Should The Great British Bake Off remain with the BBC?
First Top Gear, then The Voice and now Great British Bake Off. The BBC has lost the contract to broadcast The Great British Bake Off, which will be shown on Channel 4 for the next season.
Channel 4 has signed a three-year deal with Love Productions, which makes the hit show, currently shown on BBC One.
The BBC earlier said it hoped Love Productions would change their mind and that Bake Off was a “quintessentially BBC programme”.
Channel 4 is understood to have offered more money for the brand following the breakdown in negotiations with the BBC.
The opening show of the current series, the seventh, was watched by an average of 10.4 million viewers.
The channel switch risks Bake Off losing its popular judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, as well as its co-hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. None of its stars were consulted during the negotiations.
What are your views? Are you a regular viewer of the GBBO? How do you feel about it losing the prime time BBC1 slot in favour of Channel 4? Does watching the GBBO with adverts interrupting your viewing cause you concern? Should the BBC have used your licence fee to pay to keep the GBBO? Could this be a recipe for disaster?
Should The Great British Bake Off remain with the BBC?
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Millions of people in this country have never, and will never, get to taste Lobster, John Dory, Monkfish, Langoustines, Jerusalem Artichoke, Asparagus, and many more of the ingredients that the posturing, well heeled 'chefs' chuck nonchalantly into pans as though they are going out of fashion.
I can't stand the smarmy Paul Hollywood (is that his real name, or just his celebrity name?)
Furthermore, I would be very happy indeed to see the bloated, corrupt BBC disappear off the face of the earth, along with all their 'talented stars.'
I admire Mary Berry, - she is a super wealthy woman, but must have worked hard to still be at the top at the age of 81.
The Great British Bake Off really does not teach anyone how to cook, - in my opinion it is just an entertainment programme.
It will be interesting to see if Mary is mostly interested in the £££££££'s and Mr P too.
When it moves channels, I'll give it a go, but feel without Mel & Sue it just won't be the same, plus it'll have those irritating commercial breaks.
Personally, I ignore the content of all the ads, but they still disrupt the continuity of a programme.
Please, Mrs May & cronies, give the beeb the money it needs to continue broadcasting top class programmes.
Come on Mary and Paul - do the right thing, - .....unless the offer is too good to refuse?
Bake Off is one of the programmes I make a point of watching, together with Strictly, Poldark, Dr Who, Countryfile & nature/environmental type shows. Please don't let any of these go the way of other former BBC programmes.
Could be worse though - at least I live in the UK & not the USA!
I won't watch if it moves, as I hate adverts with a passion, and hate all my programmes cursed with the white music in the background.