My missus got back from her Secret Cake Club* meeting earlier. I imagine this news was the hot subject of the day...but you know the first rule of Cake Club.
*seriously, it exists.
Bollox to The Bake Off, Bournemouth what is secret about it? Is it a clandestine organisation? Is the cake they are going to make a secret? Or do they all go to a 'meeting' and stuff cakes down their necks with no one knowing about it?
the BBC makes less and less of its output every year .. as has been written, the makers now sell to the highest bidder .. still too many overpaid and overmanned departments to allow for big investment in programmes .. pity, the BBC for all its faults is still a British masterpiece
It seems the Beeb offered £15mn a year, twice the current price but less than the £25mn the production company was demanding. A ludicrous amount of money for a tin-pot show.
Thinking further about this, it is clear that the programme would be nowhere at all without the Beeb commissioning it in the first place and then promoting it oh so very heavily. The production company have therefore benefitted enormously from the use of the Beeb's resources.
I'd love to see the old BBC contracts. Was there really no transfer clause like footballers have? Surely the Beeb which nurtured its development from nothing to superstardom deserves a 25% sell-on fee at least?
Or as I put it: "Bake Off - the TV equivalent of Diego Poyet..."
What's stopping the BBC taking the presenters and judges and paying a different production company to make "Making Cakes in a Marquee"?
Infringement of the production company's intellectual property. Copying the format would be prohibited in the terms of the contract between the two parties. Otherwise, no independent production company would take the risk of format development.
What's stopping the BBC taking the presenters and judges and paying a different production company to make "Making Cakes in a Marquee"?
Infringement of the production company's intellectual property. Copying the format would be prohibited in the terms of the contract between the two parties. Otherwise, no independent production company would take the risk of format development.
Thought that might be the case but then there are so many similar antiques/house renovation/The Only Way is Casual Sex etc programmes around.
Cant believe this was headline news on BBC Breakfast this morning, as a country we have truly embraced mediocrity.
It had second billing on the BBC 6 o'clock news just now.
Unbelievable. Following on from an episode of The Archers making headline news on the beeb yesterday whereas no other news channels even mention it (obviously - because it's just not news!)
Cant believe this was headline news on BBC Breakfast this morning, as a country we have truly embraced mediocrity.
It had second billing on the BBC 6 o'clock news just now.
Unbelievable. Following on from an episode of The Archers making headline news on the beeb yesterday whereas no other news channels even mention it (obviously - because it's just not news!)
Some times BBC news acts as if it's the advertising wing of the BBC
Cant believe this was headline news on BBC Breakfast this morning, as a country we have truly embraced mediocrity.
It had second billing on the BBC 6 o'clock news just now.
Unbelievable. Following on from an episode of The Archers making headline news on the beeb yesterday whereas no other news channels even mention it (obviously - because it's just not news!)
Some times BBC news acts as if it's the advertising wing of the BBC
Absolutely this, they do it all the time especially on breakfast news plugging their own programmes. Same as their websites.
Could Chris Tarrant just not reprise the Phantom Flan Flinger and bring back Tiswas? Sally James may be getting on a bit but if Spit the Dog is allowed on as well, she'll do!
Seriously, just what TV needs... more fecking cooks!
Cant believe this was headline news on BBC Breakfast this morning, as a country we have truly embraced mediocrity.
It had second billing on the BBC 6 o'clock news just now.
Unbelievable. Following on from an episode of The Archers making headline news on the beeb yesterday whereas no other news channels even mention it (obviously - because it's just not news!)
Some times BBC news acts as if it's the advertising wing of the BBC
Though to be fair in this case the big news is the BBC losing a show, rather than a new BBC production!
You couldn't imagine Sky news leading on the story that Sky had lost the Champions League to BT!
Could Chris Tarrant just not reprise the Phantom Flan Flinger and bring back Tiswas? Sally James may be getting on a bit but if Spit the Dog is allowed on as well, she'll do!
Seriously, just what TV needs... more fecking cooks!
Charlton Athletic - my Dad was born really near to The Valley, and he's always been a diehard fan, so I didn't have much choice. I have two really, because I have a bit of a thing for Newcastle as well. If I'm allowed I'll have a northern team and a southern team, please.
You may -
Can I just point out something I've noticed? Whenever they report on Charlton they say they're "grinding out" a result, no matter what happens.
Right...
And can I also just say that Francis Jeffers is marvellous, he's my favourite at the moment, I love him. I reckon there's going to be a huge renaissance.
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Unbelievable. Following on from an episode of The Archers making headline news on the beeb yesterday whereas no other news channels even mention it (obviously - because it's just not news!)
So C4 has basically paid £25m for a tent in a field somewhere.
Seriously, just what TV needs... more fecking cooks!
You couldn't imagine Sky news leading on the story that Sky had lost the Champions League to BT!
Just on a different channel.
Less maybe, with advert breaks.
All's well in the rest of the world then.
FFS!
It's Peter.
Their number six headline: "Theresa May urged to kick off those kitten heels"
Right, off to Greggs for lunch!
What team do you support?
Charlton Athletic - my Dad was born really near to The Valley, and he's always been a diehard fan, so I didn't have much choice. I have two really, because I have a bit of a thing for Newcastle as well. If I'm allowed I'll have a northern team and a southern team, please.
You may -
Can I just point out something I've noticed? Whenever they report on Charlton they say they're "grinding out" a result, no matter what happens.
Right...
And can I also just say that Francis Jeffers is marvellous, he's my favourite at the moment, I love him. I reckon there's going to be a huge renaissance.
David Cameron?