i finished all the netflix seasons and wanted to watch the early seasons they took off, and last i remember they were on roku. just checked and all they have is one episode of season 3 and then that’s it? anyone else have this problem?

The Celebrity Lineup for the SU2C specials has been announced with Prue's friend Caroline Waldegrave tsaking over as judge.

The 20 celebrities this year will be

Kate Garraway

Roman Kemp

Sarah Beeny

Gloria Hunniford

Scarlette Douglas

Stuart Douglas

Self Esteem

Amelia Dimoldenberg

Adam Buxton

Phil Wang

Sophie Willan

Jamali Maddox

Tommy Tiernan

Ellie Goldstein

Chris Ramsey

Rosie Ramsey

Meera Syal

Jim Howick

Maxine Peake

Gbemisola Ikumelo

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/33075456/prue-leith-replaced-bake-off-celeb-lineup-revealed/

No official airdate as of yet.

I realize this is true for most things in life, but when I watch I can’t help but think that the contestants who have more free time and money to practice their recipes outside of the weekly competition must have a pretty clear advantage to the contestants who have less money to spend on practice ingredients and less time to spend on practice due to family, work, caretaking, or other obligations.

Does GBBO normalize for this in any way?

Anyone else consider this while watching?

Did you hear Noel’s “porn star” comment about Manon’s friend? WTH? what a disrespectful thing to say.

Tonight on the TV show “NCIS” (in America), a bakery was part of the plot. In one scene, a character said “Bakers, you have five minutes”, and then he confided that he watched the Great British Baking Show!

I'm re-watching Patisserie Week (the Semi-Final), and Noel's instructions for the Technical includes the line, "Prue would love you to make a tarte aux pommes. If you didn't do GSCE French, that is an apple tart."

How might the interpreter have handled a distinction like this? Just sign "apple tart" in BSL twice? Use French Sign Language for "tarte aux pommes" (if the sign is different)?

What about in technicals where the bake is obscure enough that most bakers go, "A what?!" Like with "pathivier," would he maybe sign the individual letters and spell it out?

Thanks for anyone with experience who can lend some insight!

I'm sure this has been discussed previously, but I searched and couldn't find it.

How do they keep the winner secret until the episode airs? Or is common knowledge after the season concludes? The finales are obviously edited and have gone through extensive post-production. We know they are not broadcast live, and because the family/friends/entire cast are present at the announcement (including kids) the winner is well known at that point.

I literally cannot even bake a sugar cookie. I love the main show the best, but I always feel super inspired by the junior version. The kids are always good, but this year they seemed especially strong. Maybe they had extra time to learn to bake during the lockdowns or something, Idk, but I am impressed.

Ok, I have watched these all through several times. Why does it seem that Sophie is so indifferent to winning? Is it just me?

The time crunch is so stressful. Does anyone think the bakers ever get annoyed with Alison and Noel coming by and chatting, joking and even touching their food? Everyone always seems delighted but I wonder if they just want to get on with their baking!

I’m an American so this is the first season available here and all I can say is WOW! I have never gotten so much joy from watching GBBO. The children all have so much energy and their senses of humour KILL ME. I love how gentle and encouraging Liam and Rav are as they are judging. Not to mention how incredibly talented and creative these kids are! All to say this has been so enjoyable to watch and I cannot stop laughing. It’s so easy to cheer them all on from my side of the screen.

Has anyone else had a chance to watch the Junior Bake Off series?

I was really inspired by the autumn week showstoppers!!! does anyone have any vegetable cake recipes they really like? any pie recipes like the signature? I wanna try these recipes but they're not on the official website...

Enjoying Jurgen’s season including Crystelle and George.

Where is Lizzie’s accent from? To this fat old American it sounds like English Pub accent?

Would love to see Jurgen as a guest star on the Raul travel show.

Has anyone seen the first few years of GBBo &early celebrity BO’s?? Avail on Roku. The state of Mary Berry was alarming!

