit in on Gransnet.

Which would, of course, be lovely.

And why is it "unfortunate" that "life goes on and things evolve"?

We like progress on here.

Looking at it from another direction - I think the BBC is very clever for getting shot of the boring cake show before it plummets.

As long as somebody continues to make the sewing competition I am happy.

Oh well that's done it for me now ... Mel and Sue are "not going with the dough" to Channel 4 ...
That particular avenue of pleasure has been closed off, to quote Basil Fawlty...

ChallangedTech you state that Mary is 'old' well we are all moving in that direction . What's wrong with being old ?

its all a bit of a soggy botton

Crumbs!

It's gone a bit pie shaped

???

I dont care what channel shows it, i find it easy to click a button on my remote.
And as with everything in life - things change, move on, grow old, and ultimately die.
So what difference to anyone who shows what.. BBc clearly dont give a hoot about the licence fee payers or they would have kept it as it is their top-rated show..

When Big Brother (which im sure you dont watch) moved from C4 to C5 and got emma willis to replace Davina Mcall, i thought it was a bad idea as i thought the show had run its time.
But so far C5 have bred new life into the show and emma willis is amazing (didnt think id like her as much as davina)

So 'ana' take a step back and wait and see, maybe just maybe you will enjoy it EVEN MORE?!
(and for folk worried about ads - i never ever watch a single advert, as i either record the progs and start it 30 mins after it begun so i can skip ads, or pause it.

I think GBBO is getting past its sell-by date and probably won't bother if it moves channels though my daughters might. I haven't watched all of the series but enjoyed the later ones. Now, I think they're struggling to come up with new ideas. None of last week's bread recipes appealed to me.

I hadn't thought to criticise the presenters, i don't care if Mary Berry is old (she's younger than my mum!) or PH is arrogant or Mel & Sue are corny. Those are the roles they've been assigned to 'play' if you like and I think they combine into a good team to get the best out of the competitors,