Taskmaster
- TV comedy
- Channel 4 / U&Dave
- 2015 - 2025
- 171 episodes (18 series)
TV format in which Greg Davies and Alex Horne set a group of comedians various outlandish challenges. Also features Romesh Ranganathan, Frank Skinner, Roisin Conaty, Josh Widdicombe, Tim Key and more.
- Returns on Sunday 29th December on C4 at 9pm with New Year Special
Streaming rank this week: 98
Press clippings Page 18
A new series of Taskmaster began, which has every promise to match the highs of the last. Chief among the promiseers in series 11 is Sarah Kendall, the driest of Aussies, yet we also have grumpy Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack and the like, and the mix works (again) wonderfully well, crushing together those who will solve an impossible problem in methodical fashion and those who will throw proven natural laws to all 13 winds. Trapping a giant motorised rat in a net from three metres away, conveying 24 unbroken dinner plates on a hoverboard through a hangar, inviting a helium balloon to behave - never mind Taskmaster, this should be the primary task for all diplomats and wannabe 007s. As ever, creator Alex Horne and Taskmaster Greg Davies fashion great humour from abject failure. I think Greg's resolutely kind demolition of Charlotte Ritchie - "you didn't think your left hand was for anything?" - represents a touchstone in anthropology.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 21st March 2021Taskmaster review
As easy as keeping a cushion spinning on a finger.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 19th March 2021TV review: Taskmaster, Series 11, Episode 1
This opening episode was one of the strongest out of all of them, and I'd be amazed if by the end this wasn't seen as one of the best, right up their with series 5 and 7.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 19th March 2021Taskmaster brought theatrical silliness to panel shows
The Greg Davies-fronted show is a hit for Channel 4 after making the leap from Dave, but execs took some convincing that it could work, creator Alex Horne tells Isobel Lewis.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 18th March 2021Female stand-ups on panel shows: one in one out
Taskmaster has welcomed only 11 female stand-up comedians in six years.
Mark Muldoon, i Newspaper, 18th March 2021Alex Horne interview
Taskmaster creator Alex Horne on filming the socially distanced 11th series of the Channel 4 hit.
The Irish News, 15th March 2021More Taskmaster for New Zealand
Alex Horne's BAFTA winning format Taskmaster has been picked up for a second original series in New Zealand for TVNZ following ratings success.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th March 202120 names we'd like to see on Taskmaster
Which comics would you like to see on the show? Here are some name we think would make excellent competitors.
Chortle, 3rd March 2021Comedies nominated in Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Friday Night Dinner, Inside No. 9, Staged, This Country and The Trip are up for Best Comedy in the 2021 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.
British Comedy Guide, 18th February 2021The 100 best Taskmaster tasks ranked
Over 400 tasks are whittled down, in our ranking of the best challenges set by Alex Horne and Greg Davies.
Jack Bernhardt, The Guardian, 10th February 2021