AIBU to think that if ITV gets GBBO, it will ruin it?

[Libitina]

We'll have sob stories galore from the contestants and adverts every two minutes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37344292

15 minutes of adverts, whole thing split into four not three sections, people who can't bake to save their lives (like CDWM but baking), and engineered rows between contestants.

I'm out.

Won't watch it if it's on ITV. Would consider it on Channel 4. ITV is too low-brow, too commercial, too focused on audience votes, sob stories, dumbing it down and blimmin talent shows run by Simon Cowell.

GBBO, brought to you by Jus-Rol! No more soggy bottoms!!

I'm completely gutted. Netflix would be okay but ITV and all the adverts would be awful.

Gutted! I love bake off and it's currently charming and free of sob stories, don't want it to get full of ads and "Doris is baking these biscuits in memory of her dead goldfish but Beryl is allergic to seafood will she sabotage?! Shock twist! Cat love Maureen spiked the fish with catnip and let her fifteen cats into the tent"

I've just tried to find the e-mail address for Love Productions but it is not on their website, they are on Twitter which I'm not may have to join to express my extreme dissatisfaction with this move!

According to something in today's Guardian, BSkyB own 70% of Love Productions. So Sky 1 perhaps.

Not sure that's any better, TBH.

Dermot O'Bleary to host it. Pant and Dec giggling on the side lines.

James I-Cant-Present-Without-Reading-The-Autocue Martin as guest presenter

[clutches pearls] [runs for the hills]

We had an Irish version on a channel with ads and it was crap. Because of the ad breaks, there was only time for two challenges per episode, so signature and technical, or technical and showstopper. ITV would ruin it if they did the same.

emotions have a look on linkedin for people who work in positions of power there maybe?

possibly extreme

ITV,,,,,,,no no no! None starter for me, I wouldn't even bother to watch .

Thanks Every I'll do that, I might be getting a tad over invested!

Lots of bitching about it on Twitter, nobody thinks GBBO leaving the Beeb is a positive move.

Sob stories, scripted disasters, and having to go to the judge's homes for audition stages

Like any program on ITV, we will record it or pause it long enough to watch it and skip all the adverts.

YANBU

I'd love it to be on Netflix but doubt I'd bother on itv.

This is the worst news I've heard all day. I love GBBO and it won't be the same. It never is. Bargainhunt was never the same after it moved from daytime to primetime

Well this news has fucking ruined my day. It will no doubt go to Sky which I refuse to pay for as it extortionate and basically just one massive advert.

If it goes to Amazon/Netflix and keeps the same line up of presenters I'd continue to watch but if it's ploughed with ads it will be shit.

I will refuse to watch on ITV also.
We'd have to put up with a terrible 'competition' and reminders to enter it every 10 mins too.

Terrible news. Shame on the production company for selling out.

FFS. I wonder if it would go to Amazon or Netflix à la Clarkson and co? If it was on Amazon or Netflix I would probably still watch it, provided they don't mess with the formula. ITV, C4 or Sky 1 - it will be shit. 30 minutes of baking, 30 mins of adverts and recaps and sob stories.

The only thing I am currently watching on ITV is Victoria, and I watch it on a Monday on catch up so I don't see the ads. Watched Downton in the same way.

ITV could completely disappear from my television tomorrow and I wouldn't miss it at all.

Don't the versions of it in other countries only have two bakes a week rather than three in order to make room for adverts?

If they introduce phone voting, I'm out.

If they introduce phone voting, I'm out.

Uurrgghh, that's so disappointing. Endless lengthy ad breaks and low rent slabs a-go-go, I reckon.