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Aired late summer 2019 · Sandi Toksvig's last run at the tent flap

Sandi's Final Year

The final series with Sandi Toksvig at the tent flap. Toksvig and Noel Fielding work their last run as a presenter pair, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood anchor a bench that reads fully settled, and the casting class arrives confident in what Bake Off is by this point. The technical challenges land with the bench's familiar discipline, and the broadcast trusts the room. A useful study in a settled-era series doing exactly what the format asks of it.

Filmed
Welford Park, Berkshire
Welford Park's sixth and final year before the pandemic relocates the tent
Premiered
Aug 27, 2019
Channel 4 · Tuesday evenings
Episodes
10
Unbroken since Harptree, ten episodes mark an eighth year running.
Format
Toksvig-Fielding pairing's last run
the Toksvig-Fielding presenter pair's final run together
Host
Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding
Sandi Toksvig's final year at the tent flap
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

A season built on discipline.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #09 slot.

Slot #09 of 16 in the Great British Bake Off Editor's Canon. The final series with Sandi Toksvig at the tent flap, and a quiet end-of-era piece of television. Toksvig and Noel Fielding work their last run as a presenter pair, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood anchor a bench that reads fully settled, and the casting class arrives confident in what Bake Off is by this point. The technical challenges land with the bench's by-now-familiar discipline, the showstoppers push craft without showing off, and the broadcast trusts the room. Worth the watch for a study in a settled-era series doing exactly what the format asks of it, and for the texture of a lineup quietly closing a chapter.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

The tent moved more than the show admitslist · 14 entriesThe Great British Bake Off — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #09