Picture: Love Productions
The Great British Baking Show (aka The Great British Bake Off) has now been a staple of the Netflix US Original library for the past few years, but will it be back for a new season? The answer is yes, but Netflix’s plans for the new series haven’t been announced yet.
Netflix in the United States has been the streaming home for The Great British Baking Show for a number of years now, having had the PBS series through the 2010s before picking up the show exclusively in 2018. Since then, new seasons have come annually, and we’ve also seen a bunch of the spin-offs join the streamer.
Please note that the following is all speculation based on previous seasons and is subject to change. We’ll keep you posted as soon as we get it, so keep this page bookmarked.
When will Collection 12 of The Great British Baking Show be on Netflix?
The show has already been renewed for series 15 (or collection 12, as Netflix labels it because it doesn’t include the PBS seasons), and applications for the new season open since October 2023. Applications were being accepted through January 2nd of this year. Filming for the new season will take 21 days over ten weeks between April and August 2024.
Netflix always gets new episodes just a few days after they aired in the UK (typically on Fridays). That’s always in September, so we’re expecting ten weeks of Baking Show goodness beginning in late September 2024 through to late November/early December.
The new season is expected to be filmed at Welford Park again, and Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond are expected to return to host, with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith judging.
While Netflix hasn’t publicly outlined its arrangement with Love Productions for the rights to The Great British Baking Show, our current understanding is that it has an agreement for ten years through 2028. At the very least, that’s when all prior seasons are set to expire.
What about the Great British Baking Show Spin-offs?
Netflix US is home to three spin-offs of The Great British Baking Show, but unlike the flagship series, they don’t get new episodes promptly.
For the first time in recent years, Netflix picked up a few spin-off shows, including The Professionals spin-off, which arrived on Netflix US in February 2023. Season 6 arrived in February, and season 7 dropped in July 2023. We’re expecting season 8, which aired on Channel 4 between July and September 2023, to arrive sometime in 2024.
For the past two years, Netflix has been getting the spin-off series Great British Baking Show: Juniors in the middle of the year. So expect that again, given that Netflix is behind by two seasons. They currently house seasons 6 and 7, with seasons 8 and 9 released in early 2023 and 2024, respectively.
Finally, you have the holiday specials, which are always a year behind on Netflix. Without exception, new seasons of that spin-off have dropped on Netflix annually in either November or December, so we expect season 7 to arrive in late 2024.
Are you looking forward to another season of The Great Baking Show on Netflix in 2024? Let us know in the comments.
Rating: TV-PG
