Originally Posted by Janet43:
“And which cult personality would that be?
Can't be Paul Hollywood - a master baker who advises on what went wrong and what should have been done.
Mary Berry? An 80 year old grandmother who knows more about baking than most of the population.
Mel and Sue? A couple of comedians who link the show and encourage and put the contestants at ease.
Can't see any cult figures here - just skilled people doing their job.
All of whom educate us in some way in a very pleasant manner.”
And yet people seem to think the show starts and ends with them.
It can't work both ways - either they tune in for the presenters and judges (which makes it about personalities), or they tune in for the idea of a competitive baking show (and so it shouldn't matter who the presenters and judges are).
Originally Posted by Glawster2002:
“Of course it is not a ridiculous thing to say. change three of the four presenters/judges and, by default, the nature of the programme changes. It cannot be the same.”
The format remains the same - a competitive baking show.
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“It may do, however when Birds of a Feather moved to ITV it kept the three stars, Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph. If two of them had left and were replaced, would it have been so successful? People took to it because of the familiarity of the three stars. GBBO on C4 doesn't have that luxury.”
The comparison with Birds of a Feather extends only to the idea of a show being a success when moving from the BBC; as a drama, it would have been absurd to change the lead actors.
For The Great British Bake Off, the core of the show is that it's a competitive baking show with a defined structure. It doesn't start and end with whoever happens to present or judge it.
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“The most recent example we have of a programme being relaunched with an entirely new presenting team but keeping to a similar format is the last series of Top Gear, which was a disaster.”
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“It is also interesting to note that people aren't exactly shouting from the rooftops that they would like to present/judge GBBO on C4, probably because they are only too aware of what a poisoned chalice it could turn out to be.”
Now that
is a ridiculous thing to say. It's up to Channel 4 to look for presenters, not for presenters to try and whore themselves out. In any case, anyone saying they were interested would likely be lynched by the baying mob who think TV starts and ends with the BBC.
Originally Posted by Glawster2002:
“No, they tune in for a gentle baking show where there are no egos, no 'must win' mentality, the person who overall was the best with the challenges that week is voted 'best baker' and the worst leaves the show.”
And you know it won't be like this on Channel 4 because...
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“It isn't a difficult concept to understand but as you obviously don't like it or watch it, why does it matter so much to you?
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Why is it so difficult for you to understand that nobody knows what the programme will be like on Channel 4? Thus far people have simply being making stuff up.
And for the record, I do watch it. And I intend to watch it on Channel 4.