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Bake Off Meltdown!

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  • kings hill addick
    kings hill addick Posts: 5,781
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    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?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    Lincsaddick said:

    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

    I think @i_b_b_o_r_g would agree
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    cafcfan said:

    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..."
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Cant believe this was headline news on BBC Breakfast this morning, as a country we have truly embraced mediocrity.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Greenie said:

    Cant believe this was headline news on BBC Breakfast this morning, as a country we have truly embraced mediocrity.

    We embraced it years ago and have been courting the shambolic for many moons...
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,955
    What's stopping the BBC taking the presenters and judges and paying a different production company to make "Making Cakes in a Marquee"?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    North Lower Neil said:

    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.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    SuedeAdidas said:

    Should have moved it to CH5.......The Great British Bake Off On Benefits.

    with sister programme .. The Great British Benefits Rake It In
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    I just got a BBC news alert that Mel and Sue won't be moving to C4.....

    Not the kind of news alert I signed up for!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,955
    edited September 2016
    Chizz said:

    North Lower Neil said:

    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.
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,859
    Greenie said:

    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!)
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Off_it said:

    Greenie said:

    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
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    kentaddick said:

    Off_it said:

    Greenie said:

    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.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    So the presenters will leave the show once it goes to C4.

    So C4 has basically paid £25m for a tent in a field somewhere.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    edited September 2016
    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!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,859
    kentaddick said:

    Off_it said:

    Greenie said:

    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!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,955
    soapy_jones said:

    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!

    Well, the same amount of cooks.

    Just on a different channel.

    Less maybe, with advert breaks.
  • Peter_G
    Peter_G Posts: 839
    On the 8pm news summary on BBC1, the decision by two presenters to leave a cookery programme was the top news story.

    All's well in the rest of the world then.

    FFS!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,895
    Paul Hollywood is not even his real name.

    It's Peter.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,984
    Fiiish said:

    So the presenters will leave the show once it goes to C4.

    So C4 has basically paid £25m for a tent in a field somewhere.

    Marquee signing
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  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    SuedeAdidas said:

    Should have moved it to CH5.......The Great British Bake Off On Benefits.

    Or just 'baked on benefits'.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    DaveMehmet said:

    tangoflash said:

    image

    3 good would ya's at the front (4 at a push)
    I know right, that Mary Berry really ain't much of a looker
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    PaddyP17 said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    tangoflash said:

    image

    3 good would ya's at the front (4 at a push)
    I know right, that Mary Berry really ain't much of a looker
    True, although her sister Halle isn't bad.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    It's Sky news number 4 trending story this morning.

    Their number six headline: "Theresa May urged to kick off those kitten heels"
  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    What's even worse is that a thread has been created on it that has had 1.6k views and 55 comments!!

    Right, off to Greggs for lunch!
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Sue Perkins gets a free pass for being an addick other than that I couldn't care less.
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    buckshee said:

    Sue Perkins gets a free pass for being an addick other than that I couldn't care less.

    Well...

    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.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,743
    That interview was obviously just after the Villa game!
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Silly woman, you can't support two teams. About as pointless as saying you support both Charlton and Celtic... ;)
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,811
    You might as well say you don't really support any team but you have close connections with a number.

    David Cameron?

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