CBS has got a potentially tasty bun in its development oven: The Eye has landed U.S. rights to the U.K. hit The Great British Bake Off. The show, as the title implies, is all about amateur cooks trying to Top Chef their way to a cash prize by whipping up the tastiest sweet and savory confections. The most recent season of the show just wrapped with its biggest audience ever, and industry insiders say multiple U.S. networks were interested in the format (which carries the working title here of simply Bake Off). CBS has ordered the show as a series and hopes to get it on the air sometime next year. Paging Pillsbury …
