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 20
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British Comedy Guide, 30th October 2020Review: Taskmaster
Taskmaster dumps Dave for C4.... and - hooray - is as silly as ever!
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 16th October 2020Taskmaster, Channel 4 review
The comedy show makes a seamless transfer.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 16th October 2020Taskmaster wins 1.7million viewers for Channel 4
That figure is roughly in line with what the show scored on Dave when catch-up viewing was also counted - which means the show is sure to grow its audience with the change in broadcaster, once on-demand requests are also counted. Channel 4 has also hailed the fact that the show won its 9pm slot among the key 16-34 year-old demographic.
Chortle, 16th October 2020TV review: Taskmaster, C4
First episode, as thoroughly entertaining as ever.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th October 2020Taskmaster series 10 review
Channel 4's task in poaching Dave's best programme was simple: don't screw it up. And by barely changing a single thing for Taskmaster's tenth series, they passed with flying colours.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 15th October 2020Taskmaster review - a delightfully daft diversion
Sure, test and trace might be more medically useful, but would it be as much fun? Take your pleasures where you can.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 15th October 2020Taskmaster, series 10, review
So much fun, you could almost forget the pandemic.
Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 15th October 2020Taskmaster podcast reaches No. 2 in charts
Ahead of the BAFTA winning tv show making it's Channel 4 debut on Thursday 15th October at 9pm, it was announced today that the brand-new official Taskmaster Podcast has reached number two in the iTunes charts only two days following the trailer release and before any episodes have aired.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th October 2020Horne teases "nod" to a past episode in the new series
"The very first task in series one was 'eat the most watermelon', and there's a task which is inspired by that in this series."
Dan Seddon and Laura Jane Turner, Digital Spy, 14th October 2020