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Bake Off: The Professionals
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Bake Off: The Professionals
Also known as
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème
Genre
Cookery
Reality
Directed by
Emma Reynolds
Presented by
Tom Kerridge
Angus Deayton
Tom Allen
Liam Charles
Judges
Benoit Blin
Cherish Finden
Claire Clark
Theme music composer
Tom Howe
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language(s)
English
No. of series
3
No. of episodes
21
Production
Executive producer(s)
Anna Beattie
Richard Bowron
Richard McKerrow
Producer(s)
Kate Baller, Laura Smith
Production location(s)
Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, UK (2016)
Firle Place, East Sussex, UK (2017–18)
Running time
60 minutes
Production company(s)
Love Productions
Distributor
Channel 4
Release
Original network
BBC Two (2016–17)
Channel 4 (2018–)
Picture format
16:9
Audio format
Stereo
Original release
29 March 2016 (2016-03-29) – present
Chronology
Related shows
The Great British Bake Off
External links
Website
Bake Off: The Professionals (previously Bake Off: Crème de la Crème from 2016–2017) is a British television baking competition featuring teams of professional pastry chefs pit against one another through two different challenges. It is a spin-off from The Great British Bake Off, and its first episode was screened on BBC Two on 29 March 2016.[1] The eight-episode first series of the programme was presented by Tom Kerridge, with Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden and Claire Clark serving as judges.[2] The second series was presented by Angus Deayton, but Claire Clark did not return as a judge.[3] The third series moved to Channel 4 to join The Great British Bake Off after the BBC declined to renew the series.[4] The Channel 4 series has been renamed Bake Off: The Professionals, and is hosted by comedian Tom Allen and former contestant on the main series, Liam Charles.[5]
The first series was won by the Squires Kitchen Cookery School team led by Mark Tilling,[6] the second by a team of military chefs led by Liam Grime.[7] and the third by the team from London Hilton Park Lane with Emmanuel Bonneau.[8]
Contents
1 Format
2 Series overview
2.1 Series 1
2.2 Series 2
2.3 Series 3
3 Reception
4 Ratings
4.1 Series 1
4.2 Series 2
4.3 Series 3
5 References
6 External links
Format[edit]
The series is a competition between teams of professional pastry chefs from high-end hotels and restaurants, as well as supermarkets, armed forces and other companies and organisations. The competition aims to find the finest pastry chefs in the country, who can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary and can create desserts that have "stunning visual impact, phenomenal flavour, and texture."[1] Teams of pastry chefs are chosen for the competition, with three pastry chefs in each team in the first two series, one of them the team captain. In the third In the heats, teams of duo competed. the three teams are given two challenges and are awarded marks from the three judges for each of their creations, the team with the best total score after both challenges is guaranteed a place in the semifinal. The team with the highest total score throughout the whole of the heats is also guaranteed a place within the semifinal.[2]
Miniature Challenge
In this challenge each team have to create a batch of 3 different types of miniatures. All must be uniform in appearance, finished to the very highest professional standards and will only have three hours to make all 108 pastries. Each miniature is marked out of 30 with a total of 90 points available.
Showpiece Challenge
In this challenge each team are asked to reinvent a popular British dessert and present it as a fine-dining showpiece display. Each judge has 50 points they can award with a total of 150 points available.
The format changed between the first and second series. The first series started with 15 teams, three teams in each of the five heats, with the winning team each episode guaranteed a place in the semifinals, with one additional wild card from the heats. Three teams were selected from the two semifinals to compete in the final. The second series started with ten teams separated into two groups of five, with one team eliminated each episode over two sets of three heats before the semifinal.[3] The two winners from the two semifinal then compete in the final. The third series started with twelve teams, in two groups of six, again with one team eliminated in three sets of heats.[9] The remaining six teams, three from each group, then competed for a place in the quarterfinal, followed by the semifinal, leaving three teams in the final.
