Channel 4 have confirmed when The Great British Bake Off will be back on our screens - and there isn’t long to wait.
The hit programme is one of the many shows to have its air date delayed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
But on Tuesday, September 22 the famous tent will open its doors again.
The news was shared on Instagram, with a message that read: “Put a little love in your tart. Join us on Tuesday 22nd September for the return of The Great British Bake Off!”
Channel 4 bosses went to extreme lengths to ensure this year’s series could be filmed amid the Covid-19 pandemic and restrictions on gatherings and workplaces remained in place.
The entire crew, presenting team and bakers are believed to have formed a “social bubble” for the six weeks of filming.
Channel 4’s deputy director of programmes, Kelly Webb-Lamb, previously explained: "We have worked hard with them to put testing and quarantine regimes in place beforehand for all talent, all cast, all crew, so that when we go into the bubble we know everyone there is negative.
"The car you're driving to set also has to be quarantined. Nobody can have been in it for the time of quarantine and then everything that comes on to set has to be properly disinfected to protect everybody. That means that set is Covid-secure and that enables a little bit more flexibility - so in the tent what you will see looks like normal Bake Off because it is normal Bake Off.”
There will be one difference though. This year’s series will include Matt Lucas’s debut as presenter, after Sandi Toksvig announced her decision to step down back in January.
