Just misses the sweet spot
The Independent|September 14, 2022
The latest season of 'The Great British Bake Off' has all the ingredients you'd expect, but that's the problem. There's too much cake and not enough originality, writes Sean O'Grady
Sean O'Grady
Just misses the sweet spot

It's back then, and it's probably just as well. Such is the comforting power of The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4); it seems unthinkable it would have been cancelled or postponed merely because the Queen had passed on. Indeed, that very and the emotional trauma it has inflicted on a nation and a Commonwealth of about 2.5 billion people, makes it imperative fact, that judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood and their sweetly charming contestants get the mixing bowl out to salve the collective hurt.

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