Bake off - the most BORING programme in the world

[BrendaandEddie]

Yup - i liked it, I really did. But this series - DULLISIMO
recipes odd and crap, personalities DULL and the minute the contestants started talking to camera.....

BOG OFF BAKE OFF

AIBU

And pubes

I don't like watching real people on TV at all. It irks me :). Can't standing baking, cooking, gardening programmes in particular - I don't really get the attraction in watching people do things that I consider chores. I'd no more get enjoyment from watching people bake than I would from watching people iron.

Episode one - everyone is fine with one another
Episode two - sausage off competition at breakfast time
Episode three - bitchfest behind the camera, drunkenness at dinner time
Episode four - alcohol withdrawal, regret, hatred, jealousy
Episode five - Armageddon

There's always a couple from Blackpool, a gay couple, a posh couple, a mad cat lady

I'm talking about four in a bed. Not bake off.
There are no pubes or mad cat ladies in bake off

Owllady four in a bed, love it!

What's dttb please?

I don't like this seasons GBBO but I find the comments here a bit harsh

wiggles - they're (supposedly) talented artists, they're not just mixing flour, butter, sugar, eggs and baking for 30 minutes. It's supposed to be all about their imagination and skills and being amazed at their creativity.

Yanbu - but I've never liked it.

Much prefer 'come dine with me', at least that's funny.

Of course YABU...it is nice TV. Recipes have been a little odd this time I agree but I like it still. I also like the sewing one.
I am not wild or crazy and I cannot abide cupcakes

Well yes but the dullness and predictability of Bake Off is part of the point, isn't it. It's 100% comfort telly for when it's raining outside and you've had a crap day at work.

I always get a bit when they try to introduce manufactured drama - 'ooh has Ian taken his meringue out of the oven too early?' FFS no one cares, we just want to look at nice cakes.

Don't tell the bride

Ooh Come Dine With Me is masterful TV.

Actually I love bakeoff. There's something about the gentleness, the passive/aggressive Mary n Paul dynamic, the Mel and Sue whimsy that works for me.

BUT this series is a bit of a let down - mostly due to casting (all a bit blah) and the struggle to find a new angle - the technical challenges are getting ludicrous.

The year that Brendan, James & John made the final was peak bakeoff for me. Brendan was a reality tv makers dream.

I like it i dont like cupcakes or shoes though

Thanks owllady I have heard of it don't think ive ever watched it though. Watching Rush at the moment, even with the bushy sideburns James Hunt is very easy on the eye.

I like bake off. This is my first series though so I have no comparison.

I like shoes, but cupcakes can kiss my arse, I like a full and proper cake where I can choose my own large serving size.

Turkish bake off looks much more fun...

www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/the-master-baker#.okD8XLn1J

wigglesrock I love to watch people iron because it means I'm not doing it! Never liked GBBO.

WhatARacquet same reason I go to a bakery for my buns and cakes

What Irene said. The dullness is the whole point. It's like that BBC 4 'Slow TV' thing where they had programmes like the one where they just filmed an entire canal journey in real time with a camera on the prow of a narrowboat. No voiceover, no human interest, no paternity tests, just hours of water and the occasional lock or duck.

GBBO is like that. Nice people make cakes. Over and over. I find it soothing. Even the eliminations are a bit like musical chairs with toddlers, where everyone is trying hard to make sure little Otto isn't upset.

I can't stand GBBO. I watched the very first episode of the first series, thought it was a load of shit and haven't bothered since. I don't understand the hype about it.

I love GBBO. It's refreshingly different from the bore off that is Xfactor, BGT and even Strictly. Other competition shows are very similar, always a couple of knuckle heads, the 'naice one', the bitchy backstabber - sometimes it's nice to remember people can get along, and not just to gain public/group favour.

Having said that, there is always one person every year that grates on me with Bake Off, usually because they're an over confident smuggy smuggiton. Ian .

To be honest I do find it rather formulaic so I just cant summon up the energy to watch it.

The problem is the baking does rather fall into the background and the 'personalities' of the presenters and contestants seem to be rather more important.

I love baking. I can knock out cakes, tarts, bread without much effort and I want to see really epic baking - not the tears, tantrums and tiaras bit.

Message to producers!

GBBO should be like Gardeners World was when Percy Thrower presented it in 1973. Simpler the better. I want to see real baking and good honest advice from good presenters who know their stuff and can explain why a particular cake was a disaster so all us amateur bakers can benefit at home. We have all been there sweating over a chocolate ganache that refuses to stay on the cake - we know the pain. Just give us some good advice and let us appreciate the great baking going on.

I've never been absolutely gripped by GBBO. But I do happen to know (and know very well) one of this year's contestants. Which makes a bit of a difference. I am surprised at their progress, mind.

The trouble with Come Dine With Me is that it's been going so long you can easily spot the formula, particularly which one they've chosen to be the controversial one. And the sequence where they all go off snooping round the host's bedroom is just painful.

DH has discovered a seam of programmes on Quest or Pick or something where a couple of rather sad men go poking around in people's sheds finding ancient bits of machinery, buy them, take them home and spend hours restoring them, then sell them at no profit at all. If you think GBBO is boring you should look at those, you just don't know what boring is till you've done that.

Every week we put it on and sit down as a family to watch it and every week it becomes back ground noise. It just doesn't hold our attention any more . Ten minutes in we start discussing something else , homework appears or the iPhone's come out . I think GBBO is becoming a bit boring .