This is all front page news in the UK because this is the biggest show on British television. And when I say biggest, I mean bigger than everything, including the Olympics, England football and anything else.
A couple of things worth noting here: - BBC One and ITV are the biggest two networks, and quite simply, switching channels beyond those two will definitely see a fall in ratings if all things remained the same. - Channel 4 is probably about the fourth biggest network in the UK, but although it's a state broadcaster (so not privately owned), it's funded by advertising. - It seems that the production company that owns the rights, Love Productions, may have turned down an even bigger offer from ITV where it wouldn't have fitted. - Love Productions, which created and owns the format, is 70% owned by Sky which in turn is 39% owned by Rupert Murdoch. The biggest thing here is that Channel 4 seemed to have bought the format without securing the talent. As Mark mentions above the two presenters have announced they're quitting, and the pressure will be on to see what the two judges, Paul and Mary, do. Without the talent, C4 has basically bought a large tent in a field, and I would suspect will really struggle to recoup its investment. Oddly enough, which network airs a show is a *big thing* in the UK, and the production company are probably seen as really greedy by the public at large for not doing a deal with the BBC. They may have thought that they had the BBC over a barrel because it's the biggest show on TV, but a tough new funding regime and a need not to be bullied means the BBC clearly played hardball and lost. I suspect that it won't happen, but yes, it would be very easy to reconstitute another competitive cookery show. Indeed Masterchef remains fairly popular on BBC One (with a spinoff on BBC Two) having run in one guise or another for many years. I can, however, seeing all involved getting lots of other shows on the BBC if they don't go to C4. While the BBC is fairly constrained in what it can pay key talent compared with what, say, ITV might pay, there are other benefits. Popular shows like Bake Off see spin-off recipe books become best sellers, and there's lots of money to be made there by the talent. The bigger the show, the more books get sold. It'll be one to watch. Adam (Who met his old boss last week to hear about the new Union Jack service. It's based on the Jack FM format, the rights to which they own in the UK. The difference being that it's not there to compete with local services (this is national), so skews older, and yes, more British. www.unionjack.co.uk where you might be able to listen without being blocked if you're outside the UK) On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:24 AM, David Risner <da...@risner.org> wrote: > I believe the season currently running on BBC1 is the seventh season, as > the sixth season just finished running on PBS here in the states a few > weeks ago. > > Hard to imagine the show continuing without Paul & Mary. I can see it > without Sue & Mel, although I would rather not. Having watched some of the > Australian version which doesn’t have Paul & Mary, I would really hate to > see them go. It just wouldn’t be the same show. > > I wonder if BBC can reconstitute the show with Sue, Mel, Paul, and Mary > with a slightly different format and, of course, a different name. > > I remember Bravo trying to make a replacement for Project Runway when it > jumped ship to Lifetime. It didn’t work too well, but it also didn’t have > any of the PR cast of judges and hosts. > > > > On Sep 13, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > "The Great British Bake-Off," or as it's called on PBS, "The Great > British Baking Show," the world's most civil reality show, will move next > year from the Beeb's primary network BBC1 to Channel 4, the > commercial-but-not-for-profit net that hasn't had a reality hit since "Big > Brother" moved to Channel 5 a few years ago--the current sixth season is > running on the One right now: > > > > http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bbc-lose-british-bake-927930 > > > > Snarky-yet-civil hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc want the show to > stay on the Beeb and have already announced that they will not move with > the show to C4. It is rumoured that judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry > are also against the network switch, which may leave producers Love > Productions to find a whole new cast. (Meanwhile, Union Jack, the digital > radio station created by a bunch of Adam's former mates at Absolute Radio > for the owners of the Jack FM franchise in the UK, which plays nothing but > music by British artists, boasts on its web site that it is "more British > than Mary Berry's soggy bottoms." If you watch the show, you'll get it.) > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... 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