Imagine all the binge watching of The Great British Bake Off we could have enjoyed had Netflix snaffled up the series...

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos has admitted they almost had their cake and ate it (and possibly something about eggs and a basket?), but were a bit "too slow off the mark".

"We knew it was brewing, but I didn't actually think it would happen," Sarandos told the Radio Times. He then replied "yes, yes" when he was asked whether they'd been "too slow off the mark".

The BBC lost their rights to the much-loved production after Channel 4 brought it for a deal reportedly worth around £75million.

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Judge Paul Hollywood announced that he would be moving with the series, while Mary Berry and hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc would be bowing down due to their loyalty to the BBC.

But Netflix did acquire the rights to Channel 4's Black Mirror, although Channel 4's chief creative officer Jay Hunt had said following its move that Charlie Brooker's dystopian hit series "couldn't be a more Channel 4 show", and that the channel "grew it from a dangerous idea to a brand that resonated globally".

However, Sarandos retaliated by suggesting that writer and broadcaster Brooker wouldn't be too pleased that the broadcast proprietors were taking responsibility for its success and cult following.

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"I think Charlie Brooker would take great exception to the notion that they developed the show," he continued.

"That is the work of Charlie Brooker, who is a brilliant television creator, and the ambitions that he and (executive producer) Annabel Jones had for the new season were... seemingly out of reach or beyond the appetite that Channel 4 had for the show.

"So they cancelled it. And we picked it up."

Safe to say the oven gloves are *off* here...

Season 3 of Black Mirror stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve and Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn. And there's a further six episodes coming to Netflix in 2017.

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