EXCLUSIVE: Taskmaster is going day-and-date in the U.S. for the first time ever.

The twentieth season of the British comedy competition series, which plays on Channel 4 in its native UK, will run on YouTube when it launches on Thursday, September 11.

In the UK, it premieres at 9pm on Channel 4, and then drops an hour later on YouTube, at 10pm BST / 2pm PT / 5pm ET. This is the first time it will play simultaneously in the U.S. and UK.

You can see a first-look image for Season 20 above, featuring hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne and new contestants Maisie Adam, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Phil Ellis, Ania Magliano and Reece Shearsmith.

Taskmaster has built a big online following and we can report today that its YouTube channel has now surpassed 1.2 billion views. The BAFTA- and Rose

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