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    The recipe for a better 'Bake-Off'? Fun format, good casting, and less host shtick

    The Great British Baking Show has had a long and bumpy ride, but it's finally righted the ship by focusing on the fundamentals.
    by Linda Holmes Oct 21, 2023 2 minutes
    <em>The Great British Baking Show</em> has had a long and bumpy ride, but it's finally righted the ship by focusing on the fundamentals.

    I think last season of The Great Britishwas the first one I didn't gobble up (no pun intended) the minute the episodes dropped. I had grown weary of the hosting team of Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas, frustrated with overly complicated bakes that were almost impossible to execute well, and dismayed at repeated and on "ethnic" food weeks that didn't even seem to represent good-faith efforts to get things right.

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