Channel 4 Nabs Entertainment Format ‘Taskmaster’ From UKTV With Six Season Deal

moved from the BBC to C4.

The network has handed the Avalon Television-produced series a six season deal across three years and will launch episodes in 2020.star Greg Davies, has run on UKTV’s Dave since 2015 with its ninth season launching in September.producer Avalon Television with Horne, Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, James Taylor, Jon Thoday and Andy Devonshire exec producing with Andy Cartwright as series producer.The show will air on Channel 4 with repeats on youth-skewing network E4.

Creator Alex Horne said, “We’ve had an amazing nine series on Dave and I’d like to thank UKTV for letting us do such ridiculous things for so long. Greg and I are looking forward to getting started on a new series for Channel 4 from next year. It seems like the right time to move to a channel with a broader audience and I can reassure people who like the show that it won’t be changing one bit and I’ll still be forced to do things no one should ever have to do.

Avalon’s Jon Thoday added, “We are delighted Taskmaster will have a new home at Channel 4. I would like to thank Steve North, Richard Watsham and Hilary Rosen at UKTV as well as all the other people who have helped make the show such a success.”

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