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It was with a degree of sadness that we waved goodbye to Liam during tonight’s Great British Bake Off. Personally, I was surprised he’d be even close to going out when he was so consistent, but it just goes to show just how quickly your fortunes can change if you have a bad week; so it was for Yan last time around and so it was for Liam tonight. Either way, he’s got a naturally lovely quality which I’m sure will stand him in good stead if he decides to persue baking in a media context. Whatever he does I’m sure the experience has given him confidence; he’s very self-assured for one so young. Here’s tonight’s tweets. Enjoy: 8:01PM: The Bake That Time Forgot. 8:01PM: I banged out three good bakes once. 8:02PM: The Bedfordshire Clanger was Oliver Postgate's favourite dessert. 8:03PM: Paul Hollywood's bits to camera are beautifully lit. 8:05PM: I've always favoured the Hertfordshire Professor Yaffle ...

Tonight’s Bake Off played right into my corner by being biscuit week. I am a biscuit fanatic, who’s been known to devour whole packets in a single day, working on the assumption that if no-one sees me do this, it didn’t happen; tell that to my expanding waistline. Inevitably, there were many biscuit-based wonders to marvel at this week, most notably of all Steven’s exceptional fully-functioning chess board. The fortune cookie round was a little unfair in my opinion, but what do I know?: I don't make biscuits, I just eat them. See below for tonight’s Twitter ramblings; reading it will kill a few minutes. 8:03PM: I bet, like Alan Partridge, Paul has Castrol GTX on the back of his jacket. 8:06PM: Week Two in the Bake Off Tent and Flo's dentures still haven't settled. 8:08PM: I'll give you an adult-only filling. 8:10PM: I liked the insincerity of Stacey's son's, "I love you: bye...

And so, that’s it. The last BBC series of The Great British Bake Off draws to a close, with an ending more emotional than the final shot of Blackadder Goes Forth spliced with the snowman melting to the tune of Aled Jones. It’s sad to think it’s done, and the dream team of Mel, Sue, Paul & Mary must part (until the BBC entices the majority of them back with a different format). In the same way that Brexit means Brexit, C4 no doubt means C4. Still, it was fun while it lasted. Who knows?: maybe the move will breathe new life into the proverbial oven; we’ll have to wait and see. Below you’ll find tonight's live tweets. I’m glad Candice won, though I did mourn the lack of Selasi. How long before he hosts a show with Nadiya? Not long, I hope. 8:01pm: Continuity Announcer: "...but who will be crowned as the winner?" (Answer: Love Productions, at £25million). 8:02pm: Andrew Eddie Red(head)mayne. 8:03pm: Paul Hollyw...

I like a TV listing that cuts to the chase. There’s no pussyfooting about there, if you pardon the pun. Anyone foolish enough to be looking for something to watch before six this morning would have been under no illusions as to what was on Channel 4 after reading that in the Radio Times. The previous sentence was longer than Id hoped, but I don’t have the same capacity for economy as the world's first listings magazine. I’m surprised that Small Animal Hospital could stretch out the subject of an ill cat for a - get this - 45-minute television programme, though admittedly, that running time would have included adverts. I guess the show’s producers have to pad things out, now that Rolf Harris isn't available (assuming it’s related to the Animal Hospital of-similar-name). Radio Times’ brusqueness today was in stark contrast to the most convoluted newspaper headline of all time, which - though it featured in the local press sevente...