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Lucas rose to fame working with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer on Shooting Stars, before going on to create Little Britain with comedy partner David Walliams, hosting The Great British Bake Off and starring as Nardole in Peter Capaldi’s era of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n Conti is a comedian who is most famous for her ventriloquism stand-up with her monkey puppet Monkey and audience masks, while she also fronted the documentary Her Master’s Voice and wrote and directed 2025 road-trip romcom Sunlight.<\/p>\n Ayoade’s TV credits include Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, The IT Crowd and Last One Laughing UK, while he has hosted Gadget Man, Travel Man, The Crystal Maze and the BAFTA TV Awards, and is a regular on panel shows like Have I Got News for You, Big Fat Quiz and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.<\/p>\n Taskmaster season 22 cast.\u00a0Channel 4<\/p>\n Like so many before them, they all believe they can impress the Taskmaster, but only one can take home Davies’s majestic golden head.<\/p>\n No release date has been announced for Taskmaster season 22 yet, but it is expected to air later this year on Channel 4 on on YouTube internationally.<\/p>\n As for the future of Taskmaster, Horne recently told Radio Times<\/a> that the show has cast its first Oscar winner<\/a> for a future season, while he’s also teased a format shake-up<\/a> further down the line.<\/p>\n “\u200aPeople ask us about adding a Champion of Champion of Champions,” he told us earlier this year.<\/p>\n “I think, instead of that, we have got something up our sleeves in the near-ish future, of doing a slightly interesting series. It’s just some tweaks, but I can’t say any more than that. So [we have got] something. We’ve got something up our sleeve.”<\/p>\n Add Radio Times as a Preferred Source on Google<\/a> Read more:<\/p>\n Taskmaster is available to watch on catch-up on Channel 4 and YouTube outside the UK.<\/p>\n Add Taskmaster to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app<\/a> \u2013 download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Entertainment<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s a new Taskmaster cast in town! As another run of the hilarious game show came to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-472786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Chloe](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/taskmaster-7-47b0ca6.jpg\" "\\"Taskmaster")
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