I did remind you in the very post you just snipped.

Are you not able to recall a post you made not a few hours ago or the post you have just read and snipped, therefore deliberately missing out the very claim you made, which in turn led you to say 'I'm sure you'll remind me'

It is worth reminding people that this company was behind Benefits Street (demonising those on benefits) plus Immigration Street. The residents of Immigration Street certainly weren't pleased to see Love Productions:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-28667996

But given I was replying to

And it increasingly looks like they will keep all the "talent" while Channel 4 gets a nice tent.

With 'they' being the Bbc.. Why would the Bbc be interested in keeping any of the 'talent'?

(oh, and check skp20040's comment as well..)

Nonsense as in you said people should remember the BBC poached them from Channel 4, they left Channel 4 in 1999 , they returned for a year in 2003 and then got the Bake Off job in 2010 working for ITV in between and after , so how that translates to poached is anyone's guess.

C4 could hire Denise Welch and Paris Lees to present the Great British Bake Off.

But given neither of them with their BBC2 sitcom could beat Stefan 'Don't It Make You Feel Good' Dennis or Julie Kavner in ratings this year, despite the 10pm slot, the Versailles lead-in and all the publicity Paris has had and Denise, her ex-husband and 2 sons have had (and in the latter's case, continue to have- no doubt that lot will have more after The Mercury Prize then) probably a recipe for disaster.

There is something rather sad about an adult that would rather troll than acknowledge a simple correction.

I'll just leave this little nugget here

Enough All Ready

It's an open forum Hamlet. If I or anyone else posts something that it factually untrue in order to bolster a personal view or further a personal agenda or just plain old making it up on the spot, it is only fair that other posters can correct it is it not?

That jEllied eEl wants to play silly buggers is all par for the course

They could even hire Chris Evans. There's not exactly a shortage of presenters, but as Top Gear found out, hiring the right ones can be tricky. I think it's unlikely C4 would have bought the show without having alternate presenters in mind though.

Geez! There was an Immigration Street programme? Never knew that.

So I'm just an immature self centred egotistical jackass.

No. Not at all. I'm not sure how you arrived at that from my post.

Yes...and the residents of Derby Road, Southampton (where the filming took place) made their feelings known to Love Productions during a public meeting and also via missiles and stones during the filming of the 'show'. The residents were concerned that the show would damage community cohesion which currently exists. Love Productions ignored all this, putting profits before people.

Some background history with clips:
TUC campaign against 'Immigration Street' on BBC South news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnCGY4aSEcQ

Southampton Doesn't Give A Warm Welcome To Love Productions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-5xtBYUl68

They've bought the world's most expensive broom but by the time they get it both the handle and the brush have been swapped and it's no longer a special magic broom, just a rather ordinary one that can't quite get into the corners properly.

Brilliant mate. Love it.

The reaction about the BBC losing this show is laughable and over the top. You would think someone had died

Yep, and the number of threads about it is unbelievable,

They have. It was called The Great British Bake Off.

Oh no its the end of the world!.... meanwhile.... you can actually still watch it on C4

It won't be the same, so it's a 'no' from me. I will follow the BBC's replacement.

I don't want to watch it on a tv channel with adverts though. The Great British Bake off is a perfect progam at 8pm on a Wednesday evening on BBC 1 and for that hour it is just relaxing. It won't be like that on Channel 4 with the ads

Rather than jumping in 570-odd posts in, if you had read many of the earlier posts, you would understand that, by moving to C4 and losing the two presenters, you would understand that the feel and look of the show will have to change.

One will be able to watch C4s version of it, as it will evidently not be the same as the current version.

This once innovative channel of the 80's and 90's has been reduced to stealing 'GBBO' from the BBC! I know that this may sound a bit radical and controversial to the big-wigs at C4 but why not save the money on 'GBBO' and spend it on new drama and comedy. Just a thought!!!

in fairness, GBBO is a rating juggernaut, and is posting ratings that VERY few shows can achieve these days. No new drama or comedy can do that simply by throwing money at it.

Every TV channels in the world would kill for a localised version of Bake Off, that is equally succesful, its demos may skew a little older than some channels would like but its no means a deal breaker.