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CBS Greenlights Reality Competition Series Based On ‘The Great British Bake Off’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 4:15pm PDTTags: bake-off, CBS
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UK’s The Great British Bake Off, considered one of the hottest international reality formats at the moment, will get an U.S. adaptation by CBS. In a competitive situation, CBS has given a straight-to-series order to Bake Off (working title) for a launch next year. It will feature skilled amateur Americans competing in baking challenges with one ultimately being crowned the winner.

The Great British Bake Off, produced by Love Prods. and hosted by food writer Mary Berry and professional baker Paul Hollywood, has become a sleeper hit for BBC2, exploding in popularity since its 2010 launch. Last night’s third season finale peaked with 7.2 million viewers and averaged a series high 6.54 million (25.3% share among British viewers), beating its competitors on the more established BBC One and ITV1. The format has been successfully adapted on DR-1 in Denmark and on TV4 in Sweden, where it ranks as the highest rated show in the channel’s history. It also has been sold in Belgium, Poland, Australia, Ireland, Norway and France. Love Prods. USA will produce the CBS series with Richard McKerrow, executive producer on the original series, executive producing. CBS, NBC and ABC had been looking to enter the lucrative food reality space and join Fox, home of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and MasterChef, and Bravo, which has Top Chef.

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Six Scripts Vie For Pilot Orders At AMC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 7:01am PDTTags: AMC, bake-off
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EXCLUSIVE: In what has become a network tradition, AMC held its pilot script showcase last week. The annual event, nicknamed by agents and producers “bake-off,” once again featured six scripts identified by AMC brass as the strongest pilot contenders. In … Read More »

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Three AMC Projects Heat Up As Cable Network Gets Ready To Make Pilot Pickups

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 24, 2011 @ 6:20pm PDTTags: AMC, bake-off, The 4th Estate, The Man With The Golden Ears, TV Scripts, Voyage
Nellie Andreeva

There is a lot of buzz building for three of the six AMC scripts that took part in the network’s annual pilot script “bake-off” earlier this month: Voyage, The Man With the Golden Ears and The 4th Estate. In the “bake-off,” six scripts identified by AMC brass faced off in a series of elaborate presentations, with the producing team for each project showing a promo reel and each creator pitching in detail the series beyond the pilot, including mapping out the first season. AMC brass are not expected to make a decision until the week of April 4, when they will probably pick up one or two of the scripts to pilots, but three of the six finalists have been getting a lot of buzz. Read More »

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AMC Spices Up Development Process With Script Bake-Off, Winners To Get Pilot Orders

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 11, 2011 @ 7:47pm PSTTags: AMC, bake-off, David Fincher, House of Cards, Kevin Spacey, pilots, Scripts
Nellie Andreeva

What’s cooking at AMC? It’s the cable network’s second annual pilot script showcase called “bake-off,” which took place from Monday to Thursday this week at a hotel in Los Angeles. In it, six scripts identified by AMC brass as finalists … Read More »

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