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"Fern"

2011's shortlived C4 chat show (October 2019)

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Capybara
Hi everyone.

I would be extremely grateful if anybody could provide me with any photos/clips of Fern. It was a chat show on Channel 4 weekdays at 5pm which was axed after 4 weeks. If I remember correctly, I think it didn't do very well competing with The Paul O'Grady Show. It was produced by Cactus Television. I have viewed as much information as possible from the Wayback Machine's scan of the channel4.com/programmes/fern .

However, none of this has any trace or mention of the cake-baking competition that went on as a strand on the show. I would particularly like to find any information relating to this, which took place in the studio kitchen in London. A number of 'contestants' who were picked to appear on the show baked a cake. The worst one got sent off until there was a winner in the final. The winner was my mum, who made a cake of The Queen's "Back Garden Tea Party" round the back of Buckingham Palace in the final. She won a KitchenAid that she still uses today in her business, and she recalls that Jennie Bond was quite excited to meet her, and that they had a nice chat in the green room. It brings back a lot of memories of me and my nan running home from school and patiently waiting for Countdown to finish so we could watch her on TV.

Again, I would be extremely thankful if anyone could find any information regarding this. Thanks.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
This show was on in 2011, Paul O'Grady wasn't on at teatime at that point, it had come off Channel 4 in 2009 and then went back to ITV in 2013. You might have been thinking of Paul O'Grady Live, which wasn't in the 5pm slot of the old show anyway but was on air in 2011 on ITV.

You could write to the production company since they made it and all:
http://www.cactustv.co.uk/contact-us

You may do better actually writing rather than filling out the form on the website as it looks like it may attract copious submissions of all kinds (genuine and otherwise) and requests like yours may get lost in a deluge.

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