The Great Bake Off


‘The Great Bake Off’ to get first Asian version in Thailand

The Great Bake Off  is to be remade in Thailand, marking the format’s first version in Asia. BBC Studios Distribution has sold the Love Productions format to Thailand’s free-to-air digital terrestrial network PPTV, which will launch the show this summer. Bake Off Thailand will be produced by APJ & CO, a local production house based in […]

Young adults shunning drama for reality – study

Young adults overwhelmingly favour the entertainment and reality genres when watching linear TV, according to a new study. Entertainment represented 40% of young adult (15-34) TV viewing time in ten territories studied in Médiametré’s Young Adults Report. This compares with 36% of the overall population. The figures suggest young adults – or millennials – are […]

BBC sells Bake Off format ahead of MIPCOM push

BBC Worldwide has registered new sales for The Great Bake Off ahead of a sales push for the show at MIPCOM. The cooking competition show has dominated headlines in the UK after Sky-backed producer Love Productions took it from the BBC to Channel 4, in a three-year deal worth £75 million (U$97.5 million). The agreement, […]

Dutch net first to taste Bake-Off companion

Dutch pubcaster NPO has become the first broadcaster outside the UK to order a remake of The Great Bake Off companion series An Extra Slice. The remake will be known as Smaakt Naar Meer and sit alongside the local version of Bake Off, Heel Holland Bakt, debuting on September 7. The format is a studio […]

Junior Bake Off lands first format

BBC Worldwide’s Junior Bake Off format has landed its first international remake. The format will go out on new Thai digital terrestrial channel NOW 26 in the fourth quarter of this year, with local prodco Content LAB attached to produce it. Junior Bake Off launched in the UK in 2011 and is currently two seasons […]

Formats to see in CEE

As NATPE Budapest gets underway, TBI speaks to the main players about selling formats into Central and Eastern Europe, breaking into emerging local territories and the booming market in constructed reality series Traditionally, the biggest buyers of formats in the CEE region have been Russia, Poland and Ukraine and while this triumvirate remain fertile ground […]

BBC sells Bake Off to Discovery in Italy

The show tests the skills of amateur chefs in various challenges to find the country’s best home baker. It has been a big hit for the BBC in the UK on BBC Two. It is made by UK indie Love Productions, the UK indie set up by Richard McKerrow, a former commissioning editor at Channel […]