This show is dead

The BBC can't justify spending silly money on a tent and some cookery equipment and a 'format', whichever parts can be deemed non-copyable.

And that silly money didn't even secure Mel, Sue, Mary or Paul. Paul still had to choose whether he wanted to stay with the show. He did the right thing - Channel 4 is, overall, regarded as an edgier channel and Paul's swarthy charm will fit in. The other 3 could afford to stick with the BBC because they're deemed fairly 'BBC' people, even though Mel and Sue started off on Channel 4.

Whether the producers did the right thing is arguably an arbitrary question because they've already made a load of money from something that wasn't rocket science - a cookery programme. It's Channel 4 who's taken the biggest risk but Channel 4 have demonstrated with many shows that they can make a massive number of series out of them, eg Big Brother, The Last Leg, Gogglebox, Deal or No Deal, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, even combining shows in the case of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. And Channel 4 are a surprising channel- sometimes they don't dumb down a show. I'd guess that they'll have a really classy main show and then a more irreverent offshoot of it.

The show remained exactly the same. Noel and Sandi were better than Mel and Sue. I don't care much for Matt, but even with him replacing Sandi the show is still the same.