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

All this providing they don't really spoil us and give it the Keith Lemmon treatment.

The lovely thing about GBBO is that it is so good natured. The worst thing to ever happen was ice-cream-gate, where the bloke shoved his baked alaska in the bin and stormed out.

I don't think I'll be watching it on C4 - they'll turn it into the bake-off scrap-fest fight night

Least it didn't go to 5

'Can't Bake We'll Take It Away'

'The Great Benefit Bake Off'

'Sex Cakes Ruined My Life'

YES! It's not ITV! LINK

I'll still watch it, I record it anyway so I can fast forward the history bit and as much of the embarrassingly abysmal Mel and Sue so on c4

Oops on c4 I'll just fast forward the ads too.

The only way they can keep the format the same and within an hour, with breaks, is to cut all the history stuff, all the bits of contestants talking to camera about how they're feeling, all the deliberation bits between judges in order to make time for 3 bakes a week.

Which wouldn't be keeping it the same at all. Paul Hollywood has already confrmed he'll be hosting a car/travel show for BBC2, and Mel, Sue and Mary aren't automatically part of the package either. Mel and Sue are a good fit for Channel 4, not sure about Mary. Bake Off without Mary and Paul isn't Bake Off though.

The only way they can keep the format the same and within an hour, with breaks

They might put in an extra 11 minutes of padding and have an hour and a half show.

There's been a celebrity version already hasn't there for comic relief? So not something C4 have dreamt up.

And what HAS happened to ITV over recent years? Their programming has become so poor. They do a handful of decent dramas (quite like Lewis, Broadchurch, Vera and Downton Abbey) but apart from that their schedule is stuffed with brain-dead nonsense.

What happened to ITV producing quality programming? It's all "talent shows", Simon Cowell, Ant and Dec, scripted reality like that dreadful Essex thing. Just nothing which requires a brain cell to watch.

Sue's tweeted it's a BBC show I think - sounds like Mel and Sue might not stick with it. Such a shame. Once the original winning combination changes, it's just not the same and they should stop making it instead of milking it for every penny.

Channel 4 are allowed product placement aren't they?

Oh dear, Kenwood blenders, coke glasses, ariston fridges... The camera lingering on them for far too long.

What happened to ITV producing quality programming?

No idea but they screwed up Poirot massively.

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I'm baffled by all the posters saying it will become full of sob stories and bullshit.

It's already chocka - which is probably why C4 want it.

Channel 4 is just as bad. It will be ruined beyond redemption. The constant recapping after every ad break, the 'journeys', the 'personalities', the childish alliteration in the narration 'Crafty Candice's lardsome loaves are looking a little overdone!' 😡 (You can pack that in an' all, Vassos Alexander 😡)

I'm quite upset.

I think that they've shot themselves in the foot by taking it to C4. There's no way it will be as popular. Apparently Love Productions wanted c.4x more than they are currently being paid by the BBC for the show......but "it's not about the money". Right.

I agree, Panic, it was Love Production's disingenuous excuse: "really saddened by this outcome because we always wanted to stay on the BBC ... this has never been about who might write the biggest cheque but about where we can find the best home for Bake Off..."

Mary will be 83 by the time it surfaces at Ch 4 so I imagine she will gracefully retire from the programme, I kind of hope the others do as well as I just can't imagine it being as good. There was a DM story a few weeks ago saying that both Mary and Paul were refusing to move from the BBC in a bid to keep the programme there (apologies for Daily Mail link but let's hope there is a grain of truth in it).

There's a petition. These things hardly ever work, but goodness knows it's worth a try.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-the-great-british-bake-off-on-the-bbc#signature-form

It's a done deal, the contract has been signed. A petition is not going to make a blind of difference and it's madness to think it might.

Just vote with your feet and don't watch it. Agree that Mary is probably sitting at home thinking she's too old for all this bollocks and BBC will be falling over themselves to give her a nice gentle baking show which she can do on her own terms.

I wondered if they knew this was likely to go, and that's why Paul hasn't really bothered addressing speculation about how he'd keep doing GBBO as well as potentially hosting Top Gear.

I haven't watched all the series but it seems insane for the BBC to lose this. It's definitely one of the most universally popular programmes that they have.

I don't think the BBC had a choice. They are having to make £250 million of cuts and just couldn't afford the price Love (owned by Murdoch let's remember!) were demanding.

They better not lose the Great British Sewing Bee either.

It's pure greed from the production company. I'm actually inexplicably sad about the whole thing, which isn't like me!

I don't see how Bake Off can be on the same channel that gives us delights like Naked Attraction, and not be ruined. I'll be amazed if the current line up stay.

The only ITV programme I watched in recent years was the first series of Broadchurch. I've been recording Victoria though, after catching it by chance over the Bank Holiday and it not being terrible. Other than that, it's all a pile o' shite.

I just hope they don't try to make it "edgy" just bake the cakes, crouch in front of the oven and have a little weep if your showstopper falls over. That is literally all I want from Bake Off.

Not bullshit C4 "born edgy" naked one armed war zone marathon baking.