Originally Posted by welshfoxy:
“Anyone get the feeling there will almost be a protest at the Channel 4 'version' of Bake Off and C4 will be well and truly humiliated in the launch ratings and onwards? I have this feeling people won't even tune in for curiosity, not on the night anyway, and said their goodbyes yesterday!”
I get the feeling that no matter what Channel 4 do it won't be enough. I think the goodwill for it ends when it ends on BBC1 this Christmas. I won't be watching it on Channel 4....and I say that as somebody that didn't really bother with the Comic Relief versions/other versions as they didn't have the whole team in place.
Originally Posted by Jay Lee:
“I do appreciate what people are saying about Bake Off collapsing on Channel 4 but I do have a feeling that it will be more resilient than we're giving it credit for. I'm not a huge devotee of the show but whenever I watch it, it's the contestants and the general formula that seem intrinsic to its success rather than Mel and Sue as the presenters or Mary as a judge. It's a different beast to something like Top Gear, where Clarkson, Hammond and May and the dynamics between them pretty much constituted the programme itself.”
It's the contestants but also the contestants interacting with the judges and presenters. Mel & Sue walking around joking with contestants. It would be like I'm A Celebrity without Ant & Dec linking the bits between clips or hosting the show in general.