Cooking Competition

Bake Off: The Professionals

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Image of The Great British Bake Off hosts Tom Allen and Liam Charles sitting on stools holding cakes with pastry chef judges Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin standing behind them.

Bake Off: The Professionals – Benoit Blin, Tom Allen, Liam Charles and Cherish Finden © Metro News

 

Production Company: Channel 4

Starring: Tom Allen, Liam Charles, Cherish Finden, and Benoit Blin

Kent Locations Used: Tunbridge Wells

Bake Off: The Professionals is back on Channel 4! The series is a baking competition, which features teams of pastry chefs competing against each other through various challenges.

Hosting the show will be comedian Tom Allen who previously appeared on BBC Three series Josh and So You Think You’re Funny. Joining him will be former Bake-Off contestant Liam Charles. Judging will be top pastry chefs Cherish Finden and Benoit Blin.

There will be ten episodes in total, and in episode one we see contestants Chris and Bjarni work at The Warren restaurant, Tunbridge Wells and forage in the nearby forest.

 

Image of contestants Chris and Bjarni in their white chefs uniform at work at The Warren restaurant in Tunbridge Wells

Bake Off: The Professionals – contestants Chris and Bjarni work at The Warren restaurant © The Sun

 

Tunbridge Wells is a popular film location and has previously featured Come Dine With Me (2013) and Britain’s Best Bakery (2012).

Don’t miss the first episode which airs on Sunday 06 May at 8pm on Channel 4 and see how our Kent pastry chefs fare.

 

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The Big Family Cooking Showdown (2017)

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Presenters standing behind cooking bench with cooking utensils, kitchen behind them

The Big Family Cooking Showdown – (C) Voltage TV Productions

Starring: Zoe Ball, Nadiya Hussain, Giorgio Locatelli and Rosemary Shrager

Production Company: Voltage TV

Kent Locations Used: The Quadrangle Trust

The Big Family Cooking Showdown is a brand new BBC cooking competition series where families compete to be the best home cooks. In

Group shot of presenters standing looking towards camera with kitchen bhind them

The Big Family Cooking Showdown – (C) Voltage TV Productions

each episode, two teams consisting of three family members, who compete in three cooking challenges. At the end of the three rounds, the judges select a winner for the quarter finals where they will face winners from other episodes.

The presenters of the series are Zoe Ball (Strictly Come Dancing) and Nadiya Hussain (winner of The Great British Bake Off in 2015). The judges of the series are Giorgio Locatelli (Italy Unpacked) and Rosemary Shrager (The Real Marigold Hotel).

The Quadrangle Trust in Shoreham, Sevenoaks, the building was transformed into a competition kitchen for the show and featured prominently in the series.

Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast (2016) was also filmed at The Quadrangle Trust in Shoreham. Other productions filmed in the Sevenoaks area include Good Enough to Eat and Rip Off Britain (2009).

The Big Family Cooking Showdown premiered on 15 August 2017, and the next episode will be released on Thursday 21 September 2017 on BBC Two.

 

For more information about Kent’s Filming History please visit our Movie Map.