Taskmaster (TV series)
| Taskmaster | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Genre | Comedy Panel game |
| Created by | Alex Horne |
| Directed by | Andy Devonshire Peter Orton |
| Presented by | Greg Davies |
| Starring | Alex Horne (umpire) |
| Theme music composer | The Horne Section |
| Composer(s) | Dru Masters |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Richard Allen-Turner James Taylor Jon Thoday Hilary Rosen Rob Aslett Richard Watsham Andy Devonshire Alex Horne |
| Producer(s) | Andy Cartwright Alex Horne |
| Editor(s) | Thomas Perrett Mark Sangster |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Avalon Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Dave |
| Picture format | 16:9 (1080i HDTV) |
| Original release | 28 July 2015 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Taskmaster (US TV series) |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Taskmaster is a British comedy panel game show originally created by British comedian Alex Horne during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010, and transferred to television on Dave in 2015. The TV series stars comedian and actor Greg Davies now in the titular role of the Taskmaster, issuing simple comedic and bizarre tasks to five regular contestants – usually comedians – with Horne acting as Davies' assistant and umpire during the challenges. The show's theme music was written and performed by The Horne Section, a jazz band and another project of Horne's.
On 24 September 2015, it was announced that the show had been recommissioned for a second and third series, and on 3 October 2016, for a fourth and fifth series. The fourth series will debut on Tuesday 25th April 2017, with the first episode being released early on demand on Wednesday 19 April. The show is also broadcast in Belgium, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Australia and New Zealand. International versions of the programme have been made in Belgium and Sweden, and there is a forthcoming version to be made in the United States with Reggie Watts as the Taskmaster, with Horne returning as the assistant.
Each series of Taskmaster features a different set of contestants, who appear in every episode of the series they appear in. The names highlighted in bold are the winners of that particular series.
The game consists of simple and bizarre challenges set by Davies as the Taskmaster, with assistance provided by Horne. These challenges are usually done individually and in isolation, and pre-filmed either in the Taskmaster cottage or on location. The players are encouraged to think laterally and creatively to complete the task.
In the occasional team tasks, the players are split into two teams. In the first series, these teams were grouped by age; with Key and Skinner making up the 'elder' team, and Conaty, Ranganathan and Widdicombe making up the 'younger' team. In the second series, they were split into Richardson and Osman (as Davies referred to them as 'Father and Son') and Ryan, Brown and Wilkinson. In the third series, they were split into 'The Beards' - Gorman, Chowdhry and Murray, and 'The Aryan Twins' - Pascoe and Beckett.
...
Wikipedia