Don't they announce them right about now? Has anyone heard any rumours of who's featured this time?

https://www.tvinsider.com/1171197/noel-fielding-dick-turpin-season-2-axed-great-british-baking-show-gbbo/

It's so frustrating watching contestants get judged because it's so hot in the tent. I understand the thought and efforts that would go into cooling the space with it being in the middle of the field but to give them the worst challenge in heat when it's 35+ degrees just seems like they continue to let contestants suffer for the dramatization when in reality they're not able to perform at their best because their circumstances are working against them.

When she’s not on cam and I’m just in another room, she sounds SO much like Roisin Conaty’s Jo from Man Down! Not a bad thing, I love Conaty as well… just not as familiar with Hammond so the similarity in their voices (to me) is too funny sometimes. Definitely prefer Hammond to Lucas.

Hey all!
I made a little website to help query the GBBO recipes:
https://frontend-production-9bf8.up.railway.app

Just thought I'd share it because I found it easy to navigate than the official site. Any and all feedback welcomed!

(PS, sorry for the crap URL - this was just a personal project, so I didn't splurge for a real domain)

The beauty of getting older is that I do recognize these bakers, but I can’t remember what happens. Enjoying 80’s week

Truly the fact that nobody has made a very detailed Old Gregg cake for a show stopper grieves me.

Hello! I saw the first episode through some weird glitch and it's gone off my Netflix and I am a huge fan of tilly as a fellow celiac disease club member! I'm so bummed and confused how that happened.

It's so upsetting watching bakers fail because their frozen components don't set enough. I guess the show rationale would be 'they're supposed to be home bakers and you don't have blast chillers at home!' They most likely do not cook in a 30+ degree tent at home either. It feels like they're set up to fail and it makes me irrationally angry whenever I see somebody's ice cream end up melted or mousse not set. If they want to have them cook as they would at home, get them in an insulated environment and keep the temperature at like 20 degrees. End rant.

ok i just have like 2 unpopular opinions about Sumayah

1. I feel like the snippets we were shown of her and Noel make it seem like she's "disrespecting" him when really it's the humorous banter between them. It's sort of deadpan and dry humor and I feel like people aren't picking up the non-seriousness of it, and might think she's rude because they cut out the entire context
2. I like her voice actually? It's very satisfying to listen to for me, but maybe that's because I'm a girl in my 20s so I'm somewhat close to her age (and thus don't have age-based biases about her voice). I don't think it's Tik-tok influenced but probably peer influenced

I am a US viewer and was excited to find out that the earlier seasons were available on Roku!

I tried to watch them on Roku Channel online but the episodes are not closed captioned. Has anyone watched it with the actual Roku device hooked to their TV and know if that way had captioning available.

If there is captioning available on the Roku device, I might spring for one.

With as much voiceover narration the show has and being hearing-impaired, it makes a huge difference! Thank you.

My love affair with GBBO began during Covid lockdowns in 2020. It was the only show that calmed my anxiety and looming dread. Since then, I’ve watched the entire series at least three times. My husband always wondered why I love the show (despite the fact he knows how much I love to bake 🤔) and I convinced him to watch the most recent season with me.

He has now watched every season and is excitedly anticipating the next. He loves the humor and appreciates it isn’t cut-throat like so many reality competition shows (and isn’t just a bunch of influencers there for exposure).

He’s a former Hell’s Kitchen and Masterchef devotee, but hates what those shows have become (thanks to the Fox network 😠), so I’m not too surprised he’s addicted to the authenticity of GBBO. (Side note - neither one of us likes GABO).

UPDATE: since this post, my husband has watched almost every season. He’s binging it. 😁

Just watched the 2024 New Years episode and Jurgen's trombone is the highlight!

Hello everyone,

My folks and I are big fans of Great British Bake Off. Each September like clock work we watch the new season on Netflix here in the U.S. I’ve also purchased the 5 seasons that PBS put out on DVD.

Would anyone know how to view the remaining seasons hopefully on DVD? That or if they are on another streaming service such as Acorn or Britbox.