Series overview[edit]
Series
Episodes
Premiere
Final
Winning team
Runners-up
1
8 29 March 2016 17 May 2016 Squires Kitchen Cookery School London Hilton Park Lane
Boulangerie Jade
2
9 4 April 2017 31 May 2017 Military Chefs Cocorico Patisserie
3
10 6 May 2018 8 July 2018 London Hilton Park Lane Sweet Art Lab
Resorts World Birmingham
Series 1[edit]
The first series of the competition was filmed at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire,[10] It was presented by Tom Kerridge, and the competition was judged by Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden and Claire Clark.[2]
There were fifteen teams of pastry chefs in the first round. The team from Marks & Spencer, British Armed Forces, London's Boulangerie Jade, London Hilton on Park Lane, and Leed's Lauden Chocolate winning their respective heats to reach the semifinal, while Squires Kitchen Cookery School from Surrey also went through as the best scoring runners-up. The Squires Kitchen and Hilton teams won their semifinals, with Boulangerie Jade chosen for the third spot in the final. The competition was won by the team from Squires Kitchen led by Mark Tilling with his former pupils Helen Vass and Samantha Rain.[11]
Series 2[edit]
The second series was filmed at Firle Place, East Sussex. It was presented by Angus Deayton, with Blin and Finden as the two returning judges.
Ten teams competed in this series, some of whom also competed in the first series. The final was between a returning team, the Military Chefs, and a team from Cocorico Patisserie of Cardiff.[12] The competition was won by the Military Chefs with Liam Grime the team captain and two other RAF chefs, Ian Mark and Chris Morrell.[7]
Series 3[edit]
The third series was moved to Channel 4 and retitled Bake Off: The Professionals, with Tom Allen and Liam Charles as presenters.[13] Blin and Finden returned as judges.[14] Twelve teams competed in this series. The final was between three pairs: Emmanuel Bonneau and returning contestant Sam Leatherby from London Hilton on Park Lane, Darryl Collins and Bharat Chandegra from Resorts World in Birmingham and Hideko Kawa and Theo Beauchet, representing Sweet Art Lab in London. The competition was won by Emmanuel and Sam from London Hilton on Park Lane.[8]
Reception[edit]
Early reviews were largely negative, with many reviewers comparing it unfavourably to The Great British Bake Off, suggesting that it had lost the crucial elements that made the original Bake Off a success.[15] Michael Hogan of The Daily Telegraph complained that the new show "bore no resemblance to it whatsoever, thus seemed to be merely piggybacking cynically on the Bake-Off “brand". He also found two of the judges' accents as well as the scoring system "impenetrable", the baking "bafflingly scientific" and the teams not "terribly likeable". He concluded that Creme de la Creme "was nice but dull", and that as "a Bake-Off spin-off, it was a soggy-bottomed disaster. "[16] Many of the viewing public concurred with the assessments of the critics and found the show lacking the "charm, fun and warmth" of the original.[17] Chitra Ramaswamy of The Guardian thought that when the professional version of Bake Off gets serious means that "it gets silly", and he "found the format convoluted, which telly like this should never be."[18] Gabriel Tate of The Times found the show a to be a "bloodless, uninvolving affair at once frenetically busy and yawningly free of incident, full of astounding technical proficiency and jawdropping invention, but devoid of passion and identity."[19]
Ratings[edit]
The following ratings are from BARB.[20]
Series 1[edit]
Episode
no.
Airdate
Viewers
(millions)
BBC Two
weekly ranking
1 29 March 2016 (2016-03-29) 4.63 2
2 5 April 2016 (2016-04-05) 4.09 2
3 12 April 2016 (2016-04-12) 4.15 2
4 19 April 2016 (2016-04-19) 3.81 2
5 26 April 2016 (2016-04-26) 3.59 2
6 3 May 2016 (2016-05-03) 3.59 1
7 10 May 2016 (2016-05-10) 3.39 1
8 17 May 2016 (2016-05-17) 3.68 1
Series 2[edit]
Episode
no.
