GBBO back Channel 4 Tuesday 21st Sept!

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Hurrah! That is all.

Tom Allen ruins Bake Off Professionals too.

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).

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@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.

@SchadenfreudePersonifed, your apölögy gave me a chuckle.

[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

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

I wonder if anyone will get a Hollywood Händedruck?

Evening all

Evening all!

Evening. Toddlers sleeping. 😎😎

Yea Pru Germans only eat biscuits at Christmas

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

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

Evening.

This feels a bit more like a technical than signature.

@jay55

Evening.

This feels a bit more like a technical than signature.

Yes definitely!

I love Lizzie

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

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

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

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

Freya's going this week?