The Great British Bake Off (series)
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The Great British Bake Off, also known as Bake Off and GBBO, and known in the US and Canada as The Great British Baking Show, is a baking competition and reality show originally aired on BBC Two from 17 August 2010 – 22 October 2013, then on BBC One from 6 August 2014 – 26 October 2016, and finally on Channel 4 from 29 August 2017 - present.
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The series crossed over with the Doctor Who universe in the Children in Need special Looking for Pudsey [+]Loading...["Looking for Pudsey (TV story)"].
In Looking for Pudsey, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood (portrayed by their real world counterparts) repeatedly offer different types of cake to Eddie Redmayne.
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The show was presented during its BBC run by Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, and Sandi Toksvig. Toksvig was the only one of these presenters to remain when the show moved to Channel 4. She later stepped down in 2020, with Matt Lucas taking her place.
Paul Hollywood is a judge on both runs of the show. He was joined in the BBC iteration by Mary Berry.
Various charity versions of the show, in which celebrities serve as contestants, have taken place.
For The Great Sport Relief Bake Off, Samantha Bond, Emma Freud, and Doon Mackichan were contestants on the 2014 series, and Jennifer Saunders was a guest host on the 2016 series.
For The Great Comic Relief Bake Off, Ingrid Oliver, Warwick Davis, Kirsty Wark, Bob Mortimer, and Claudia Winkleman were contestants on the 2013 series, and Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders (again), Jonathan Ross, David Mitchell, Michael Sheen, Victoria Wood, and Kayvan Novak were contestants on the 2015 series.
For The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off:
- Bill Turnbull, Nick Hewer, Lee Mack, and Aisling Bea were contestants on the 2018 series.
- Russell Brand, and Russell Tovey were contestants on the 2019 series.
- James Buckley, Joel Dommett, Alex Jones, and Joe Sugg were contetants on the 2020 series.
- Tom Allen, Nick Grimshaw, Reece Shearsmith, and John Bishop were contestants on the 2021 series.
- Blake Harrison, Katherine Kelly, Ben Miller, and Tracy-Ann Oberman were contestants on the 2022 series.
