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ShowsThe Great British Bake OffSeason 9
Aired late summer 2018 · Channel 4, year two

The Channel 4 Settles

The series the Channel 4 lineup stopped being new. Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding had a year of tent-banter under them, Prue Leith had settled into her side of the bench next to Paul Hollywood, and the casting class arrived dense end to end. The technical challenges sharpen across the run, and the editing trusts the room to do the work without underlining it. A useful study in a format-wide lineup change becoming a settled house style.

Filmed
Welford Park, Berkshire
Welford Park's fifth year, one of six straight before the pandemic forces a move
Premiered
Aug 28, 2018
Channel 4 · Tuesday evenings
Episodes
10
Channel 4's second year, still ten episodes — a seventh straight year.
Format
New lineup's second year settles in
the new lineup running smoothly in its second year
Host
Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding
Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding, settled 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

The bench arrives fully stocked.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #07 slot.

Slot #07 of 16 in the Great British Bake Off Editor's Canon. The series the Channel 4 lineup stopped being new. Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding had a year of tent-banter under them by this point, Prue Leith had settled into her side of the bench next to Paul Hollywood, and the casting class arrived dense end to end. The technical challenges sharpen across the run, the showstoppers carry visible craft, and the editing trusts the room to do the work without underlining it. The Hollywood handshake reads as part of the bench's vocabulary now rather than a novelty. A useful series for studying how a format-wide lineup change becomes a settled house style, and one of the cleanest Channel 4 runs.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

Running on muscle memorylist · 21 entriesThe Great British Bake Off — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #07