Originally Posted by planets:
“I'm not moving any goal posts. The subtext of my point to Mark was that Bake Off had a very special chemistry between the four of them that made it successful, i have posted that very point previously. The four of them together were successful, Hollywood alone (doing the only version of Bake Off where he was the only one of the quartet there until Mary took over) was a flop.
I'm not moving any goal posts since my original comment i'm just answering completely random questions people are attaching to my posts. My original post was in response to Mark's thoughts about Hollywood's success. I responded, then, because my point was never answered, more and more deflections were brought into the mix which i responded to.
Underlined bit: You seem to be under the mistaken delusion i think that the channel 4 version will be a success, when i have never stated that in any post. What led you to make that massive and incorrect assumption?”
I agree that what makes Bake Off work is the chemistry of all of them. In fact more than that - you have chemistry between Paul and Mary, chemistry between Mel and Sue, chemistry between Mel and Sue & Paul and Mary, and chemistry between Mel and Su and the bakers. All sorts of chemistry.
The point myself and Mark are making is that out of these two shows:
1. Paul's US show
2. Bake Off on C4
The later is likely do considerably better than the former due to a couple of factors:
1. Paul is known already to the UK audience through several years of Bake Off already, which was not the case in the US.
2. Paul is unlikely to get swept up in another workplace romance that irked much of the US audience and so contributed to its poor ratings and demise.
Regarding your underlined bit - you misunderstood I think. I wasn't saying you think that - I was asking if you would think that in the hypothetical circumstance of Paul's US show having been a success?
ie If Paul's show had been a success, would you think that Bake Off on C4 would be a big success
because his US show had been a success?
or
Would you think that Bake Off on C4 would bomb
despite his US show being a success?