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Bake Off gets 7.3 MILLION viewers – up one million on last year’s series opener

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A million extra viewers tuned in to the launch of the new series of Bake Off on Channel 4 last night - making it the most watched opening episode of the show ever.

Tuesday night's series premiere beat last year’s opening episode by 1.3 million viewers. With the episode hitting a peak audience of 7.9 million it also represents Channel 4’s largest broadcast of the year so far - and beat the channel's first ever episode of the Bake Off in 2017 by 500,000.

Before 2017 Bake Off was shown on the BBC. With comedian Matt Lucas taking over from outgoing co-host Sandi Toksvig this time around it would appear fans were particularly keen to get their first look of the show’s new format.

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