Airdate
Viewers
(millions)
BBC Two
weekly ranking
1 4 April 2017 (2017-04-04) 2.66 4
2 11 April 2017 (2017-04-11) 2.85 3
3 18 April 2017 (2017-04-18) 2.60 3
4 25 April 2017 (2017-04-25) 2.66 1
5 2 May 2017 (2017-05-02) 2.70 3
6 9 May 2017 (2017-05-09) 2.49 3
7 16 May 2017 (2017-05-16) 2.66 3
8 24 May 2017 (2017-05-24) 2.22 6
9 31 May 2017 (2017-05-31) 2.35 6
Series 3[edit]
Viewing figures for Channel 4 are total numbers including +1.
Episode
no.
Airdate
Viewers
(millions)
Channel 4
weekly ranking
1 6 May 2018 (2018-05-06) 2.21 4
2 13 May 2018 (2018-05-13) 2.19 3
3 20 May 2018 (2018-05-20) 2.29 2
4 27 May 2018 (2018-05-27) 2.13 4
5 3 June 2018 (2018-06-03) 1.52 7
6 10 June 2018 (2018-06-10) 1.92 3
7 17 June 2018 (2018-06-17) 1.84 4
8 24 June 2018 (2018-06-24) 1.83 4
9 1 July 2018 (2018-07-01) 1.59 5
10 8 July 2018 (2018-07-08) 2.17 3
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Alexander, Saffron (29 March 2016). "Everything you need to know about Bake Off: Creme de la Creme". The Daily Telegraph.
^ Jump up to: a b c "Great British Bake Off gets professional spin-off show". BBC. 2 December 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b "Bake Off Creme de la Creme is staying on the BBC – with a new host". Radio Times. 20 January 2017.
Jump up ^ Harrison, Ellie. "Bake Off spin-off Crème de la Crème will also leave the BBC for Channel 4". Radio Times. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
Jump up ^ http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2018/02/07/39088/tom_allen_joins_bake_off
Jump up ^ Lisa Jenkins (17 May 2016). "Team Tilling crowned winners of BBC2's Bake Off: Crème de la Crème". The Caterer.
^ Jump up to: a b Jenkins, Lisa (31 May 2017). "Military team triumphs as winner of Bake Off: Crème de la Crème". The Caterer.
^ Jump up to: a b "Who are the winners of Bake Off: The Professionals 2018?". Retrieved 2018-07-09.
Jump up ^ "Hosts with the most: Bake Off: The Professionals". The Great British Bake Off. 3 May 2018.
Jump up ^ "The grand home of Bake Off Crème de la Crème - Welbeck Abbey". Radio Times. 29 March 2016.
Jump up ^ Middleton, Howard (18 May 2016). "Bake Off: Crème de la Crème – the final". Great British Chefs.
Jump up ^ Bevan, Nathan (31 May 2017). "Cardiff's Cocorico Patisserie have narrowly lost out in the final of Bake Off: Creme de la Creme". Wales Online.
Jump up ^ Westbrook, Caroline (6 May 2018). "Bake Off The Professionals: Who are presenters Liam Charles and Tom Allen?". Metro.
Jump up ^ Westbrook, Caroline (1 May 2018). "Bake Off: The Professionals start date, presenters and who are the judges?". Metro.
Jump up ^ "Bake Off: Creme de la Creme gets a creaming from the critics". The Week. 30 March 2016.
Jump up ^ Hogan, Michael (30 March 2016). "Bake Off Crème de la Crème, review: 'a soggy-bottomed disaster'". The Daily Telegraph.
Jump up ^ Shepherd, Jack (30 March 2016). "Bake Off: Crème de la Crème is The Great British Bake Off without the 'charm, fun and warmth' according to Twitter". The Independent.
Jump up ^ Ramaswamy, Chitra (30 March 2016). "Three teams of professional pastry chefs compete in the Bake Off: Crème de la Crème". The Guardian.
Jump up ^ Tate, Gabriel (30 March 2016). "Bake Off: Creme de la Creme; The A Word". The Times.
Jump up ^ "Weekly Top 10 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board.
External links[edit]
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème at BBC Programmes
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème on IMDb
Bake Off: Crème de la Crème at UKGameshows.com
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