Taskmaster returns to Dave on 8th May

Friday 12 April 2019 The wait is finally over, Taskmaster returns to Dave on Wednesday 8th May with the Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne putting a new set of courageous contestants through their paces. Series 8 challengers include Iain Stirling (Love Island, Host of Dog Ate My Homework), Joe Thomas (Inbetweeners, Fresh Meat), Lou Sanders (8 Out of 10 Cats, Sick of It), Paul Sinha (The Chase, Tonight At The Palladium), and Sian Gibson (Peter Kays Car Share, Murder on the Blackpool Express).

The new series sees some of the best brains of British television go up against each other as they conceal themselves in a phone box, make edible dust, cause a hideous food-based injury and apologise to Alex for the horrible thing theyve done to him. The merciless Taskmaster and his obedient little man servant have devised these seemingly perplexing challenges to test their creativity, speed of thought and ability to not look like idiots. All for a 24-carat gold cast of Gregs head and the worthy title of Taskmaster S8 Champion.

The eighth series of Taskmaster will air on Wednesday 8th May and catch up on series 1-7 on UKTV Play

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WHAT THE PRESS HAS SAID ABOUT TASKMASTER

Taskmaster is one of the most consistently innovative and funny series on telly Joe Clay, The Times, T2

The most reliable source for laughs on television Gabriel Tate, The Times Saturday Review

Funny, revealing, and glorious...Caitlin Moran once wrote that the comedy panel game is one of the glories of British TV. A new one shone bright last night **** Andrew Billen, The Times

The kind of Dave thing that shouldnt quite work but is actually wildly stupid fun. Mainly thanks to Alex Horne, late of so much splendid radio, and Greg Davies...a winner Euan Ferguson, The Observer

Its glorious mayhem and stupidly funny David Butcher, Radio Times

Were up to series 7 and its as winning as ever Sharon Lougher, Metro

Brilliantly madcap comedy game show **** Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

One of the funniest game shows on TV **** Natasha Holt, TV Times Magazine

The keynote themes are ludicrous absurdity and moderately cruel sadism. Somehow, however, it all works brilliantly, with the presence of Horne adding the barest modicum of civility to proceedings...prepare for tears of laughter Mark Wareham, Mail on Sunday, Event Magazine

Taskmaster is an unashamed celebration of the bizarre and the mediocre Sam Wollaston, G2 Guardian

Never before has anything so absurd, so stupid, so utterly pointless, made such good television Sara Wallis, Daily Mirror

Inventive Mike Ward, Saturday Magazine, Daily Express

The funniest show on telly The Sun, TV Magazine

Creative Chaos Emma Messenger, TV Choice

This seems to be a series that really brings families together Bruce Dessau, Beyond the Joke

Splendidly silly Sunday Times, Culture

Clever David Stephenson, Sunday Express, S Magazine

The show routinely delivers the funniest, most unexpected comedy of the TV week...The cleverest spin on the panel show format in years, its must-watch TV Wesley Mead, Den of Geek

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