Great British Bake Off moving to Channel 4

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37349837

Hopefully they punt Sue Perkins into the sea.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Will halve the audience or so. Still, if you can sell a load of wank about people making tarte tatin for £25 million, why not.

[Giggles]

75% of contestants will now be required to be missing a limb and/or autistic.


Joey Essex and the fat receptionist off that filthy tattoo thing to replace Mel & Sue now that they've pulled the pin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37355065




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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Perkins gone :drool:

What a fucking glorious day.

[John Arne]

Both of them have resigned.

[Browning]

Good, can't stand them either.

My money is on Davina.

[randomlegend]

Davina :sick:

[Pleb]

"Bake Off Tent...this is Davina...you are live on channel 4 please do not throw cakes at Mary Berry."

[Pepe]

Scrumptious.

[igor_balis]

Get Lee and Herring to host it.

[Kikó]

Why is this loved?

[Lewis]

The BBC getting all indignant about it is seriously lol, although you will also have to lol at Channel 4 if Mary Berry and Hollywood Paul Hollywood turn them down and leave them with a twenty million pound job lot of ovens. Sky should have gone all Monday Night Football on it, with Gary Rhodes agonising over what he thinks are profound statements about the rise of salted caramel.

[Alex]

Why is this loved?

I'm really not sure.

Also, surely the BBC can just go ahead and create "The Big National Baking Bonanza", or whatever, and re-hire the same hosts? I mean, it's just people baking on the tele, right? I'm not entirely sure you can "own" that format.

[Dark Soldier]

Why is this loved?

It lets cunts follow the recipes or some shit so while her husband is out in the finance sector shagging a prossie, his kept wife can pretend she's justifying her existence.

Plus its twee and cute and all that Middle England shite. Innuendo teehee.

[niko_cee]

It'll die, but they'll probably get their money back from Silver Spoon or some random flour manufacturer, so everyone wins.

[Giggles]

I'm really not sure.

Also, surely the BBC can just go ahead and create "The Big National Baking Bonanza", or whatever, and re-hire the same hosts? I mean, it's just people baking on the tele, right? I'm not entirely sure you can "own" that format.

Did you ever see the list of things Clarkson, etc can't say or do in their new series or they'd be sued by the BBC? There's a massive amount written into these things that are protected.

[Disco]

You can be taken to court for straight up copying a format but given how identical lots of programmes seem to be the bar must be pretty low, if they avoid calling it the Cake Off they'll be fine.

[Giggles]

Source?

Not that I don't believe you. Just wona see the list,

I had seen one more thorough that I will look for but this is a few of them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/24/jeremy-clarksons-new-show-cannot-have-a-test-track-or-describe-n/

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They can't call Namibia beautiful?

[Disco]

The distinction here is that these are things their own lawyers have advised they don't say, not a list of things the BBC have said they would sue over.

[Spikey M]

75% of contestants will now be required to be missing a limb and/or autistic.


Joey Essex and the fat receptionist off that filthy tattoo thing to replace Mel & Sue now that they've pulled the pin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37355065




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It'll be fucking Rylan.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Putting it on Sky might be lucrative in the short term, and might pay for better cake tins and biscuit cutters for middle class bakers, but then kids up and down the country wouldn't be able to watch their baking heroes as they'd be stuck behind a paywall, and the pastime would slowly die out. They're not even teaching baking in state schools nowadays. What we need is city-based baking like they have in Australia.

[Giggles]

The distinction here is that these are things their own lawyers have advised they don't say, not a list of things the BBC have said they would sue over.

Amounts to the same thing. If the BBC were to start a baking show along the same lines there would be a huge list of things their lawyers would advise them not to include.

[Disco]

It's the same situation for both programmes but it doesn't mean they would get sued for saying Namibia was a nice place, it's just lawyers (who are being paid to ensure no-one gets sued) covering their arses.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It'll be fucking Rylan.

Or Joey Essex.

[Spikey M]

Or both.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Or both.

Don't even joke.

It would be the end of the world.

[Disco]

Arthritic bakers belittling amateurs will never be the same again.

[Shindig]

Youtube vlogger Zoella said...

I hate this world.

[wullie]

I like Rylan nowadays, he's actually a pretty good presenter. His teeth leave a burn mark on your TV though.

[elth]

Also, surely the BBC can just go ahead and create "The Big National Baking Bonanza", or whatever, and re-hire the same hosts? I mean, it's just people baking on the tele, right? I'm not entirely sure you can "own" that format.

One of our TV channels tried to sue another for ripping off a cooking show format. Got tossed out on the basis that theres so many of them stealing ideas from each other that unless it's a literal copycat program, you basically can't infringe copyright on generic TV formats.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.oddschecker.com/tv/great-british-bake-off/next-presenter

Jo Brand the heavy (lol) favourite.

Chuckle Brothers would be amazing.

I can see it being James Martin along with Winkleman or Millican.

Actually, it's Channel 4 they'll probably hire a black disabled lesbian with tourettes to get a better quota.

[Magic]

Fuck Millican to hell.

[Giggles]

That squeaky cunt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Fuck Millican to hell.

She's starting to grow on me (lend me your book mate, I'm a shambles) so I wouldn't mind it too much.

[Lewis]

That Muslim who won it last time would tick all of their quotas whilst actually being very good. So yeah, they will obviously hire Jo Brand.

[Browning]

Anyone but Toksvig. Fucking hell that would be criminally dull.

[-james-]

Victoria Coren. :nodd:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Anyone but Toksvig. Fucking hell that would be criminally dull.
I'm still seething that she got the QI gig.

Victoria Coren. :nodd:
This would be great but sadly I don't see it happening.

[Pleb]

Adam Hill.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Adam Hill.
He's shit.

He's carried by Alex Brooker.

[niko_cee]

Adam and Joe.

Or Michel Roux Jr and Chris Kamara.

[Giggles]

I could handle seeing Victoria Corens tits every week.

[Kikó]

Or Michel Roux Jr and Chris Kamara.

Now *this* I'd watch.

[Baz]

I like Rylan nowadays, he's actually a pretty good presenter. His teeth leave a burn mark on your TV though.:D

Matt Edmondson doesn't suit his voice at all either, so Xtra Factor is banned in my house to avoid any :wtf: faces.

[Browning]

Balding is favourite now....

Fuck that.

[Baz]

I've got a mate who looks like Claire Balding. If the real one says no, I'm sure he'd be game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Mary Berry isn't going with them to Channel 4, so lol at the producers and lol at Channel 4.

[phonics]

Have Channel 4 essentially spent 25 million quid on Paul Hollywood at this point? Lewis needs to do a percentage of revenue analysis on this one. Pogba sounding like a bargain.

[wullie]

At least half of that money covers Hollywood's hair gel supply.

[Disco]

They probably get that tent as well.

[Pleb]

The chuckle brothers apparently in line to host this :D

[Giggles]

They're talking about that really annoying Asian woman off the fancy bake-off replacing Berry. Enough to never turn it on again.