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Cuckoo season four review
Having killed off its title character three seasons ago, this perky comedy revels in an anything-can-happen perversity.
Tim Dowling, The Guardian, 4th August 2018Review: Cuckoo, BBC Three, series 4, episode 1
All this really needs is a few more laughs.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd August 2018Greg Davies interview
"It's nice that I'm humiliating my mother internationally now."
Jessica Barrett, i Newspaper, 12th July 2018Taskmaster Series 7 line-up revealed
Contestants have been revealed for the next series of Taskmaster. The players in the seventh series of Dave's hit comedy will be James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Phil Wang, Kerry Godliman and Rhod Gilbert.
British Comedy Guide, 4th July 2018Taskmaster, which started as a comedy routine at the Edinburgh Fringe, has become the most popular show in Dave's admittedly short and unspectacular history -- such a success that another three series have been commissioned. That's good news for anyone who can't get enough of stand-ups and comic actors creating art with whipped cream or hurling dolls into trees.
It works because the five contestants, who this time include one-liner king Tim Vine and sitcom stalwart Liza Tarbuck, happily submit to the show's sadistic style. Watching them make fools of themselves is quite entertaining: seeing presenter Greg Davies mock and sneer at their efforts can be shamefully funny.
Creator of the concept, and butt of Greg's harshest jibes, is Alex Horne, who also oversees all the tasks. He understands the importance of a rigid format, and each episode follows a precise rhythm. It's possible to gauge almost to the second when he will make a self-conscious quip, or a jangling piano will introduce a clip to introduce the next task.
Eventually the format will become stale, changes will be introduced, and the whole thing will fall apart. For now, we can wallow in telly that manages to be inane, spiteful and hilarious at the same time.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 24th May 2018Taskmaster: TV's best comedy is back, bigger and better
The best comedy of 2017 is back - bigger and better than ever.
James Croot, Stuff.co.nz, 15th May 2018Taskmaster gets record ratings
Taskmaster Series 6 has got off to a strong start, with overnight figures suggesting the opening episode peaked with over 778,000 viewers, the highest rating in the show's history.
British Comedy Guide, 3rd May 2018The daft panel show returns for a sixth series, with Greg Davies and Alex Horne doling out challenges both inane and insane. Alice Levine, Liza Tarbuck, Russell Howard, Tim Vine and Asim "Chabuddy G" Chaudhry are their victims, taking on lemons, wheelbarrows and orienteering in this opening episode.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 2nd May 2018TV review: Taskmaster, Series 6, Dave
This programme is getting so popular it can only be a matter of time before Taskmaster becomes an Olympic sport.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th April 2018Fall in love with UK's Taskmaster before US ruins it
Because Taskmaster could be the next Whose Line Is It Anyway?
James Watkins, Ozy, 25th April 2018