Talk about sweating the assets. This is the second 10-week run of Taskmaster in 2025, the previous series only having ended in July. Channel 4’s biannual broadcast of their hit comedy panel game show means that it dominates their Thursday evenings for nearly half the year – a tribute to both the programme’s popularity and the acumen of whoever was responsible for poaching Taskmaster off Dave in the first place. That was certainly the broadcaster’s best bit of business since swiping The Great British Bake Off from the Beeb.

Anyway, it’s back with utter – but not yet deadening – familiarity, from Greg Davies ’s ritualised introductory humiliation of “Little” Alex Horne (the real boss of the show, of course, so he can soak it up) to the mix of aspiring and established comedian

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