Channel 4 have set the first episode of The Great British Bake Off, if first is really the right word, for Tuesday 29 August at 8pm. This would put it head-to-head with the BBC’s The Big Family Cookery Show, which features former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, and thus the BBC have decided to move their … >
The first trailer for Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off has popped up online, and it’s looking a little different now…
The new Great British Bake Off team has been announced this afternoon. The show will make its debut on Channel 4 later this year – but without previous judge Mary Berry and presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. Restaurateur, food writer and novelist Prue Leith will join Paul Hollywood as The Great British Bake Off‘s new judge. QI … >
Well obviously, the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016 is Candice. In practical terms, it always was going to be. A baker who was determined to do the best she could, whose meeting of own personal expectations of her levels of excellence were probably more important to her than the Bake Off trophy … >
2016 has been a very curious year. It’ll be the year that we talk to our grandchildren about as they try to score energy bars from the hordes of zombies. And they’ll look to us, eyes full of wonder, and ask: ‘Did you see it for yourself? What did Selasi look like in a dress?’ … >
It’s the era of Crumb Well, and oh, you know what? We can’t pun anymore. Things are getting serious. Well, as serious as they can get in Tudor Week for the Bake Off tent. Only five bakers remain, but it’s certainly beginning to feel a lot more claustrophobic. First challenge is to make a display … >
We’re now getting to the last course, the final furlong – indeed, it’s time for desserts, as we knock out one more baker, clearing another space on the gingham altar in time for the quarter finals. The first task this week is to whip up a roulade in such a way, Mary suggests, that it … >
Week 5 and we’re half way through. We’re down to just eight bakers (although if you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ll know that’s a better result than Channel 4 have, having paid £25 million for Paul Hollywood in a tent). Andrew declares, sweetly nervously, that he’d like to make Star Baker before he leaves the … >
Between last week and this, as you’ll no doubt have heard, the juggernaut that is The Great British Bake Off has been gobbled up by Channel 4. There’s been a curious lack of celebration by the commercial channel, however – it doesn’t even look like anyone’s baked a cake – and with Mel and Sue … >
In one of the more middle class TV scandals of the year, you’ll have no doubt heard that the BBC has parted ways with Love Productions, the creators of The Great British Bake Off. With their demand for a significant fee increase rejected by the BBC, Love Productions took their business elsewhere and later struck … >