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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, Berkshire, Channel 4 year two
Premiered
Aug 28, 2018
Channel 4 · Tuesday evenings
Episodes
10
10 episodes across the run
Format
12 bakers · 10 episodes · Channel 4
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
01The take

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.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #07 slot.

Slot #07 of 10 in the The Great British Bake Off Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.

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06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Also appears in
The Great British Bake Off S9 — The Channel 4 Settles — tiered.tv