Anyway just caught up on An Extra Slice. I very much enjoyed the format, but agree with the people who say that Jo Brand doesn't quite fit, but it's not going to bother me. Claire was way to hard on herself, but hilarious nonetheless!
I've just watched "An Extra Slice" and I quite liked it.
As far as people asking why Jo Brand was hosting, she did a series a few years ago on Channel 4 called 'Jo Brand Through The Cakehole". Perhaps this had something to do with it ?
Anyway just caught up on An Extra Slice. I very much enjoyed the format, but agree with the people who say that Jo Brand doesn't quite fit, but it's not going to bother me. Claire was way to hard on herself, but hilarious nonetheless!
Claire is from Cheshire, if it's her accent to which you refer.
I enjoyed both programmes
I've been busy all week so I've just caught up.
Claire seems lovely but a rubbish baker.
Loving the BO, not too keen on the spin off.
I like Jo and I love GBBO but the spin off lacked something. Maybe it just need time to hit a rhythm.
I'm off to trawl the thread for wisdom, funnies and madness ;-)
The missus just brought through a packet of Cadbury mini-rolls and I complimented her on their uniformity although the sponge was over cooked. Cut a long story short I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.
To be honest - I don't understand how people could 'hate' a 17-year old at all - after all, what's she ever done to them!
I just hope that Martha (and the others) don't get too hung up on going on the Interweb to read what people are saying. If I were on one of these competitions I think I'd stay well clear for the duration!
Except even if she reads what people are saying it won't make any difference, the programme isn't live and the winner has probably already been chosen. The last prog showed torrential rain, as far as I can remember we haven't had any torrential rain since about April. The show is now in Berkshire and I'm only about 30 or so miles away, so the weather is similar to where I live.
Except even if she reads what people are saying it won't make any difference, the programme isn't live and the winner has probably already been chosen. The last prog showed torrential rain, as far as I can remember we haven't had any torrential rain since about April. The show is now in Berkshire and I'm only about 30 or so miles away, so the weather is similar to where I live.
Hopefully they have all been briefed to expect abuse online, I think someone commented that the lady eliminated last week has already responded to the 'keyboard warriors' attacking her though they are usually best ignored.
I think the best bit about the Extra Slice is that the departing contestant gets to re-make a disaster, and to show us what it should look like. That's a nice touch.
We will see if they always have to make the disaster from the departing week, or if they can go back to previous weeks. Hope they can.
It was so lovely to have GBBO back and I was looking forward to the spin-off show. There were bits I enjoyed - I actually liked the fact that random audience members were invited to bring in equally random cakes; it was a nice touch to judge the panel's culinary skills; good for Claire to prove what the show-stopper should have looked like (still a duffer in my book if it went anywhere near hundreds and thousands); and 'the head and shoulders of cake' was the best line of the week, let alone the programme.
But it had its faults too - firstly the timing. It really should have been on BBC2 immediately after the Wednesday main programme - it was a minor miracle that I remembered it was on. But, more importantly, I agree with others that Jo Brand is just too cynical to comment on GBBO. I love her as a comedian, but the presenter of anything GBBO-related needs to be somebody who is not only fond of cake, but fond of the gentle NICEness of GBBO. The main show is full of innuendo - soggy bottoms abound - but it's all so sweetly done that the smut doesn't really register. And if it does, the viewer feels a bit guilty for interpreting a perfectly ordinary remark that way. But Jo Brand emphasises every innuendo in flashing neon with a metaphorical brass band playing in the background. Boom! Boom! They might as well have booked Basil Brush.
It is a reality show. It shows members of the public attempting to conquer challenges in skills in which they are not professionally qualified. Reality is not always a derogatory term.
It is a reality show. It shows members of the public attempting to conquer challenges in skills in which they are not professionally qualified. Reality is not always a derogatory term.
Reality is a derogatory term to many people.
Your definition means that Masterchef and Celebrity Masterchef will be in Reality but Masterchef Pro in UK TV Programmes because the contestants are professionally qualified.
In programmes like Bake Off and Masterchef people LEARN useful skills like cooking and baking. In reality programmes they do pointless 'challenges' usually designed to humiliate them.
Your definition means that Masterchef and Celebrity Masterchef will be in Reality but Masterchef Pro in UK TV Programmes because the contestants are professionally qualified.
In programmes like Bake Off and Masterchef people LEARN useful skills like cooking and baking. In reality programmes they do pointless 'challenges' usually designed to humiliate them.
It is a reality show. It shows members of the public attempting to conquer challenges in skills in which they are not professionally qualified.
In that case, Mastermind is a reality show. As was the Krypton Factor, the Generation Game, Call My Bluff and Give Us A Break. In fact pretty much every show ever in which members of the public have featured apart from the ones that everybody agrees actually are reality shows..
The best definition I can come up with that 'a reality show' is one which follows members of the public in and about their daily lives, or at least some staged approximation of that. So Made in Chelsea qualifies, as does that Scrappers show that's on. As would that show about Eddie Stobart drivers for for example. They involve showing 'reality' as in people's day to day existence. Showing someone who is normally a builder larking about in a tent making mini victoria sponges is not 'reality' in so far as it's entirely staged for television and wouldn't happen if the television cameras weren't there. Or at least, it's pretty unlikely to.
There is little 'reality' in GBBO, it's an entirely artificial situation.
In any case though, we're here now. so let's get on with it...
In programmes like Bake Off and Masterchef people LEARN useful skills like cooking and baking. In reality programmes they do pointless 'challenges' usually designed to humiliate them.
But the Bake Off contestants aren't learning on the show, they are essentially doing a series of challenges, albeit ones that aren't designed to humiliate.
