Nadia - stop moaning and get a job.....

[mids2019]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15628823/Nadiya-Hussain-attack-BBC-cancelled-difficult-conversations.html

I think this woman needs her to realise her star has fallen like a lot of minor celebs. She has had a good run and everything has did was tired. New cookery blood should be allowed a chance.

I thinks it's undignified to start accusing her erstwhile employers of racism.

My mate messaged me. She does Instagram

You only need to look at the viewing figures. Any program which moves from BBC1 to Ch4 has already run its course as mainstream TV or the BBC would not release control of it.

@CousinBette they were helping stage manage a charity do at a West End theatre. All the turns were female actors well known for comedy or comedians. All were absolutely lovely - Maureen Lipman, Meera Syal, Lesley Joseph, Nina Wadia, Jennifer Saunders, Mel Giedroyc - except for Sue Perkins and Jenni Eclair who spoke to anyone not a fellow celeb, including my other half, like "shit on their shoe". "Vile" was the other word used. My other half almost never says anything even slightly bad about anyone, so I know they must have been bad.

Rick Stein’s recipes are the sort of food I like to eat. Nadiya’s aren’t. In any case, it will be all about the viewing figures as that is the bottom line with commissioning.

I absolutely loved Nadia on bake off. Liked her clips on Saturday Kitchen. I would be interested in some Middle Eastern cookery. I agree that she should have a YouTube channel and I think it would be very successful. I do think she should cheer up a bit and use her amazing profile and go for it.

’She should get a bloody job’ .. I think she’s been working as a TA this year but has had to give it up due to the many illnesses the kids gave her.

I can believe that, based on how she's noe coming across.
She's shooting herself in the foot.

I think youve copied and pasted your Google search @ the wrong person

Rick Stein in a proper chef and his programmes are more than just him making a meal.
He runs restaurants and has experience and an interest in produce.

When speaking to other chefs or farmers, he shows genuine interest and a keenness to learn.

Nadia came across as if she was educating the viewer and I stopped watching even though I initially liked her.

She also lost me at The banana skins and The Queen's cake was questionable.

BBC didn't 'control' GBBO, they had a contract which came to an end and the production company who makes the show for the BBC wanted an extra £10m per year, which the BBC couldn't justify with TV License payers money.

That’s not how it works at all. The BBC couldn’t afford to keep GBBO, it’s made by an independent production company as many programmes are, it was so popular they raised the fees significantly to make it, they can sell it to the highest bidder.

Channel 4 paid the higher fee, the BBC didn’t ‘release’ it, they never owned it, and couldn’t afford another series.

Thats how many many popular shows work, the channels who can pay more get the independently produced shows.

Edit - the same might happen with something like Traitors quite easily.

Almost everyone on your list that you’ve copied and pasted off ChatGPT is a singer and many of them have had peaks and troughs in their careers, it’s not the same as women and amateur baking competition– as for someone like Jamie Laing - he’s a reality participant who has so far had a successful career but he is grafting his arse off with every possible ball in the air to keep it going because he understands the window is small and competition is… That’s what you have to do. You can’t rely on one tv channel or one publisher to keep your afloat forever.

It will also be about having new ideas, shows rarely get recommissioned forever if they haven’t got a new angle, but yeah that in turn with viewing figures, audiences want something new.

That’s why reality shows with contestants often get more series, same format new stories.

They did release it, effectively. They decided it wasn't worth to them what was being asked for it. If they hadn't felt it had run its course, they would have bought the next series. Channel 4 is a still a minor channel. Viewing figures are 1.4 million on Ch4, at its peak they were ten times as high on the Beeb, and even as it faded out was still pulling 7m. The Beeb knew it was coming to an end, they let it go.

But it is just a cookbook. The book is full of slap up meals. It contains a main course, and dessert from various countries, from Algeria right across to Indonesia. It is the opposite of what you’d think of as a book associated with a fast. Indeed, I would regard it as a ‘feast’ book, rather than a ‘fast’ book. Many of the meals look lovely, if very calorific. It appears to me that Ramadan is very different to a Lenten fast. With Ramadan, it seems can eat as much of your normal food as you want, just within a certain time window.

There isn’t much blurb on the religious aspect. Just that it is a compilation of recipes inspired by the food normally eaten in countries where the population are mainly Muslims. I don’t think they eat different food during that month. I think the only difference is what time of the day/night they eat it. I stand to be corrected, of course.

Total and utter nonsense. That is not how it works. The show was on a high, the production company wanted more money for it. Channel 4 were prepared to offer it – the Bbc has to justify licence fee money and couldn’t do so. As another PP said when you factor in streaming figures, which is vital these days it’s still getting about 7 million viewers an episode, which is vast.

They had first opportunity to negotiate on taking the next series, the BBC couldn’t afford it, it was widely reported at the time, it was still very popular and the BBC would’ve kept it if they could’ve afforded it.

I work in broadcasting, budgets are consistently stretched at the BBC, they always need to cut costs.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/12/bbc-loses-great-british-bake-off

No - continuing the conversation from your response to the previous poster.

Despite not watching many reality shows and certainly not US ones I actually knew those off the top of my head - I only googled the dates, which is weird because I can't remember what day it is most of the time!

I used to be able to name every winner from the first series of pop idol up until James Arthur on X-factor but I'm out of practice on that one 😂

I didn't copy and paste them off Chat GPT - I knew the names and the shows - I only googled the dates.

And it wasn't about whether they've worked hard or not, but was adding to a conversation where a poster had said:

I can’t think of other reality show winners with long careers (rylan? Olly mires?)

Everyone on that list got their break through winning or participating in reality TV shows - would they have been successful anyway? Maybe, maybe not, but they have all had relatively long and successful careers, or are at the start of one after being on a reality show.

I find pressing expand quote history is useful to understanding the context of a reply

How rude! Glad to hear the others you mentioned were nice though.

This.

I love Nadiya as a presenter. She's eloquent and personable plus I love seeing Bengalis on TV. I admire her speaking up about her mental health and struggles. I haven’t read the DM article but I’m sure her experience is valid. I do agree though with some of the posters that some of her recipes were out there and a lot were too sweet for me. They tried to turn her into a frugal cook. I feel she wasn’t guided correctly and she should have focussed on her brand. To me, Nadiya was in the same category as The Hairy Bikers, with similar show formats. It would have been great to see her latest book as a show. Am sure they could have figured out a way to keep it low on budget. Or she should put out recipes herself on insta & film with the different communities her recipes are from.

If she brought in the viewers, she wouldn't have been dropped. Bottom line.

Wondering why I had a comment deleted simply pointing out that claims or sexism and racism when things don't go their way are a well-worn tactic of the modern identitarian left. Comment was no different to many others on here and was not offensive in the slightest. Why was it censored? Very disturbing.

What do you mean by frugal?

I saw her as one of the lsat bastions of indulgence, which I enjoy but cant enjoy anymore unfortunately

I mean can you imagine the galloping gourmet still being around these days.

Nadia speaks up against the genocide in Gaza by the Israelis so the bbc had to silence her because you are not allowed to speak uo against genocidal apartheid Israel.
She's very personable in real life. Lovely warm character to meet.