Season 4 was the 2013 run here in the UK. As far as any programme about making cakes can have excitement, this series had it! Not so much within the show but gossip that there was favouritism going on. It even reached the serious news programmes.
Not as much contraversy as Season 5 where, in due course, overseas viewers will see the episode referred to as Bingate or Fridgegate.
I can’t recall the episode that grey is referring to but, in general, a traditional British pie dish is as the American one described - fairly shallow with sloping sides. However, deeper, straight-sided ones are also common - I’d think of them more for savoury pies than sweet (but I’m not a baker) I assume they had been told to use a deeper dish so as to make a pie that was more visually attractive for TV.
