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Telly is a brutal business.
A show that slips in the ratings can be cancelled on the spot — but a hit series doesn’t mean an end to all the insecurities.
For channel chiefs, it just brings sleepless nights for different reasons. What if your fan-favourite elopes to a rival broadcaster?
Every comedian launching a show on the low-budget Dave channel in recent years has had one aim — to be as big as Taskmaster.
The slapstick panel format, invented by Alex Horne, sees five comics performing silly, often very clever, challenges to earn points from scathing adjudicator Greg Davies.
Taskmaster host Greg Davies (left) and creator Alex Horne (right)
After nine increasingly successful series, it was the jewel in Dave’s plastic crown. It gave us Richard Osman throwing a shopping trolley in a stream, Noel Fielding disguising himself as a banana and Sally Phillips playing basketball with Wellies on her hands.
And then Dave’s flagship sailed away.
Dave got dumped. Taskmaster (C4) has gone mainstream.
Playing the imperious titular ‘taskmaster’ and his fawning courtier, Greg and Alex make a strong double act. Though apparently they have little time for each other in real life, on screen they have a natural rhythm.
‘Little Alex Horne’ (who is actually 6ft 2in) makes an ingratiating remark.
‘Lord Greg Davies’ (an enormous 6ft 8in) pauses just long enough to convey his contempt, and carries on. It’s a one-note joke, but it’s unfailingly funny.
As contestant Richard Herring pointed out, the core of the format is not how well the players perform the tasks, 메리트카지노 nor whether they make complete fools of themselves.
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Herring botched a game that involved guiding eggs, without throwing them, into a frying pan 30ft away. Even when his eggs were splattered over the floor, he kept scraping them up.
‘You looked 12 years old, 메리트카지노 a determined little boy trying to prove himself to daddy,’ mocked Davies.
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