Taskmaster season 10: Daisy May Cooper joins Greg Davies game show on new Channel 4 home

Comedy competition series is moving to Channel 4 after nine seasons on Dave

This Country’s Daisy May Cooper and Johnny Vegas have joined the cast of Taskmaster season 10.

Cooper and Vegas will be competing alongside The IT Crowd's Katherine Parkinson and comedians Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring on the surreal comedy challenge series, which has gained a cult following since it first aired in 2015.

This will be the first season of Taskmaster, which is expected to go out in September, to air on Channel 4 rather than UKTV channel Dave.

Hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne, the Bafta-nominated competition series sees a group of five comedians take part in a collection of bizarre challenges over each series, all in the hope of winning a statue of Davies’s head.

Taskmaster ran for nine seasons on Dave, but in November signed a six-series deal to move to Channel 4. Previous winners have included Katherine Ryan, Noel Fielding and Bob Mortimer.

Musical comedian Horne, who is the show’s creator, said of the move: “We’ve had an amazing nine series on Dave and I’d like to thank UKTV for letting us do such ridiculous things for so long.

“It seems like the right time to move to a channel with a broader audience and I can reassure people who like the show that it won’t be changing one bit and I’ll still be forced to do things no one should ever have to do.”

 

 

 

 

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TASKMASTER COMING SOON TO CHANNEL 4 Thankyou so much @crazy_costume_queen for my fabulous outfit

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International versions of the show have been made in European countries including Belgium and Denmark, while a US version starring Reggie Watts ran for one season.

A New Zealand version has also this week been announced.