The Taskmaster, Greg Davies, returns to our screens with his little assistant Alex Horne trundling along behind him like a bearded golden retriever in the highly anticipated brand-new season of the BAFTA and Rose D’Or winning show. Taskmaster is set to return at 9pm on Thursday, September 3rd on Channel 4 in the UK and 10pm BST / 5pm EST / 2pm PST on the Taskmaster YouTube Channel across the rest of the world.
Five esteemed comics will attempt to conquer a variety of puzzling, creative and often pointless tasks in the hopes of impressing Greg, each believing they can be the one who will triumph and hold aloft the glorious Taskmaster trophy: a golden head that looks nothing like Greg hammered onto a mid-range plinth. This season’s Herculean hopefuls are: critically-acclaimed comedian and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Chloe Petts (Have I Got News For You, BBC One); award-winning comedian, writer, songwriter and actor Isy Suttie (Peep Show, C4); BAFTA winning actor, author, comedian, presenter, Matt Lucas (Gladiator II); actor, comedian, and ventriloquist Nina Conti (director of comedy feature Sunlight); and multi-award-winning comedian, actor, writer and director Richard Ayoade (Photographer at wedding in The Life & Death of Peter Sellers). These five phenoms have all – remarkably – agreed to be graded and ranked by the formidable Taskmaster. As they crawl through secret tunnels, look for faces on toast, go on holiday with shoes and make interesting use of their armpits, they do so in the knowledge that everything they do is for him.
The Taskmaster YouTube channel has seen huge success internationally, particularly in North America, reaching over 15.5 billion impressions since it first launched in October 2019, with just over 1.7 billion views and over 2.3 million subscribers. The show has grown significantly in popularity with American audiences throughout 2025. There has been an 85% increase in North American viewership year on year, with over 95 million views from North America so far this year, while there were 270k new subscribers from North America in 2025 alone, which is three times more than it received for its previous series, while series 21 of the hit show saw an increase in viewership internationally, with 7 million hours watched so far on the official YouTube channel, contributing to the 323 million hours viewed and 2.3 million subscribers and counting on the channel. The channel to date has passed 1.7 billion views.
