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Old 13-09-2016, 16:59
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In that case I feel that Love Productions have shot themselves in the foot. Mel and Sue did the very successful Late Lunch for Channel 4 years ago, so for them not to be prepared to move is quite telling. I am also presuming that the BBC won't be commissioning any other series of Great British Sewing Bee either, as that is owned by Love Productions as well.
They were my question mark, because of their previous association with the channel. IMO, Mary stays with the BBC, and Love Productions are left with only one of the quartet - and Paul's meanness doesn't work without the other 3 to balance him out. The new show has a lot of problems right now, and getting the new presenters to work is a pretty big piece of the puzzle to get right.

I'm gutted that they're leaving the show, but I'm absolutely sure they've made the right decision. This is looking like a terrible decision for the production company to ink a huge price tag deal without securing the moving pieces!
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:00
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The Mel and Sue statement in full

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Old 13-09-2016, 17:03
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Brilliant statement;

"We're not going with the dough."

That line makes it very difficult for the remaining 2 judges to announce their continued association with LP, and make it sound anything but money related!
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:04
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Brilliant statement;

"We're not going with the dough."

That line makes it very difficult for the remaining 2 judges to announce their continued association with LP, and make it sound anything but money related!
Good point!
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:06
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Celebrity version? It only shows that people at C4 have no clue. BBC manages over 10 million viewers with normal people, the charm of the programme is that it's normal people. Yes, they select them to cover wide demographic, but I really don't mind, it shows that you can find people passionate about baking everywhere. I don't want to watch a selection of wannabes, hasbeens, and neverbeens hogging the limelight on another reality show.
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:09
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Celebrity version? It only shows that people at C4 have no clue. BBC manages over 10 million viewers with normal people, the charm of the programme is that it's normal people. Yes, they select them to cover wide demographic, but I really don't mind, it shows that you can find people passionate about baking everywhere. I don't want to watch a selection of wannabes, hasbeens, and neverbeens hogging the limelight on another reality show.
I do genuinely think they figured that a charity related celeb show - it would be done for Stand Up To Cancer - would engender a bit of goodwill for the change of channel, before launching the show proper the next year. This is all looking like a horrible miscalculation - I get that they have no one to replace Mel and Sue yet, but there are going to be gaping holes in the show concept for quite some time to come. There's a lot of good feeling towards the show and it's current presenters - without them, its a very empty shell, and sticking 'charity' stickers all over it may be the literal definition of a band aid approach!
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:11
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I worry that on Channel 4 Bake Off will become a bitch fest and the friendly and helpfulness of the contestants will be lost
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:14
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Well done Mel and Sue

Barbed statement too as it will make Paul and Mary look greedy if they return.

Perhaps Love Productions will go broke when it crashes horrendously on Channel 4
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:16
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No Mel = no me.
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:18
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Brilliant quote on the BBC News Channel " looks like Channel 4 have bought a very expensive tent"!
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:20
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Well said Mel & Sue ... Who on earth will they get to host? Many lessons to be learned from Top Gear !
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:30
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I'm surprised to hear so many people giving up on the show I am disappointed that it's leaving the BBC where it sat very well but sadly it's a done deal.

Have any of the presenters said they won't be moving with the show? They'll be doing the same job but no doubt for a much larger pay packet. Of course there will be advertisements but they'll be shown in between each round, they won't interfere with the baking bits. It may be a disaster, who knows what tomorrow brings but I'm certainly willing to give it a try.
How can you say that adverts won't interfere with the baking bits? We'd be losing at least 20 minutes from the BBC show
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:32
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I don't know if i will be able to watch the bake off tomorrow knowing that my once favorite programs is going to be such a change and a mess next year. Its going to die a very slow and painful death. Whoever is boss of LP does not have any idea in business.
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:39
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Wonder who will host ? I can see the Sunday Brunch presenters looking to get involved (can't abide Tim Lovejoy though). It's a poison chalice though, and you would think most presenters will look at what's just happened with Top Gear, and avoid presenting the first series, like the plague. Kirsty Allsop would have me turning off ... As would Davina.
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:41
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Wonder who will host ? I can see the Sunday Brunch presenters looking to get involved (can't abide Tim Lovejoy though). It's a poison chalice though, and you would think most presenters will look at what's just happened with Top Gear, and avoid presenting the first series, like the plague. Kirsty Allsop would have me turning off ... As would Davina.
It wouldn't surprise me if that awful Sarah Millican hosted
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:42
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Fantastic news that Mel and Sue will not be presenting the show when it moves to Channel 4. Now all we need is for Paul and Mary to do the same.