But the Bake Off contestants aren't learning on the show, they are essentially doing a series of challenges, albeit ones that aren't designed to humiliate.
The majority of contestants have at least one bake to do which they have not done before and many will have several. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry will make suggestions as well as they go around - sure more is said off camera. I am sure most of them will say they have learnt a lot at the end of their period in the competition.
I doubt whether many come away from Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity, TOWIE etc having learnt much or at least nothing useful.
The best definition I can come up with that 'a reality show' is one which follows members of the public in and about their daily lives, or at least some staged approximation of that.
I don't think a reality show is necessary one involving members of the public going about their daily lives. Personally I would put I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here as a reality show, i.e. although the participants are often unknown members of the public, it is not necessary so and can involve celebrities. Reality shows are about watching certain aspects of people's live, using what happen in their lives, using interactions between real people, and personal real-life drama as entertainment. Although reality shows are thought be unscripted, in actual fact it is often scripted in some ways (often by producers introducing scenarios to which the participants might react).
I don't think a reality show is necessary one involving members of the public going about their daily lives. Personally I would put I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here as a reality show, i.e. although the participants are often unknown members of the public, it is not necessary so and can involve celebrities. Reality shows are about watching certain aspects of people's live, using what happen in their lives, using interactions between real people, and personal real-life drama as entertainment. Although reality shows are thought be unscripted, in actual fact it is often scripted in some ways (often by producers introducing scenarios to which the participants might react).
From comments in the media, most current reality programmes seem heavily scripted. Basically using members of the public as actors in a soap opera.
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i don't have an accent
Everyone has an accent.
Anyway just caught up on An Extra Slice. I very much enjoyed the format, but agree with the people who say that Jo Brand doesn't quite fit, but it's not going to bother me. Claire was way to hard on herself, but hilarious nonetheless!
As far as people asking why Jo Brand was hosting, she did a series a few years ago on Channel 4 called 'Jo Brand Through The Cakehole". Perhaps this had something to do with it ?
Isn't it everyone else who has an accent?
I've been busy all week so I've just caught up.
Claire seems lovely but a rubbish baker.
Loving the BO, not too keen on the spin off.
I like Jo and I love GBBO but the spin off lacked something. Maybe it just need time to hit a rhythm.
I'm off to trawl the thread for wisdom, funnies and madness ;-)
Except even if she reads what people are saying it won't make any difference, the programme isn't live and the winner has probably already been chosen. The last prog showed torrential rain, as far as I can remember we haven't had any torrential rain since about April. The show is now in Berkshire and I'm only about 30 or so miles away, so the weather is similar to where I live.
Hopefully they have all been briefed to expect abuse online, I think someone commented that the lady eliminated last week has already responded to the 'keyboard warriors' attacking her though they are usually best ignored.
We will see if they always have to make the disaster from the departing week, or if they can go back to previous weeks. Hope they can.
But it had its faults too - firstly the timing. It really should have been on BBC2 immediately after the Wednesday main programme - it was a minor miracle that I remembered it was on. But, more importantly, I agree with others that Jo Brand is just too cynical to comment on GBBO. I love her as a comedian, but the presenter of anything GBBO-related needs to be somebody who is not only fond of cake, but fond of the gentle NICEness of GBBO. The main show is full of innuendo - soggy bottoms abound - but it's all so sweetly done that the smut doesn't really register. And if it does, the viewer feels a bit guilty for interpreting a perfectly ordinary remark that way. But Jo Brand emphasises every innuendo in flashing neon with a metaphorical brass band playing in the background. Boom! Boom! They might as well have booked Basil Brush.
Reality is a derogatory term to many people.
Your definition means that Masterchef and Celebrity Masterchef will be in Reality but Masterchef Pro in UK TV Programmes because the contestants are professionally qualified.
In programmes like Bake Off and Masterchef people LEARN useful skills like cooking and baking. In reality programmes they do pointless 'challenges' usually designed to humiliate them.
I don't want to appear a complete duffer, but I didn't understand the head and shoulders of cake joke. Can anyone explain it?
"its like dinner and desert in one, you have got the head and shoulders of cake"
Its a play on how SOME shampoos are "two in one" (shampoo and conditioner),
However as "Head and Shoulders" does not equate to "two in one", the joke sort of doesn't work, but enough people got it.
....unless I am missing the joke.
The best definition I can come up with that 'a reality show' is one which follows members of the public in and about their daily lives, or at least some staged approximation of that. So Made in Chelsea qualifies, as does that Scrappers show that's on. As would that show about Eddie Stobart drivers for for example. They involve showing 'reality' as in people's day to day existence. Showing someone who is normally a builder larking about in a tent making mini victoria sponges is not 'reality' in so far as it's entirely staged for television and wouldn't happen if the television cameras weren't there. Or at least, it's pretty unlikely to.
There is little 'reality' in GBBO, it's an entirely artificial situation.
In any case though, we're here now. so let's get on with it...
But the Bake Off contestants aren't learning on the show, they are essentially doing a series of challenges, albeit ones that aren't designed to humiliate.
The majority of contestants have at least one bake to do which they have not done before and many will have several. Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry will make suggestions as well as they go around - sure more is said off camera. I am sure most of them will say they have learnt a lot at the end of their period in the competition.
I doubt whether many come away from Big Brother, I'm a Celebrity, TOWIE etc having learnt much or at least nothing useful.
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Sexy man, manly, yet an excellent cook.... ticks all the boxes!
Loved it when he left his pencil behind his ear.
From comments in the media, most current reality programmes seem heavily scripted. Basically using members of the public as actors in a soap opera.