Great British Bake Off

QI host says women perform cleverly but are then seen ‘just laughing at the boys’

A dozen amateur bakers from across the UK are lining up to impress Prue and Paul tonight

Channel 4’s ever-popular baking show returns for a ninth series next week

The Week rounds up the best picks for this evening’s television

Doctor Who, Call the Midwife and the first ever Channel 4 Bake-Off Christmas special

Current judge says he became ‘most hated man in Britain’ when he moved with show to Channel 4

Even a horrifically mistimed tweet from Prue couldn’t dampen viewers’ excitement

*NO SPOILERS* Prue Leith blames mix-up over time difference for hastily deleted tweet

Fortune cookie challenge and biscuit board games brought out the best in Twitter

Fans had a lot of feelings about first Channel 4 episode - but at least ad breaks gave them time to tweet about them

The new show features great chemistry, lashings of wit and plenty of soggy bottoms, say reviews

New presenters Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding will bring 'wit and quirkiness to the tent,' says Channel 4's Jay Hunt

'Cooking royalty' is also a novelist - who ran off with the husband of her mother's friend

Two special episodes will be programme's last hurrah before it transfers over to Channel 4

Tom Kerridge's GBBO spin-off 'got the recipe wrong' and turned out a show 'devoid of passion and identity'

Sports stars and a former Spice Girl will join Samantha Cameron and Ed Balls for charity bake off

Research company suggests packaged bread sales could be in 'terminal decline' thanks in part to home bakers

Richard may be the bookie's favourite, but he 'shouldn't count his cookies before they've baked'

Great British Bake Off contestant Diana Beard says BBC editing 'deliberately misled' viewers

Move from BBC1 to BBC2 need not have scared fans: it remains as light and playful as spun sugar

New BBC2 show makes Great British Bake-Off seem dangerously subversive by comparison

Ex-model says 'sod the haters' in opinion piece for The Guardian