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Mary Berry Stays!
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Mary is staying with BBC out of loyalty.
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Ninefingers - //The C4 verion will become a "mere asylum" for Paul Hollywood fans just a shame the BBC couldn't "sue Mr Mealy" for taking the reputed £7m pieces of silver. //
I think the public - and especially the media, need to get a grip on some perspective here.
Yes, this is a hugely popular TV show, but it is just a TV show! It's not the Elgin Marbles or The Doomsday Book being carted off to be shown in Disneyland.
As for the production company who have sold the format - they are a production company, not keeper of the nation's flame. They are a business, and this was a business opportunity to make money - who can seriously blame Mr Mealy for going where the money is. Keeping the nation's viewers happy does not pay his bills.
And The Mail this morning - referring to 'Wonderful Sweet Mary ...' and calling Paul Hollywood a 'rat' - it's utterly OTT.
TV presenters are entitled to go where they wish, they are not to be praised to the skies as saints on earth, or castigated as morally bankrupt simply because their career choices chime with national opinion.
So, it is a popular TV show, but it's not life and death!
Take a deep breath people - life will go on ... promise!
I think the public - and especially the media, need to get a grip on some perspective here.
Yes, this is a hugely popular TV show, but it is just a TV show! It's not the Elgin Marbles or The Doomsday Book being carted off to be shown in Disneyland.
As for the production company who have sold the format - they are a production company, not keeper of the nation's flame. They are a business, and this was a business opportunity to make money - who can seriously blame Mr Mealy for going where the money is. Keeping the nation's viewers happy does not pay his bills.
And The Mail this morning - referring to 'Wonderful Sweet Mary ...' and calling Paul Hollywood a 'rat' - it's utterly OTT.
TV presenters are entitled to go where they wish, they are not to be praised to the skies as saints on earth, or castigated as morally bankrupt simply because their career choices chime with national opinion.
So, it is a popular TV show, but it's not life and death!
Take a deep breath people - life will go on ... promise!
Andy - I find the whole thing quite ridiculous. It's a programme about cooking (not my favourite occupation). I can't understand the hype about it. I think the BBC is quite right to not pay an extortionate fee to keep the programme, and look forward to a channel with fewer cookery programmes in the future. (Now waits to be blasted into kingdom come for daring to not like this programme!!!)
hellywelly4 - //Andy - I find the whole thing quite ridiculous. It's a programme about cooking (not my favourite occupation). I can't understand the hype about it. I think the BBC is quite right to not pay an extortionate fee to keep the programme, and look forward to a channel with fewer cookery programmes in the future. (Now waits to be blasted into kingdom come for daring to not like this programme!!!) //
Don't worry - I have made my utter disinterest in all cookery programmes known on here since they first started - and the earth has yet to tilt off its axis!
I appreciate that the show is popular, but the media hype likens its move to Channel Four as being on a par with the Abdication Crisis!
Enough already - as we agree.
Don't worry - I have made my utter disinterest in all cookery programmes known on here since they first started - and the earth has yet to tilt off its axis!
I appreciate that the show is popular, but the media hype likens its move to Channel Four as being on a par with the Abdication Crisis!
Enough already - as we agree.
Andy_hughes // I think the public - and especially the media, need to get a grip on some perspective here.
Yes, this is a hugely popular TV show, but it is just a TV show! It's not the Elgin Marbles or The Doomsday Book being carted off to be shown in Disneyland.
As for the production company who have sold the format - they are a production company, not keeper of the nation's flame. They are a business, and this was a business opportunity to make money - who can seriously blame Mr Mealy for going where the money is. Keeping the nation's viewers happy does not pay his bills.
And The Mail this morning - referring to 'Wonderful Sweet Mary ...' and calling Paul Hollywood a 'rat' - it's utterly OTT.
TV presenters are entitled to go where they wish, they are not to be praised to the skies as saints on earth, or castigated as morally bankrupt simply because their career choices chime with national opinion.
So, it is a popular TV show, but it's not life and death!
Take a deep breath people - life will go on ... promise! //
More comedy gold, obviously my attempts at anagram humour fell on deaf ears. GBBO just another TV programme, couldn't care less whether it existed or not much like the other soap operas we are forced to view and to examine on a daily basis this place really is getting worse!
Yes, this is a hugely popular TV show, but it is just a TV show! It's not the Elgin Marbles or The Doomsday Book being carted off to be shown in Disneyland.
As for the production company who have sold the format - they are a production company, not keeper of the nation's flame. They are a business, and this was a business opportunity to make money - who can seriously blame Mr Mealy for going where the money is. Keeping the nation's viewers happy does not pay his bills.
And The Mail this morning - referring to 'Wonderful Sweet Mary ...' and calling Paul Hollywood a 'rat' - it's utterly OTT.
TV presenters are entitled to go where they wish, they are not to be praised to the skies as saints on earth, or castigated as morally bankrupt simply because their career choices chime with national opinion.
So, it is a popular TV show, but it's not life and death!
Take a deep breath people - life will go on ... promise! //
More comedy gold, obviously my attempts at anagram humour fell on deaf ears. GBBO just another TV programme, couldn't care less whether it existed or not much like the other soap operas we are forced to view and to examine on a daily basis this place really is getting worse!
Hellywelly....I am with you all the way on this !
The Beeb has more important things to do with its money, than perpetuate programs like this. I can't, for the life of me, understand what bloody difference it makes what company the cameras belong to that film this show, or who appears on the show.
The Beeb should stick to what it does best.....more David Attenborough programs please instead !
The Beeb has more important things to do with its money, than perpetuate programs like this. I can't, for the life of me, understand what bloody difference it makes what company the cameras belong to that film this show, or who appears on the show.
The Beeb should stick to what it does best.....more David Attenborough programs please instead !
I don't watch the show, but ...
Mary Berry can afford to stand by her principals. Apparently she has written ... this is not a typo ... 70(!) best selling cook books!!
She has made a huge amount of money, and her fame has come from BBC cookery programmes.
She's a BBC person.
Paul Hollywood was not well known until Bake Off. He's made quite a lot of money, but all on the back of that one programme, with which he is completely connected.
He is a Bake Off person.
So, surely no one could be surprised that She stays with the BBC, and He stays with Bake Off?
Mary Berry can afford to stand by her principals. Apparently she has written ... this is not a typo ... 70(!) best selling cook books!!
She has made a huge amount of money, and her fame has come from BBC cookery programmes.
She's a BBC person.
Paul Hollywood was not well known until Bake Off. He's made quite a lot of money, but all on the back of that one programme, with which he is completely connected.
He is a Bake Off person.
So, surely no one could be surprised that She stays with the BBC, and He stays with Bake Off?
More tha 75 according to Wiki - //She has published more than 75 cookery books including her bestselling Baking Bible in 2009. Her first book was The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970. She hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She has been a judge on the BBC One (originally BBC Two) television programme The Great British Bake Off since its launch in 2010.//
Thats rediculous
Thats rediculous
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