FANS of hit BBC programme The Great British Bake Off are getting hot under the collar at the news the show will be moving to Channel 4.
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‘By bringing the show to 4, Love Productions have ensured it will be on a terrestrial channel for audiences to enjoy for years to come, ‘ she wrote.
They added that they were “shocked and saddened” to learn of the Bake Off’s move from the BBC. “She sums up their branding completely – she is quintessentially British, with strong family values and is a talented, homely chef with no gimmicks”. I work for Love Productions. Surely Jimmy Corkhill and Sinbad should still be up there as great British comic creations with Jack and Vera Duckworth. “It’s a public service, free-to-air broadcaster for whom Love Productions have produced high quality and highly successful programmes for more than a decade”.
Ms Jay Hunt, chief creative officer of Channel 4, said she was “delighted” that the deal would “keep this much-loved show on free-to-air television”. And for an amateur baker like me, that’s a real cause for celebration. Many viewers in Britain reacted negatively to the news that an iconic TV show was leaving the country’s iconic national broadcaster.
The future of the show hangs in the balance as judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood have yet to confirm they will be joining the show when it moves to Channel 4.
In their joint statement, Perkins and Giedroyc agreed with that sentiment.
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The news that the corporation had lost the show was made worse for distraught fans when popular hosts, Sue and Mel, announced they would be leaving it when the move is made. “The BBC nurtured the show from its infancy and helped give it its distinctive warmth and charm, growing it from an audience of two million to almost 15 at its peak”. “The BBC’s resources are not infinite”, its statement said. However, the BBC said that the decision came about because the two sides were “a considerable distance apart on…” More than 10 million people tune into Evans every morning for a programme predictably packed with features about the BBC’s output, most perversely the hype surrounding Evans himself and his stab at Top Gear. “Love Productions would like to thank the BBC for the role it played in making this show such an enormous hit, and the faith they showed in us over the years to develop it”.
