Taskmaster (Greg Davies sets some comedians daft challenges!)

That was wholly accurate!

Having two Oscar nominees is mad. Both of them are brilliant and bring a unique humour. Joanna Page always comes across as lovely so she should be great. Joel Dommet I can take or leave but he has that personality that should work with Taskmaster. Amy Gledhill is also very funny. All in all, should be a good series!

Probably unsurprising news, but Taskmaster has been renewed for another 6 series', including all Champions of Champions and New Years Treats.

So at least three more years of Taskmaster.

I really like the group but those recorded tasks were bad.

The find a worm task was just crap. The 'trick' that patatas had a worm in its bum was weird and the camera constantly zooming in on it didn't make it any more obvious.

Props to the team of three figuring out the feed Greg task but to me it was beyond difficult to work out. Taking 35 minutes to figure it out is not a sign of a strongly thought out task.

The tshirt cannon task was boring. Barely giggled throughout it.

Live task was very good and Iannucci really added to it.

I've high hopes for the series but not the best start.

I thought the recorded tasks were fine. The cast are decent enough that even just them having fun with the t-shirt cannon was enjoyable. The worms task was more just an intro to the different styles of the contestants. And the team task, while it took the team of three most of the time to figure out the system, in fairness they were hitting it pretty lucky that they were getting maybe three correct each time before being told No, so that made it longer for them to realise there had to be a different system in place.

They seem like a strong cast though. Could be fun to watch.

I fear the bit with Joel and the egg is going to become tiresome pretty quickly though. Same with that "Secret Task" bit from a few series ago where Alex would ask them if they found the Secret Task in each episode and there was pretty much zero payoff to it as they just had to roll it into another task anyway.