BBC to ditch "The Great British Bake

I cant believe the beeb has not taken this chance to waste more of the licence payers money after all the cost has never stopped them in the past from squandering the cash.

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Apart from losing international cricket coverage, first to C4 and then to non terrestial channels, and selected England RU internationals, amongst others, you need to check your facts

Yeah right.

I never watched it anyway, the only cooking programme I have watched is The Hairy Bikers and that is mainly for the way they present it.

IMHO the BBC were right not to meet the asking price, they are now talking of limiting the wages of the top presenters, not before time. The number of repeat programmes on BBC1 and 2 is getting out of hand.

Can't get excited by it.  Did find out this morning that Sky have a 70% stake in the programme and wanted it off the BBC.

Whatever happened to Quatermass?

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Scared me to death in my younger days

Off topic, sorry....

Yes i remember the feature length film or Quatermass it was quite scary.

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Reading the posts on this topic have brought out that the BBC did not drop the programme at all - guess that was this media spin that gets talked about.

I'm a female and I dislike cooking and baking alike..having said that I do enjoy watching some cookery programmes but not this one..I find all the presenters really annoying....every single one of them..so there

Perhaps the beeb will learn a lesson. 

Stop trying to be clever and stop funding bbc employees who set up independent companies to make programmes for them as a (legal) tax fiddle 

They would then own the programs instead of having to buy them back or compete for them 

To be fair, the BBC had its hand forced to use independent producers by the government in the1990s, the then DG John Birt came to a compromise deal to avoid full privatisation

What is bake off going to  do now as Mary Berry is staying with the Beeb