Mary Berry's BBC Show Could Launch Before Channel 4's Bake Off Debut
- by Paula Vaughn
- in Culture
- — Oct 1, 2016
Fans of the Great British Bake off - which is moving to Channel 4 with Hollywood as the only member of the original presenting team still on board - wondered if he was doing interviews.
Mary, 81, announced she was bowing out as head judge last week out of "loyalty" to the BBC, whereas her co-star Paul Hollywood chose to follow the show across to Channel 4.
Jay Hunt, Channel 4's chief creative officer, said Purnell's comments on tighter regulation were "a slightly wonderful thing to say - we don't take a penny of public money".
When asked by Newsround if she'd been approached she said: 'No'. "This raises a debate about whether Channel 4 can do what it wants", he said, according to The Telegraph.
The hosts made a decision to quit the programme after Channel 4 snatched the rights to the series from BBC earlier this month and, although many people are convinced judge Mary Berry's departure will wreak havoc for producers, the 31-year-old star believes bosses should be more concerned about the presenters abrupt exit because they make the show the success it is.
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"Jay Hunt: It is a total misrepresentation that Channel 4 is not regulated #RTSconf".
Tony Hall, the BBC Director-General, told the conference that the Bake Off affair demonstrated why the BBC needed to develop shows which it owned the intellectual property over.
Format is important in broadcasting, but talent is crucial.
"I mean, the difference between 15 million viewers, right, which Bake Off got, to possibly settling down to about three million on Channel 4, surely that's got to mean something to them, hasn't it?" "We are looking at lots of ideas, although we are not yet ready to make an announcement". Channel 4 has existed from the very beginning by supporting independent producers and by operating a very effective cross-subsidy model.
He also added the BBC was "getting a raw deal" by helping make a successful show, which is then sold onto a commercial channel, much like their version of singing competition The Voice, which has moved to ITV ahead of its 2017 series.
