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Channel 4 has renewed its Great British Bake Off deal and will run the show for another three years. The agreement keeps Love Productions’ beloved factual entertainment format on screens until at least 2024, at which point it will enter its 15th season, along with companion offerings Bake Off: An Extra Slice, Junior Ba…

Love Productions has wrapped filming on Season 11 of The Great British Bake Off after production was badly delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Filming has taken place over the past six weeks at a top-secret location in the UK, with the usual months-long production schedule significantly condensed down to overcome…

The Great British Bake Off is now two weeks back into production and will likely return to television later this year, according to producer Love Productions’ parent company Sky Studios. The baking competition series, which is shown by Channel 4 in the UK and Netflix in the U.S. (where it is known as The Great British…

EXCLUSIVE: Comcast’s European broadcaster Sky has taken full control of Love Productions, the producer behind Channel 4 hit The Great British Bake Off. Sky took a 70.41% stake in Love Productions in 2014, and now the pay-TV operator has acquired the remaining 29.59% of shares in the Richard McKerrow-founded outfit, as…

EXCLUSIVE: Love Productions has said that it is going to delay filming on the 11th season of The Great British Bake Off as the UK grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. The Channel 4 show was due to go into production next month in its famous tent at Welford Park in Newbury, but producers want to make sure that the…

EXCLUSIVE: Love Productions, the British production company behind The Great British Bake Off, has appointed Condé Nast Entertainment executive vice presidents Joe LaBracio and Al Edgington to lead its U.S. operation. LaBracio and Edgington will be become co-presidents of Love Productions USA, effectively replacing Kev…

UPDATE, MONDAY 28 OCTOBER: As a number of readers pointed out, the Paul Hollywood joke did appear in the Netflix version. Love Productions has since told me that it was not removed in time for the Friday launch, but Netflix updated the show over the weekend and the joke no longer appears in the episode. The makers of T…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has said it is bringing back Love Productions format The Great Pottery Throw Down after it was canceled by the BBC last year. A Channel 4 spokeswoman told Deadline that The Great Pottery Throw Down will broadcast next year on both its main channel and More4. Casting is already well underway, while…

The Great British Bake Off will remain on Channel 4 in the UK until 2021 after the broadcaster and Love Productions agreed a new two-series deal. The broadcaster has also commissioned Junior Bake Off for the first time, extending the format for younger contestants and audiences. A younger skewing version previously…

Nature can be terrifying, and Nat Geo Wild knows it. The cable net today announced a greenlight for Dead by Dawn, which it describes as the first “horror nature” series. The six-parter, which hails from The Walking Dead‘s Skybound Entertainment along with Love Productions, showcases the horror that is reality in the…

European pay-TV giant Sky may be in the middle of a bidding war between 21st Century Fox and Comcast but CEO Jeremy Darroch is still keeping his eye out for its own acquisitions. Speaking after its full-year financial results, Darroch said that it would continue its strategy to invest in Silicon Valley start-ups and…

Netflix and Amazon may not have been able to cook up a deal to snap up The Great British Bake Off last year when it moved from the BBC to Channel 4 but the SVOD services are still fighting over the cake competition. Netflix has secured the first seven seasons of the BBC show, which featured Mary Berry and Mel and Sue…