Great British Bake Off 2019

I don't mind Daniel either. I don't get why so many dislike him. If I was him and kept coming second, I'd probably have had a meltdown.

Guess because he doesn't get stressed people take a disliking to him. He's also very helpful, he's always helping other bakers when they're under pressure

They forgot about Henry pretty quickly.


My favourite contestant ever is still Selasi. Don’t think anyone will ever match him.

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

I must go and binge watch the old episodes of Bake Off over the winter - I don't think I watched the first few series, I can't remember when I started watching it but certainly not from the start. Be interesting to see if/how the show has changed.

I've been thinking the same! I was a very late convert to the show.


Fairly scathing review today in the Irish Times, hard to disagree with her though.....



https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/has-the-great-british-bake-off-finally-fallen-flat-1.4061534


It's all gone very formulaic (even in the relatively few series I've watched) - you get the impression they could all do it with their eyes closed, the same lines, the same tired jokes, then they try to "mix it up" a bit and it all falls fairly flat (pardon the pun!)


I remember the same with Big Brother - the first series nobody knew what would happen, it was all wildly unpredictable and really exciting to watch - by series 3 you could see the glint in their eyes, they were playing the producers every bit as much as the producers were playing them (probably better, in fact).



I'm sure it's much the same in every reality series - I just don't watch a lot of them. They have a shelf life where they're novel and exciting, and then the contestants start playing their own game.


I really, really wish they'd bring back the Pottery Throw-Down though That was just lovely, gentle, entertaining good fun - not a cynical body among them (or maybe the series just wasn't around long enough to get that far!)

Dovies wrote: »

You just like seeing a grown man cry over a 'beautiful vase' :D
But I agree - loved it!

Think bake off is gone very 'rehearsed' - no one has ever heard of the technical yet they can miraculously turn out the right thing

Exactly! I just don't believe it much any more - and that takes all the good out of it.

Is the cameraman following Tom around the studio drunk tonight?

Some slightly alarming zooming in going on, it's very disconcerting!

Love Richard Osman, wish he could be on every week!

Not even watching tbh. Dont find it entertaining anymore

Addle wrote: »

They forgot about Henry pretty quickly.
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Apart from the on-screen tribute to their friend?

Deleted User wrote: »

Junior Bake Off is starting November 4th on Channel 4. Harry Hill, Prue and previous bake off contestant Liam are involved

Harry Hill is enough to put me right off

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Harry Hill is enough to put me right off

Liam would turn me off it. He over acts everything.
He's like a kid doing a drama class.


Rosie was very subdued in the extra slice. I'd grown to like more her as the bake off went on but she looked like a different person the other night.

Hopefully Alice wins it, don't think she will but she's the most likable of the 3.

And his diction is terrible, I find him hard to understand. I like him but he's like a drawling teenager

Dónal wrote: »

I actually disliked how they just went on the "oh you're a vet, let's make jokes about sticking hands up animals over and over again". Also thought she was treated poorly by Jo Brand who dismissed and slagged off her bake.

Even at the intro, before the opening credits she seemed off. She really didn't want to be there.

I think she’s probably just not comfortable in front of a camera/audience.
It was probably easier when she was doing something she loves-baking. Then it was about the bake, not her.
She seems like a lovely, modest lady.
She dressed very simply compared to some of the other contestants. She wasn’t looking for the same attention.