Channel 4 To Be The New Home Of Taskmaster

Channel 4 is to be the new home of BAFTA and Emmy Award nominated Taskmaster, with a six series deal across three years agreed with Avalon.

New episodes will arrive on Channel 4 from late 2020.

The show hosted by Greg Davies as the all-powerful 'Taskmaster', alongside Alex Horne as his loyal assistant, sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper competitive comedians through a series of strange and surreal challenges. It started as a live show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before being developed for television, initially with Channel 4. It was later commissioned by UKTV for Dave where it has aired for nine very successful series.

Alex Horne, the show’s creator, said: "We’ve had an amazing nine series on Dave and I'd like to thank UKTV for letting us do such ridiculous things for so long. Greg and I are looking forward to getting started on a new series for Channel 4 from next year. It seems like the right time to move to a channel with a broader audience and I can reassure people who like the show that it won’t be changing one bit and I’ll still be forced to do things no one should ever have to do."