Bake Off first-look review – exceedingly good, despite switch to Channel 4

The new series loses the BBC’s worst bits while sticking to the winning recipeFans annoyed by the big money transfer of the Great British Bake Off from the BBC to Channel 4 will be hoping to throw insults like “half-baked”, “overdone’, “burnt out” and “stale” at the show’s debut in its new home next Tuesday.But on the evidence of the first episode, Channel 4 and Love Productions, who make the programme, have achieved the most difficult of all bakery-related metaphors – having their cake and eating it. The eighth series of the extreme patisserie challenge manages to seem both exactly the same but also just subtly different enough. Continue reading…
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