Channel 4 has confirmed the premiere date for the upcoming season of Taskmaster — and fans don’t have long to wait.
The show will return in its typical Thursday 9pm time slot on 3 September in the UK and will then drop an hour later on the Taskmaster YouTube channel around the world.
If you didn’t know already, the celebrities trying to impress Greg Davies and Alex Horne this time around are: stand-up comedian Chloe Petts, Peep Show’s Isy Suttie, Doctor Who’s Matt Lucas, ventriloquist comedian Nina Conti and The Bad Guys’ Richard Ayoade.
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The press release teases that the tasks this time around will see the celebs “crawl through secret tunnels, look for faces on toast, go on holiday with shoes and make interesting use of their armpits”.
Taskmaster has been expanding across the globe in recent years, with the YouTube channel almost doubling its views across 2025.
Earlier this year, it was announced that a Polish version is on the way, which is the 14th international version. The upcoming season of Taskmaster UK will be its 22nd.
“I think this has got a bit out of control, to be honest,” Horne joked at the time.
While the celebs may change, the pairing of Greg and Alex and their married couple-esque bickering remains.
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Recently, Greg admitted there are things his co-host does that “always genuinely irritate” him.
Greg told Metro: “I think he deliberately sits down and thinks: ‘I know how to get Greg into character, and it’s to properly wind him up.’ He says things that have no structure, punchline [or] comic premise, and it genuinely annoys me.
“[The scoring] is my revenge. It’s the little things he doesn’t like. When I give two contestants the same score, if you look into his eyes, his little brain is on fire with rage because he wants things put into boxes.”
Taskmaster returns on 3 September.
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