Channel 4 has confirmed the start date for Taskmaster's new series. The hit show, now on season 22, is fronted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne and features a host of TV favourites.
Among the cast are Peep Show's Isy Suttie, Doctor Who's Matt Lucas, ventriloquist comedian Nina Conti, stand-up comedian Chloe Petts and The Bad Guys' Richard Ayoade.
Return date and time slot
The show will return to the UK on Thursday, September 3 at 9pm — its usual time slot — and will then drop an hour later on the Taskmaster YouTube channel around the world.
The tasks this time around will see the celebrities "crawl through secret tunnels, look for faces on toast, go on holiday with shoes and make interesting use of their armpits", reports Digital Spy.
Greg Davies on co-host Alex Horne
Recently, Greg admitted there are things his co-host does that "always genuinely irritate" him. He 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."
Global expansion and spin-off
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.
Meanwhile, Channel 4 has also given the green light to a pilot for a brand new Taskmaster spin-off. Currently titled Your Time Starts Now, the programme, hosted by Taskmaster's Alex Horne, will see British households go head-to-head in a series of challenges without ever stepping outside their front doors.
It is a similar concept to Alex's previous BBC programme The Button, while also drawing on the hugely popular HomeTasking series that unfolded online throughout the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Taskmaster returns to Channel 4 on September 3.
