The Great British Bake Off: the Final
CHANNEL 4, 8.00PM
So here we are then. After nine weeks of melting sugar, collapsing showstoppers and doors falling off ovens The Great British Bake Off reaches its conclusion – and those of us who were sceptical about it surviving the leap to Channel 4 are busy eating our words. For it turns out that it was always the contestants who made Bake Off so great. Yes, Mel and Sue have been missed but Sandi and Noel have surprisingly good chemistry and Prue has been a stern delight. Paul of course remains Paul and thus still inexplicably prone to favouring cakes that reference Liverpool in some way (why yes, I am still bitter that lovely Liam went home).
The final three are an interesting bunch: the entertainingly accidentprone Kate has improved with each week, Sophie remains consistently excellent without ever seizing centre stage and Stephen appeared unstoppable at the beginning but has been less obviously the winner as the series progressed. That said, my money is still on him to emerge victorious – unless Kate tops her Royal Liver Building cake with a sugar spun recreation of Albert Dock, in which case, all bets are off. Sarah Hughes