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GBBO back Channel 4 Tuesday 21st Sept!

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/09/2021 17:04

Hurrah! That is all.

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MrsFin · 16/10/2021 23:04

Tom Allen ruins Bake Off Professionals too.

absolutelynotfabulous · 17/10/2021 09:26

I don't mind TA - it's the guests I can't stand. What is the point of them, exactly?

I like JB, the home bakes and the leaver of the tent section but the rest is pointless time-filling between ads.

Half an hour would be plenty (I seem to remember it being half an hour before the move to c4 but I could be imagining that).

EsmaCannonball · 17/10/2021 12:53

The Bake-Off is meant to be a feelgood programme so Tom Allen's snideyness and sarcasm just ruin the Extra Slice. Jo Brand was actually fine presenting it on her own, and an hour is stretching the material very thin.

CaptainMyCaptain · 17/10/2021 13:52

@EsmaCannonball

The Bake-Off is meant to be a feelgood programme so Tom Allen's snideyness and sarcasm just ruin the Extra Slice. Jo Brand was actually fine presenting it on her own, and an hour is stretching the material very thin.
I think the people who bring their cakes in to be critiqued by him know what they're getting. It's all done in fun.
EsmaCannonball · 17/10/2021 17:19

I really dislike the bit where the baker who has left that week comes on and then has to sit and listen to Tom Allen do a snide monologue about their time on the show. Sometimes it's very awkward and just the wrong vibe for the show.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/10/2021 19:27

I agree, @EsmaCannonball - Tom’s ‘humour’ is often nasty and barbed. I think he can be funny without sticking the knife in, but he doesn’t often do it.

colourmebladd · 18/10/2021 06:30

I agree that the show would be fine as it was before without TA but he can be very funny, and he was lovely to Maggie.

VoyageInTheDark · 18/10/2021 15:32

I like Tom's bits but I think the show is too padded at an hour long. I could do without the stupid games with the guests.

CaptainMyCaptain · 18/10/2021 16:56

@VoyageInTheDark

I like Tom's bits but I think the show is too padded at an hour long. I could do without the stupid games with the guests.
I agree the games are silly. I like Tom commenting at the audience's bakes - they know what's going to happen and they play up to it.
EekGoesTheBaby · 18/10/2021 21:05

@SchadenfreudePersonifed, your apölögy gave me a chuckle.

Davros · 19/10/2021 10:31

[quote lomaamina]@Davros, I had the same, but found it on the front page as a popular show.[/quote]
I eventually found the other episodes by going out of TiVo and into the other area, whatever it's called. Then, as you said, finding "favourites" on the front page of All4. It was not in the GBBO listing there, they were all Christmas ones! Very strange... I'm still not in love with it but it's good background/filler

iklboo · 19/10/2021 17:13

Berry strudel & naice ice cream in for later to watch with deutsche woche.

I wonder if anyone will get a Hollywood Händedruck?

Wolfcub · 19/10/2021 19:59

Evening all

sleepykits · 19/10/2021 20:00

Evening all!

littlbrowndog · 19/10/2021 20:01

Evening. Toddlers sleeping. 😎😎

Wolfcub · 19/10/2021 20:03

Yea Pru Germans only eat biscuits at Christmas

littlbrowndog · 19/10/2021 20:05

I guess it’s the biscuits you get at Lidl on German week 😎

sleepykits · 19/10/2021 20:08

I do love a lebkuchen! But that's passed down from my polish grandmother.

jay55 · 19/10/2021 20:09

Evening.

This feels a bit more like a technical than signature.

sleepykits · 19/10/2021 20:12

@jay55

Evening.

This feels a bit more like a technical than signature.

Yes definitely!
Whiskyinajar · 19/10/2021 20:12

I love Lizzie

"Cheeky boys" ...and like me has has ADHD.

CaptainMyCaptain · 19/10/2021 20:16

I have no predictions to make this week. It could be anyone leaving (except Jurgen or Giuseppe).

PeskyRooks · 19/10/2021 20:16

I want one of those rolling pins that makes a pattern.
I want Freya's hair too.

Wolfcub · 19/10/2021 20:19

I don't remember all the rubbing of Giuseppe when it was Italian week. They seem to be deliberately trying to put Jurgen under too much pressure

sleepykits · 19/10/2021 20:23

Freya's going this week?