As with any tried-and-tested recipe, the question for The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4) is whether you change it. Ratings were down by a million or so last year, but eight and a half million viewers is still a monster hit for any channel.

Alison Hammond steals the show but format is becoming overbaked - 3/5 Hammond brings the energy and endless innuendoes in a launch episode that feels like it’s trying to outrage middle England

Channel 4 viewers tuned in for the 15th series of The Great British Bake Off as a batch new bakers stepped into the tent for the first time but quickly got distracted by the opening sequence