Press clippings Page 15
The joy of Taskmaster, TV's funniest show
By setting comedians surreal challenges and watching them lose the plot, Greg Davies and Alex Horne have created a hit. As the series returns, they explain its twisted appeal.
Luke Holland, The Guardian, 3rd October 2020BBC One orders Greg Davies's The Cleaner
BBC One has commissioned a series called The Cleaner, written by and starring Greg Davies as a specialist cleaner of crime scenes.
British Comedy Guide, 26th August 2020America dumps Taskmaster after only one episode
One task that Taskmaster couldn't quite, erm, master is making it beyond a single episode on The CW. The U.K. panel game show has been dumped from the US network's Sunday schedule after it premiered to terrible numbers last weekend.
Will Thorne, Variety, 5th August 2020Taskmaster: the cult UK comedy coming to save the USA
This is no exaggeration. British comedy show Taskmaster is airing in the US for the first time and, just as it has in the UK, it will make Americans' lives better.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 31st July 2020Stath Lets Flats leads comedy results at BAFTA TV Awards 2020
Stath Lets Flats, Sian Clifford, Jamie Demetriou, Mo Gilligan, Romesh Ranganathan, Taskmaster and Gavin & Stacey were the winners in the BAFTA TV Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 31st July 2020Can Taskmaster make it in America?
A show about comedians performing bizarre tasks has won thousands of fans via YouTube reruns, and now The CW has picked it up.
Jeremy Fuster, The Wrap, 30th July 2020Taskmaster Series 10 line-up revealed
Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring will take part in Series 10 of Taskmaster.
British Comedy Guide, 29th July 2020Taskmaster now filming: how covid will change series 10
The new series of Taskmaster is currently filming and still set to air on Channel 4 in October. Alex Horne and Greg Davies tell Den of Geek what will be different this time around...
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 27th July 2020US network The CW picks up Taskmaster
US broadcast network The CW has acquired four unscripted shows to bolster its summer schedule, including UK comedy competition format Taskmaster.
Inigo Alexander, C21 Media, 17th June 2020Comedians of the month: lockdown edition
I cannot be alone in thinking that I have watched everything that Netflix, Sky Go and Amazon Prime have to offer, so any unheard-of recommendations that I find from friends, I cherish. Therefore, I thought I'd write my own cheat-sheet of comedy shows and podcasts that are easily accessible and will certainly distract you from everything going on in the news or on MyEd.
Honey Kettle, The Student Newspaper, 7th May 2020