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Erika (17789 KP) rated The Great British Bake Off in TV

Oct 25, 2020 (Updated Oct 25, 2020)

The Great British Bake Off

2010 | Documentary, Drama, Family, Reality-TV

8.0

(93 Ratings)

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I absolutely LOVE Bake Off! There are not enough words to describe how much I love watching it. I first saw Bake Off when I was heading home on a British Airways flight six years ago (yes, I remember), and have been hooked every since. I did prefer when it was aired on PBS, rather than Netflix here in the US.
I am super confused as to why the name of this show was changed to 'Baking Show'. I still call it Bake Off because it's the fricken name.
The challenges are fun, and the casts each year are super entertaining. While I did really like Mel and Sue as the presenters, I love Noel, and my brother and I constantly hunt for The Mighty Boosh references (Old Gregg reference are our fav). I think Matt Lucas was a good choice for this series, but I'm still lukewarm on him.

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Sarah (7800 KP) Oct 25, 2020

Have to admit I've always been a fan of Matt Lucas so I'm loving him on this. I've laughed so much at the current series!

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated We Don't Wanna Hear About It by The Sidemen in Music

Jul 11, 2019

Featuring bassist Maddie Jay of Maddie Jay and the pH Collective and drummer Jonah Summerfield, The Sidemen bring us back to patent leather, pivot-on-the-heel kind of 80s funk. There is a reference to Morris Day on their website bio and that is not wrong. The Sidemen are able to take influences from the age of glitter and wooden heels, and create something new; and maybe someone is putting their finger on a problem we have today:

“Does anyone know what I’ve done with myself?
We don’t want to hear about it...”
— The Sidemen

It's a nice thing, connecting with an audience on weirdness; in this world of digital media, it is everything. The Sidemen are able to keep in contact with their considerable fan base through the magic of internets; I am still trying to figure that out; I think there are tubes involved.