BBC's Inside the Factory gets brand new home under new host Paddy McGuinness

it's been a staple of BBC2 since 2015 but Inside the Factory is moving this Christmas

Inside the Factory is shifting to BBC1 for the archetypal time, to coincide with Paddy McGuinness taking implicit connected the long-running bid from Gregg Wallace.

The bid has been connected BBC2 since it archetypal launched successful 2015, and volition marque its debut quality connected the main transmission successful a Christmas peculiar alongside caller big Paddy. One BBC root told the Mirror : “It’s go specified a large amusement connected BBC2 and is truthful good established, we thought it was clip to marque it disposable to an adjacent bigger assemblage connected BBC1.”

Current co-presenter Cherry Healey and historiographer Ruth Goodman volition stay with the show, joining Paddy for festive amusive and for the ninth bid erstwhile it kicks disconnected successful January.

Landing the occupation earlier this year, pursuing the demise of his BBC shows Top Gear and A Question of Sport, Paddy said: “One of my archetypal jobs was successful a mill truthful I’ve travel afloat circle. I’m fascinated by the machinery and the radical who marque it each tick. Hairnets aside, I can’t hold to get cracking.”

At Christmas, Paddy kicks disconnected by going down the scenes successful a mill successful Belgium that makes 4 cardinal cocoa seashells each day. Enjoying the galore sensation tests, helium discovers however hazelnuts are roasted with sweetener to make a saccharine praline filling, which is past pumped into cocoa seashell shaped moulds.

Elsewhere successful the episode, Cherry explores the art, oregon alternatively the maths, of Christmas Tree decoration portion Ruth explores however Belgian cocoa became world-famous, and delves into the European origins of Santa Claus.

The series, which explores the secrets of the machines that nutrient our mundane products, has go a steadfast favourite with viewers. BBC specializer factual brag Jack Bootle said Paddy would bring “new energy” to the show. “Inside the Factory is 1 of the BBC’s best-loved factual brands. It deserves to person a large prima astatine the helm,” helium added. “I’m unbelievably excited that Paddy is putting connected his achromatic overgarment and rising to the challenge. He has a passionateness for accumulation and engineering that’s intolerable to fake.”

MasterChef prima Wallace, 58, discontinue the amusement earlier this twelvemonth aft contention implicit “inappropriate” comments made to a pistillate mill idiosyncratic astir her appearance. The incident, astatine a Nestlé mill successful York, is said to person contributed to his determination to quit, though helium besides wants to walk much clip with his three-year-old lad Sid, who has autism.

At the clip helium said: “For me, filming the amusement alongside my different TV and household commitments has ever been a equilibrium and arsenic my lad Sid’s needs go much challenging, I’ve decided the clip has travel to bent up my hairnet.”

At the play Paddy, 51, revealed connected his Radio 2 amusement that helium has smashed the £10million people for Children successful Need with his 300-mile endurance rhythm from Wrexham to Glasgow.

He present has to get a tattoo of his Chopper bike, arsenic pledged to listeners connected the time helium completed the challenge, with the fund-raising full present lasting astatine £10,319,707.

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