'The Great British Sewing Bee' Returns to the BBC

After the disastrous experience over renewing The Great British Bake Off (known in America as The Great British Baking Show), the BBC seems to have patched things up with the Love Productions and renewed the spin-off series The Great British Sewing Bee.

Fans of The Great British Baking Show will be in for a little bit of a shock when the show returns to televisions in the States this summer if they haven't been paying close attention. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, plus hosts Sue & Mel are all getting younger. That's because instead of the new season of Bake Off, PBS will be airing a much older season, Season 3. Why is Baking Show going backward? Because during the long delay between the airing of the seasons in the UK and the airing of them here in the states, the show has changed stations.

After seven seasons on the BBC, four of which have aired here in the States thus far, and ratings through the roof, owner Love Productions demanded £25 million to stay at the BBC in fall of 2016, a sum the taxpayer-funded channel couldn't begin to afford. Thus The Great British Bake Off moved, bag and baggage, to Channel 4 in 2017. The fallout was ugly, with Berry, Sue & Mel, all of whom star in other BBC-produced shows, siding with the BBC and quitting the series. Meanwhile, the BBC was so upset it suspended any further work on their other Love Production series: Bake Off: Creme de La Creme, The Great British Sewing Bee, and The Great Pottery Throwdown.