Taskmaster
The transmission date has been confirmed for the seventh series of award-winning show Taskmaster.
The series, once again hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne, will return to Dave on Wednesday, September 5th at 9pm. The second episode will be available online on the UKTV Play website from 10pm on the same night.
The five celebrity contestants taking part will be James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Phil Wang, Kerry Godliman and Rhod Gilbert.
The five celebrity contestants have been announced for the next series of Taskmaster on Dave.
They are James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Phil Wang, Kerry Godliman and Rhod Gilbert.
Alex Horne and Greg Davies will once again be returning to oversee the competition.
In the final episode of series six Liza Tarbuck was crowned Taskmaster Champion.
The launch of the new series of Taskmaster on Dave has eclipsed all previous series with record overnight ratings. The opening episode of series six of the BAFTA-nominated show peaked at 778k, which is the highest overnight rating in the show’s history. Taskmaster was also watched by more 25-34-year-olds than any other channel at 9pm last night, with the show’s 11.9% share of the demographic up from a 2.1% slot average, beating BBC1 and ITV1.
The Taskmaster quest for global domination continues. There's an American version, a book in the pipeline and now the sixth series starts on Dave. And this time it's been pumped up to ten gloriously daft episodes featuring five comedians competing in a series of unlikely games to be crowned champion.
The next series of Taskmaster will return to Dave next month. The first of ten episodes will air on Wednesday 2nd May at 9pm.
The next series of Taskmaster will return to Dave in early May.
Tickets are now available for the studio filming of the next series of Taskmaster.
This is the sixth series and the competitors have just been announced. They are Alice Levine (BBC Radio 1, My Dad Wrote A Porno), Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing), Liza Tarbuck (Upstart Crow) Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour), and Tim Vine (Not Going Out).
Filming will take place at Pinewood Studios between March 22 and March 28.
Fresh off winning Best Entertainment Show at this year’s Broadcast Awards, it has been announced that UKTV has ordered four more series of BAFTA and EMMY-nominated Taskmaster from Avalon for its award-winning comedy and entertainment channel, Dave. Greg Davies will return as the all-powerful Taskmaster alongside his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne for series six, seven, eight and nine, of the UKTV Original series.
Catastrophe has won Best Comedy Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2018.
Dave's acclaimed show Taskmaster won Best Entertainment Programme.
Horrible Histories won Best Children's Programme.
Black Mirror's San Junipero episode won Best Single Drama.
And the Who Do You Think You Are? episode which revealed that Danny Dyer has royal ancestry won Best Popular Factual Programme.
The final episode of the Taskmaster Champion of Champions has been broadcast tonight on Dave.
And the winner is... Josh Widdicombe.
Widdicombe beat the other four winners of previous series of the show overall after various challenges. The quintet of winners were Rob Beckett, Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan, Noel Fielding and the most recent victor, Bob Mortimer who helped to secure his triumph by getting into the boot of his car and cuddling Alex Horne.
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