Chi Onwurah, Labour’s shadow Culture Minister, linked the loss of the show to Government funding “cuts” and warned that the British public could lose more of their “favourite shows” unless ministers changed their policies.
Sigh… It’s moving to Channel 4, so hardly lost, is it?
Anxiety about the BBC losing Bake Off reached Parliament as it emerged the corporation had offered £15 million a year to programme makers Love Productions, but Channel 4 had agreed to pay what is thought to have been a total of about £75 million in three annual £25 million instalments to secure the rights.
It reached Parliament? Srsly? I have never watched it. Never will. This kind of inane crap is not what I want to watch – not that I watch much, so if it is lost I wouldn’t care, but it isn’t lost. Channel 4 offered more than the BBC to host it. So what? And the denizens of Westmonster have nothing better to talk about? Sack them. Sack the lot of them.
I’ve seen bits of it – inane crap sums it up. The BBC should raise its game well above this kind of garbage but we all know it won’t.
Bread and circuses…
Nah, this is Great British Bake Off. Let them eat cake.
Personally, I can’t wait for Channel 4 to take over Bake Off. There will be ‘Big Brother Bake Off’ with contestants locked in a house, at least one having a speciality of making fairy cakes, one using only black icing, a feminist refusing to use a rolling pin as it’s obviously a sexist implement meant to show the arrogance of males and the subjugation of women, and a bloke from Essex who only makes dumplings and oval ring doughnuts; ‘Celebrity Bake Off’ with Z list morons from reality shows arguing with, or shagging, each other while waiting for the dough to rise; ‘Naked Bake Off’ with contestants commenting on the shape and size of each other’s bodies while trying to avoid their dough rising after seeing Mary Berry ‘s baps. The list is endless. They could even have Ant and Dec presenting it – at least then the contestants won’t have to make small figures to go on top of wedding cakes. It might even make me watch it.
I thought the rolling-pin was used as a weapon of female superiority, to keep a potentially rebellious male in line:- in the style of Nora Batty, Sybil Fawlty inter alia…
I always think of Flo Capp.
LOL
BO was being hailed on ‘Today’ as just the sort of programme the BBC should be producing – because it even ticked the diversity box! I’m surprised the Beeb still makes period drama: it must be in knots trying to reconcile ‘diversity’ and fidelity to the period.
“Naked bake off”? So that’s how they get the holes in ring doughnuts… Euw.
And the denizens of Westmonster have nothing better to talk about? Sack them. Sack the lot of them.
An attractive proposition.
Yes. Having sacked them all – i.e. placed them all in one or more sacks – the next steps are to a) weight the fastened sacks suitably, and b) chuck said sacks into the Thames.
A delightfully attractive proposition.
Why is the word \”cuts\” in scare quotes in that first extract? There is an awful lot of things wrong with the BBC, but I don\’t think that being short of cash has ever been of them.
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That appears to be because I sometimes send in a comment during my break at work but use my home email address. I got an error message that I had been blocked because I was using a proxy. If it is a problem I will just save my comments for when I get home.
I whitelisted the IP.