Here's the show Netflix regrets not acquiring
LOS ANGELES -- Even Netflix has programming regrets.
Though the streaming giant is home to countless popular originals -- including the recent Gilmore Girls revival -- there are still shows the platform wish it had acquired.
One of the shows on the Los Gatos-based company's wish list? The beloved BBC hit The Great British Bake Off.
Next season, the television series is transitioning from the BBC to Channel 4. Netflix already has two popular British offerings: Charlie Brooker's dystopian anthology Black Mirror and Peter Morgan's The Crown.
"I wish we’d had a shot at Bake Off," Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said in an interview with The Telegraph last week. "It moved very quickly, and we didn’t. The show’s very, very popular on Netflix, all over the place, so we would’ve definitely been interested.”
"I wish we’d had a shot at Bake Off"
Bake Off is moving because its production company (Love Productions) was unable to reach an agreement with the BBC on money. Channel 4 reportedly paid around $31.2 million per year for the series.
In addition to leaving its original broadcasting home, the cooking show will also lose judge Mary Berry and TV presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins. The only star remaining on the show is judge Paul Hollywood.
With 15.9 million viewers, the show's seventh season finale -- its last episode on BBC -- was the most watched TV program in the UK since 2012.
Saba was a Los Angeles-based reporter who covers all things digital entertainment, including YouTube, streaming services and digital influencers. Prior to that, she spent two years at the Los Angeles Times covering entertainment for the Calendar and Company Town sections. Saba grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism and B.A. in political science. When not reporting, she is usually binge watching shows online or looking for new coffee shops to frequent.