Congrats to Love Productions. I can't wait to see Alan Carr and Kirstie Allsopp presenting the Great British Sunken Cake
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:43
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Good on Mel and Sue for not selling their souls to the devil.

I think the sticking point was that Love didn't include them in any negotiations and that they found out the same time as everyone else.

They have worked for C4 before and I'm sure they'd have agreed to move if this had been done less underhand.

LP's pure greed will cost them in the long run IMO.
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:53
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Yes, good for Mel and Sue.
Come on Paul and Mary; quit while you're ahead and do the right thing.

Unless, of course, Love Productions made sure they would be willing to move before they put in the bid. If so, I fear Paul and Mary may have made an error of judgement.
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:55
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I thought that I would not mind it if moved channels but giving it more thought, Channel 4 dumb down almost everything they show. So it will be Bake Off with fake tans, fake boobs and contestants selling stories to the papers before they even bake anything.
I'm out
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Old 13-09-2016, 17:57
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Random thought here but what's to stop the BBC making their own version? Could they? Or would they have signed an agreement when they took the show that they can't make a rival version?
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Old 13-09-2016, 18:03
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Should be a campaign for them to be on the next Honours List, 'For services to decency and against greed'.
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Old 13-09-2016, 18:07
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Yes, good for Mel and Sue.
Come on Paul and Mary; quit while you're ahead and do the right thing.

Unless, of course, Love Productions made sure they would be willing to move before they put in the bid. If so, I fear Paul and Mary may have made an error of judgement.
We'll have to wait and see. They may have gotten an offer they could not refuse But I imagine they either have yearly contracts or they will end at the same time as BBC rights for the programme. And even if not, if Mary wanted to get out she could claim health problems. It would not look good C4 harassing old frail woman.
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Old 13-09-2016, 18:07
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Yes, good for Mel and Sue.
Come on Paul and Mary; quit while you're ahead and do the right thing.

Unless, of course, Love Productions made sure they would be willing to move before they put in the bid. If so, I fear Paul and Mary may have made an error of judgement.
Hi all.

I don't post here, but have watched GBBO since the very start.

I have to say that for me, Mel and Sue make the show, much more then Paul and Mary. Mostly because they are the ones interacting with the contestants, joking with them, supporting them, encouraging them. They even cry at times when sending someone home, they care. They have chemistry with them and Mary and Paul and you cannot just replicate that.
Mary and Paul do not engage with the contestants, obviously for good reasons, I saw they said they try to stay aloof from them, so as not to have any bias towards them. So for me, even if they get Mary and Paul, the show will not be the same show at all.
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Old 13-09-2016, 18:08
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Yes, good for Mel and Sue.
Come on Paul and Mary; quit while you're ahead and do the right thing.

Unless, of course, Love Productions made sure they would be willing to move before they put in the bid. If so, I fear Paul and Mary may have made an error of judgement.
If Mary and Paul do go then everyone will just say they have also been greedy and being paid a lot of money
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Old 13-09-2016, 18:09
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This is the exact type of thing BBC should do.

Once a show is popular enough for a terrestrial channel to pay the "Public good" need to make it ceases.

It can now use the £15mil to develop new programs.

Eastenders, Dr Who, Strictly, Match of the Day etc could all go the same way. Or put them on a digital BBC commercial channel funded by adverts.
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