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

love the idea of the twee channel!

Never watched the programme, can't see why I would want to watch people making cakes. Although not as actively painful as the fake emotion of shrieky glum prancing, or the unbearably bad no-talent contests where NOBODY can sing at all. Unfortunately these are the BBC moneymakers because the colonies love the formats and pay a lot for them.

here's to the recorder box, all the classic TV on Watch/Dave/Gold etc and the DVDs!

Last year, I worked in a horrid, noisy place with unruly, badly behaved horrors. GBBO was like my therapy. I used to come home and soothe myself with its gentleness.

This year's is quite boring though.

I loved it, now I'm bored.

Maybe they need to take a break, it's got too big for itself now.

LillianGish, I just like them. They seem nice, I could sit and eat the cakes with them and have a laugh.
I know they won't set the comedy world on fire,but I just enjoy watching them,have done since Late Lunch,.

Dear GBBO Producers

Please ignore all the posters who say Bake Off is boring, or needs spicing up a bit. We like it the way it is. Because it is nice.

If any of you should feel the urge to 'tweak' the format, or contrive some drama because that's what viewers 'want to see', the door to Channel 4 is that way >>>

Kindest regards
AnnPerkins

I second AnnPerkins' post, definitely doesn't need tweaking. I love GBBO as it is.

YABU. It's nice, gives fantastic ideas for baking and cooking, and we have none of the frankly chavvy antics and drama we see in other program. I love genteel, clever and funny image of Britain it gives.

I love GBBO too, as do my DH and adult DD. The gorgeous Tamal is a bonus.

Incidentally, I don't watch Strictly, Sewing Bee, any soaps or any 'reality' TV such as CBB.

YABVU.

I love it and I think part of the charm is that the contestants are nice and don't bitch and fall out wit each other. On the contrary if someone is struggling the others will often rally round to help. Ditto Sewing Bee.

Oh and I can't abide cupcakes and consider shoes to be just something comfortable to walk about in.

GBBO is not a patch on the mother of all TV baking programmes called Farmhouse Kitchen on Yorkshire TV starting in 1971 with a lady called Dorothy Sleightholme and guest bakers which included Mary Berry stood at a kitchen table.

Viewers wrote in with recipes and they were tried out on the programme.

It was pure comfort TV and very informative. I loved watching it as a child and still have the book from the series called The Complete Farmhouse Kitchen Cookbook It really is a traditional English cake making bible and my copy is brown pages and falling apart as I use it more than any other recipe book when I am baking.

Sadly Dorothy Sleightholme died in a car crash but another lady carried it on into the 1980s. It ran for nearly two decades. GBBO take note!

I like GBBO and Sewing Bee. I hate Big Brother and X Factor. I also can't stand Come Dine with Me. I like the cooking aspect but the people they have on are often awful and trying too hard to be crazy.

I do like America's Next Top Model because it is just crazy car crash TV that makes no sense whatsoever.

Aww I love Tamal though!

Fratelli Yes, he's really adorable as well as being eye-candy. That's quite a rare combination.

The only live tv I watch is Bake Off and Sewing Bee. Please BBC don't ever change them.

I usually enjoy it because I love making cakes. There have been some amazing cakes on it and some brilliant comedy moments and disasters which make me feel better about mine!

However this season has been super dull. I still can't remember anyones name (except Paul and that's only because of the awkward "hi paul" "hi paul" thing every week) No one has had a meltdown, no one has had a gigantic spectacular disaster, no one has stand out memorable personality. They all seem to merge together. AllI can remember from what anyone has made is that epic lion face bread....

Sewing Bee has been ditched I think.

I don't follow t.v programmes but come dine with me has to be the best hands down.

Always remember a woman dishing out back handed comments/complimets everytime she opened her mouth.
The other faces were always like

squoosh - Sewing Bee has been ditched I think.
Awwwwwwww!

I can't see any confirmation online either way of whether or not there'll be a fourth series of Sewing Bee. I can't see why they'd cancel it, the last series seemed to go down very well, and they've sold the format overseas.

I don't like cupcakes or shoes. I don't like cakes and I don't bake.

I love GBBO. The gentleness, the greenery (admittedly am an expat), Sue Perkins, the Englishness of it all, the way the contestants love what they're doing. No one mentions the word "journey".

I really really want bbc-twee to exist now! It would be the queen of gentle easy watching TV. Gbbo, a program about crochet/knitting, more baking, something about wildlife (probably not with Bill oddie through, or Kate humble as I just want her to brush her hair) how to create stuff from other stuff you have in your house so it becomes useful stuff (but still twee) interspersed with a few amusing animal clips where a kitten falls over a bumblebee or such. Any other program suggestions?!

I love GBBO and I quite like this year. They seem to be really testing them with the technical challenges Someone mentioned Great British Menu which I'm also watching. If you want a clichéd dull group of chefs then watch that -and they are professional chefs! Boring on about the WI with the token 30 something hipster WI members banging on about allotments and chutneys! Lucky for them its a slow telly season

I don't understand the appeal really I don't. You can't taste the cakes, you can't smell the cakes. Bakery seems I'll suited to the medium of TV. Instead you have to watch Sue Barker's Nan and a walking midlife crisis eat cakes whilst Mel and Sue (from the 1990s) gurn and make single entendres that would have been cut from a Confessions film as too obvious.

Agreed. Also loathe Hollywood