Yeah, absolutely ludicrous. Brings back memories of trying to watch Seinfeld on BBC2 back in the mid to late 90s. Bumped every other week for some bullshit like snooker or fecking darts coverage.
Television Taskmaster | Season 17 now airing
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Even allowing for the tedious premise and shit cast, what the feck are they doing putting a blind guy in a light deprivation psychological challenge?
He's good on panel shows, but come on.
Saw that advertised, have no idea why you'd even make that a show
Really enjoyed the potato and caravan tasks. The live task was a bit crap.
and yeah pushing it back to 10.30 for that shite is ridiculous.
and yeah pushing it back to 10.30 for that shite is ridiculous.
I think it will be on All4 from 9. I really hate Danny Dyer have no idea how he gets shows.
Will take over celebrity hunted too which I'm watching if only for James Acastor and Ed Gamble
If it's being pushed back to 10:30, does that mean we'll get a few more Frankie jokes making the cut?
I find Kiell hilarious
It was never going to match up last year but it's warning up ok I think. They are all likeable Was worried Mae would run away with it but perhaps not.
Frankie's face when he saw he was being teamed up with Ivo was priceless and made the season worthwhile already
Frankie's face when he saw he was being teamed up with Ivo was priceless and made the season worthwhile already
I actually thought the first season in Australia was really good. I generally don't care much for the taskmasters anyway, so whether it's Greg or Tom I don't really care.
The episode where they had to become twins/triplets had me laughing my head off. Completely unhinged.
I do think that if you want your contestants to be competent, the Australian one is not for you.
Oh, I'm not bothered about them being competent at the tasks or not. There's entertainment / humour either way, and often them being useless at the tasks can be the funniest. I said I didn't find any of the five contestants particularly funny in the first Australian series. Which is a drawback.
One of the most boring contestants in the UK version was, ironically enough, the Australian Sarah Kendall. She was very competent at the tasks and won her series (11), but was pretty dull and humour-free in doing so.
I enjoyed the first Australian series and found it a grower. Like with the English and NZ versions, just the tasks themselves make every season well worth watching. But the quality of the contestants tips the balance between the series being quite good-to-brilliant. And I only thought this series was quite good because the contestants weren't all that funny. With a funnier group, I'm hoping series 2 will be closer to the brilliant side of the scale.
Thought the latest episode was incredibly weak. Not helped by the tasks.
Yeah, me too.
I didn't like to post more negatives after already saying I didn't rate the dancing and music tasks from episodes 1 and 2. But, truthfully, I didn't really like the potato task or the fight scenes in slow motions this week either.
They're only a decent group - far from the best, but reasonably OK - but I don't think they've been helped by the tasks so far either. Some have been the usual standard, but I think they've been much more hit and miss than usual so far.
The episodes are always still enjoyable, but the beginnings of this series hasn't reached the heights of many of it's predecessors.
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One thing you notice with the series now compared to older seasons, they just dont do properly physical tasks any more.
Too many tasks now just revolving around mime. Already we've had wedding dance, musical instrument and fake fights... just boring.
Too many tasks now just revolving around mime. Already we've had wedding dance, musical instrument and fake fights... just boring.
Agreed. The best tasks have always been the 'thinking outside the box' kind of tasks or physical ones like you say.
Yeah there's been too many 'everyone do the same thing and we judge the best one' tasks and not enough ones that give room for interpretation and different approaches.
I don't get this show at all. Don't find it remotely funny or entertaining personally and I normally really like Greg Davies.
Yeh and the physical tasks were most often the ones where someone would come up with a clever workaround.
When the tasks are all "creative" but at the same time super prescriptive, it turns the whole show into a 'who does Greg want to win' contest.
Great points.
The tasks have been pretty stale in general for a while now. Suppose its inevitable after 15 seasons. They could do with freshening it up somehow. Maybe they should use a new location for the taskmaster house or something. Or just do more off site tasks.
Ok enjoy the other show
The NZ Taskmaster house was a lot bigger. It does have similar rooms but a lot more outdoor space.
I had that in mind tbf. They have the taskmaster ranch! Two story house, loads of land and a lake. It opens up opportunities to be more creative with the tasks.
Thanks to all those in here that recommended the NZ series by the way. Only watched season 2 but really enjoyed it. The studio sections aren't as good (no Greg) but the tasks are great!
Never heard of any of the contestants either but thought they were a great cast.
Never heard of any of the contestants either but thought they were a great cast.
Yeah, that really helps the NZ version.
The Australian version also used the same place for its recent first series, so also had plenty of outdoor / water tasks. This is a good example...
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Mae has been so disappointing. They must know the aim is too be entertaining and not just endlessly looking for loopholes in every task
Worst tasks and worst cast in a long time, maybe ever.
Cant believe how boring that 9 task game of bingo was.
Cant believe how boring that 9 task game of bingo was.
I think Ivo alone is worth tuning in for.
I actually think the cast could be decent (Mae being an easy person to root against), but the tasks have been boring as shit.
Did you start from the beginning or latest season? I mean, it's still the same show, but the first few seasons were the best.
Ive watched a few of them over the years and never once thought it was entertaining or funny.
That's fair enough!
I still think season 1 was my favourite. The one with Frank Skinner. If someone can't get into that season then, yeah, there's probably no hope for the rest of the show.
Yeah, Ivo's not disappointed for me. Though his dry, self-effacing humour isn't enough to carry a weak series on its own. But he's certainly doing his part to add some understated humour. And his and Frankie's one liners, and Kiell's complaining about the scores, are making the banter in the studio scenes quite good.
It's definitely the poor quality of the tasks that's the main problem. And Mae Martin taking it too serious in a pretty much humour-free way a la Sarah Kendall in series 11. There's nothing wrong with contestants wanting to win of course, and that can be fun to watch if the contestant also remember to try to be entertaining. But Sarah and Mae were / are both pretty boring and almost robotic like during tasks.
Yeah, if someone 'never once' finds any of the first 7 series of the show entertainment or funny then it's probably never going to be a show for them. As that was the peak.
But it's each to their own, and there's plenty of popular shows that I don't really 'get' either. But I really love Taskmaster.
Brilliant concept! A portuguese contester sent his socks to Jeffery Horne by DHL on the "send one clothing object as far as possible" and Horne actualy filmed himself opening the package and dressing his socks
Did you mean Alex Horne?Brilliant concept! A portuguese contester sent his socks to Jeffery Horne by DHL on the "send one clothing object as far as possible" and Horne actualy filmed himself opening the package and dressing his socks
I don't really see the comparison with Mae and Sarah Kendall. I think Mae has been considerably more entertaining. I still think Wozniak was robbed in that series, and we're all poorer for not seeing him in Champion of Champions.
Mike Wozniak getting beaten by Sarah Kendall genuinely had me in tears. Wife got a beating that night.
She's been more entertaining than Sarah, yeah, but that's a really low bar and she's definitely been the most Kendall-like contestant that I've seen on the show.
And completely agree about Mike Wozniak being robbed. He was the perfect contestant - did well enough to win it but never at the cost of humour or entertainment. It's frustrating when people like that don't win it and so don't return for a Champion of Champions special as they're such great value.