The Great British Bake Off changes channels

I don't get 'Bake Off' (or most other programmes like these such as Strictly, I'm a Celebrity, Big Brother, The Voice - the list is endless actually), so moving from one channel to another wont bother me in the least but I know many it will!

£25 million a series to watch a bunch of middleclass, 'have everything's' - how many of these lot know how to live their life's and plan and budget their family meals on low incomes or having to go to food banks - marinating their quails in au jus and flambéing their soufflés?

It did interest me though what all the big fuss was about.

Apparently it is this -

"There are many reasons to love The Great British Bake Off, but if you're an advertiser it has something very few programmes can offer: Five million viewers under the age of 34.

For a programme aimed at a channel whose viewers have an average age of 62, and featuring a judge in her 80s, this is more than remarkable.

Bake Off was described as "quintessentially BBC" by the corporation and its formula, in which nice people cope with some mild pastry-related jeopardy, contradicts almost every expert opinion about what young people want to watch.

The BBC's other big ratings warhorse, Strictly Come Dancing, has a two-to-one split between those over and under 45. Bake Off is one-to-one.

Who would have dared say 10 years ago that the way to reach "Millennials" was baking?

So, it's no wonder that a rival broadcaster has swooped. That demographic is marketing catnip".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37353262


So should the BBC have bid more to keep it (they bid just £15 million).

Should the owners of Bake Off remained loyal - after all it was the BBC that took the risk of building it up from a naff idea that nobody else would ever have gone with?

And will it effect you or your family's future viewing habits?


Fair play to Mel and Sue for telling the Bake Off owners to go stuff themselves after their treachery!

I never thought I'd see the day, a Bake Off thread on Bolton Nuts.

Someone please ban sluffy for a week.

I'm sure it'll end up being about gay sex or boats, give it time.

scottjames30 wrote:I'm sure it'll end up being about gay sex or boats, give it time.

To be fair either subject is an improvement on a bunch of fuckwits baking cakes. If you can't afford to buy one from Asda do without, don't be cluttering my TV up.

whatsgoingon wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:I'm sure it'll end up being about gay sex or boats, give it time.

To be fair either subject is an improvement on a bunch of fuckwits baking cakes. If you can't afford to buy one from Asda do without, don't be cluttering my TV up.

Breadders will be along shortly to explain why baking your own is much better than buying supermarket shite.

karlypants wrote:

whatsgoingon wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:I'm sure it'll end up being about gay sex or boats, give it time.

To be fair either subject is an improvement on a bunch of fuckwits baking cakes. If you can't afford to buy one from Asda do without, don't be cluttering my TV up.

Breadders will be along shortly to explain why baking your own is much better than buying supermarket shite.

People only bake there own when they can't afford to buy proper ones, hence Bread trying to bake his own jaffa cakes after Brexit wiped out his pension 

whatsgoingon wrote:
People only bake there own when they can't afford to buy proper ones

Stupid comment. It's much cheaper to buy cakes and pastries from the supermarket.

Asda sell apple pies for a quid, you couldn't buy the ingredients to make your own apple pie for that.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

whatsgoingon wrote:
People only bake there own when they can't afford to buy proper ones

Stupid comment. It's much cheaper to buy cakes and pastries from the supermarket.

Asda sell apple pies for a quid, you couldn't buy the ingredients to make your own apple pie for that.

I hadn't thought of that Nat and clearly I was being absolutely serious, I must rethink my budgeting

Idiots bake.

I bake regularly. It's very rewarding to eat your own produce.

The apple pies may only cost a quid, but quite often, the quality of the cheaper cakes, biscuits, etc., is shite.

Everything at the Pound Bakery is shite.

True

gloswhite wrote:The apple pies may only cost a quid, but quite often, the quality of the cheaper cakes, biscuits, etc., is shite.

My apple pie is legendary.

It is indeed, very true about the Pound Bakery.

They asked me to go in and have a look at how they could reduce the unit cost of producing their cakes because their margin wasn't big enough.

When I asked how much it was costing them to make an eclair, they told me it was about 2p.

So I just laughed and politely declined their invitation.

Cheap, nasty ingredients, shit quality control and not the cleanest bakery I've ever seen.

Avoid.

whatsgoingon wrote:

karlypants wrote:

whatsgoingon wrote:

scottjames30 wrote:I'm sure it'll end up being about gay sex or boats, give it time.

To be fair either subject is an improvement on a bunch of fuckwits baking cakes. If you can't afford to buy one from Asda do without, don't be cluttering my TV up.

Breadders will be along shortly to explain why baking your own is much better than buying supermarket shite.

People only bake there own when they can't afford to buy proper ones, hence Bread trying to bake his own jaffa cakes after Brexit wiped out his pension 

It does make you wonder where Breaders had his pension pot invested.

Bread2.0 wrote:It is indeed, very true about the Pound Bakery.

They asked me to go in and have a look at how they could reduce the unit cost of producing their cakes because their margin wasn't big enough.

When I asked how much it was costing them to make an eclair, they told me it was about 2p.

So I just laughed and politely declined their invitation.

Cheap, nasty ingredients, shit quality control and not the cleanest bakery I've ever seen.

Avoid.

My Brother is a delivery driver for the group that owns the pound bakery, i'll not take any freebies off him in future then

Bread2.0 wrote:It is indeed, very true about the Pound Bakery.

They asked me to go in and have a look at how they could reduce the unit cost of producing their cakes because their margin wasn't big enough.

When I asked how much it was costing them to make an eclair, they told me it was about 2p.

So I just laughed and politely declined their invitation.

Cheap, nasty ingredients, shit quality control and not the cleanest bakery I've ever seen.

Avoid.

How do you fit in the time to work between posting?

I've told you before, that's the beauty of consulting.

You ponce around for a bit, nod a lot, shake your head a bit and look mildly troubled then you lock yourself in an office with your laptop and charge them £500 a day for posting on here.

So long as you produce a report with some recommendations that appear to make sense and are full of jargon, you're fine.

And the real beauty is, if they don't take it on board and nothing improves, you can say it's their fault.

Easy life and I'd recommend it to everyone.

Natasha Whittam wrote:

gloswhite wrote:The apple pies may only cost a quid, but quite often, the quality of the cheaper cakes, biscuits, etc., is shite.

My apple pie is legendary.

One item amongst many, no doubt