‘The Great British Bake Off’ Showrunner Admits Much-Criticized Season 13 Was “Not Our Strongest”
deadline.comThe Great British Bake Off‘s executive producer has said that people were justified in criticizing Season 13 of the hit competition series.
Critics including Scott Bryan, a self-confessed Bake Off superfan, said the Channel 4 show’s challenges became overly complicated and Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith’s judging was too harsh.
Bake Off, known as The British Baking Show on Netflix in the U.S., was also criticized for being culturally insensitive to Mexico, as hosts Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding sported sombreros for a taco-themed task.
Richard McKerrow, Chief Executive of Bake Off producer Love Productions, told The Media Podcast that the production team is working to put things right for Season 14, which shoots in April. “I’d be the first to hold up our hands and say that I feel that the last series was not our strongest,” McKerrow said. “You’ve got to take a look at it and go, ‘Shit, [are] the challenges too complicated?’ We’re looking very, very, very hard at making sure that it’s as good a series as it can be.” He suggested that there may have been fatigue last year, having produced the two previous seasons in lockdown conditions during the pandemic. “We had two series, which we had to film during Covid.
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