GBBO on Channel 4....what are we thinking?

[Ash]

For the same reason that any challenge-based programme is popular. People perform the tasks with varying degrees of success (sometimes failing hilariously), while viewers pick favourites and enjoy the banter that goes on in between.

So a bit like the Generation Game then?

[PSRB]

So a bit like the Generation Game then?

I used to love that. The original version(s) with Brucie and Larry (I forget which) and Isla St.Clair

[Sir C]

So a bit like the Generation Game then?

The Generation Game was excellent. Brucey was best, but Larry grew into the role #shutthatdoor #slackalice

[World's End Stella]

He does seem nice. However, most of them are plainly hateful and I sincerely hope they all get amoebic dysentery.

Which BB member is on it?

[Burney]

So a bit like the Generation Game then?

A bit. But not as common.

[Burney]

Which BB member is on it?

I wouldn't know. I recognised about 4 people in it.

[Burney]

I used to love that. The original version(s) with Brucie and Larry (I forget which) and Isla St.Clair

Yes. A camp comic and a sexless scotch folk singer. Odd choice to host a gameshow when you think about it.

[Ash]

A bit. But not as common.

I used to get to watch it at my nan's. Would never be on in our house.

[Sir C]

I used to get to watch it at my nan's. Would never be on in our house.

Hostess trolley, teasmaid, socket set, vase, cuddly toy, alarm clock, conveyor belt, set of sliding doors..

[Ash]

Hostess trolley, teasmaid, socket set, vase, cuddly toy, alarm clock, conveyor belt, set of sliding doors..

I was sternly told that it was a salient lesson in the vulgarity of people being prepared to humiliate themselves in pursuit of a few gaudy trinkets.