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.
- Due to return for Series 19
Streaming rank this week: 140
Press clippings Page 23
America 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 2020Taskmaster gets more Nordic exposure
A second series has been announced in Norway for the Discovery channel, a fifth series has been ordered in Sweden for SVT, a fourth in Denmark for TV2, and a second series in Finland for MTV3. And the Norwegian version, Kongen Befaler, was recently named best entertainment show at the country's Golden Screen Awards.
Chortle, 23rd 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 2020BAFTA TV Awards 2020 nominations
Catastrophe, Derry Girls, Fleabag and Stath Lets Flats are amongst the nominees in the BAFTA TV Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 4th June 2020Greg Davies: C4 Taskmaster will be very much same show
"It'll be very much the same show is our plan with Taskmaster, because people seem to like the show and we like doing it the way it is," insisted Davies, who hosts alongside show creator Alex Horne. "So I think you'll barely notice a difference, other than I will be just that little bit older and fatter... and angrier!"
Morgan Jeffery, Radio Times, 15th February 2020