{"id":2021203,"date":"2025-09-14T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021203"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:08:57","slug":"this-show-is-blowing-up-on-netflix-after-being-rejected-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-show-is-blowing-up-on-netflix-after-being-rejected-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"This Show Is Blowing Up on Netflix After Being Rejected for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The latest season (a.k.a. Collection 13) premiered on Netflix on September 5, with new episodes rolling out every Friday. But here\u2019s the wild part: this feel-good hit almost never made it to air. Co-creator Richard McKerrow recently shared with <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/watchinamerica.com\/news\/great-british-bake-off-rejected-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Watch in America<\/a> <\/em>that <em>Bake Off<\/em> was rejected by networks for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pitched <em>Bake Off<\/em> for four or five years. We were told it would be like watching paint dry, no one was interested,\u201d McKerrow said.<\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026 clearly, they were very wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As for the new season, familiar faces are back in the tent: Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith return as judges, while comedian Noel Fielding and TV host Alison Hammond are back as co-hosts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.purewow.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest season (a.k.a. Collection 13) premiered on Netflix on September 5, with new episodes rolling out every Friday. But here\u2019s the wild part: this feel-good hit almost never made it to air. Co-creator Richard McKerrow recently shared with Watch in America that Bake Off was rejected by networks for years. \u201cWe pitched Bake Off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2021204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/This-Show-Is-Blowing-Up-on-Netflix-After-Being-Rejected.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}