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…
The BBC may have lost The Great British Bake Off to Channel 4 but it is now cooking up a new baking competition.
The British public broadcaster has ordered Celebration from Bristol-based production company Hungry Gap Productions. The show is set to air on BBC Two and emerged after putting out a casting call for…
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…
Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher is among the celebrities to have signed up for a charity version of The Great British Bake Off.
Hatcher, who also starred in James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, is joined by the likes of Spandau Ballet's Martin Kemp and Not The Nine O'Clock News star Griff Rhys Jones in The Great…
The Great British Bake Off is a ratings hit in its return on its new network Channel 4.
The series 8 premiere drew an average of 6.5 million total viewers (30.4% share) from 8-9:15 PM Tuesday, peaking with 7.7 million total viewers/34.6% share. That was Channel 4’s biggest overnight audience since the 8.3 million for…
Mary Berry will pop on her judging hat once again as she returns to the kitchen for BBC One. The former Great British Bake Off judge is set to lead the charge to find Britain’s Best Cook in a new series hosted by Strictly Come Dancing‘s Claudia Winkleman. The order for the eight-part competition show comes a little…
The Great British Bake Off, the hit UK show which last year moved from the BBC to Channel 4 after seven seasons, has announced the recipe for its new show. Brit baker and GBBO stalwart Paul Hollywood will now be joined by cook Prue Leith, who will replace much-loved Mary Berry in the new show.
Meanwhile, offbeat…
Season 4 of the BBC’s The Great British Baking Show will head to PBS on June 16, set to air Friday nights at 9 PM ET. PBS made the announcement today during TCA in Pasadena, where it also said it has committed to a fifth season of the popular amateur baker competition series.
The most recent season was the most viewed…
In its last regular season hurrah on the BBC, The Great British Bake Off scored its biggest overnight audience ever with an average 14M viewers watching the finale. The peak of 14.8M came just before 9PM local time on Wednesday as the winner was awarded the coveted engraved cake plate prize for what included a…
Rolling Stone has sold a 49% stake of the iconic American pop culture magazine to Singapore-based social music company BandLab Technologies. Wenner Media, the magazine's parent company, announced the deal over the weekend. Terms have not been disclosed but the investment does not include ownership in Wenner Media. The…
The Great British Bake Offis exiting the BBC after seven seasons and heading to Channel 4.
The news comes after the hit show’s production company Love Productions revealed it was unable to reach a renewal agreement with the BBC after more than a year of negotiations. Channel 4 confirmed the news on Twitter:
We're…
Season 7 of BBC One’s The Great British Bake Off got cooking on Wednesday with a sweet new record. Watched by an average 10.4M viewers in the 8PM slot, it drew a 47.5 share. The peak audience for the cooking competition that has risen to phenomenon status in the UK was 11.2M last night. That tops the network’s…
