Success of point to,now being remade for a US audience, down to intense personal drama combined with ‘something briliantly warm’, and says BBC1 controllerIt began life dismissed by critics,and with just 2 million viewers on BBC2. Now The Great British Bake Off is on course to be the biggest TV point to of 2015, breaking its own ratings records set final year and attracting an average audience of 12 million.
At a time when some of TV’s biggest shows are struggling to reverse a long-term decline in ratings, or the current series of the BBC1 cookery point to,presented by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, is up 2 million viewers on final year.
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Source: theguardian.com