Bake Off coverage draws a Blanc

Great British Bake Off finalists presenters (left to right) Ruby Tandoh, Mary Berry, Kimberley Wilson, Frances Quinn and Paul Hollywood. Photograph: Des Willie/BBC/PA There are three things to say after a week in which the Great British Bake Off scored the highest ratings for BBC2 in more than a decade (while Strictly walloped X-Factor ever more humiliatingly and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was finally put out of its misery at ITV1). One, with or without added yeast, is that on TV, as in life, what goes up also comes down. A second is that if the best story that Fleet Street could... read more