They're usually pretty good with getting the solo tasks done early on then it is the filming in the studio and group stuff which can take a while. I think they might even have done some filming for Series 11 when lockdown started.
Television Taskmaster | Series 18 starts tonight
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Have done some detective work and predicting
Jimmy Carr
Susie Dent
Rosie Jones
Jason Bryne
Stuart laws
Jimmy Carr
Susie Dent
Rosie Jones
Jason Bryne
Stuart laws
Yeah I'm with you. Watched a few seasons during lockdown and I love the show but it lives and dies on its contestants, and when it works best its because those contestants are funny people. If they mess with that format they will ruin the show.
Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring.
I saw the tweet below first and got my hopes up
They're very close with Katherine Parkinson though... now watch Series 11 have Chris O'Dowd.
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Okay line up, can imagine Johnny Vegas having a break down. I never got all the doom and gloom about possible guests after moving to channel 4. Most of the past contestants are their regulars on their panel shows anyway.
Aside from Johnny Vegas I don’t know anyone on there. Are they any good?
Good point.
I know Katherine Parkinson from The IT Crowd but don't know the others. Not really seen her on panel shows either so don't know what she is like.
Herring has been wanting to go on the show for a while so hope he's good.
You don't know Katherine Parkinson from the IT Crowd?
Richard Herring is pretty good. Haven't heard of the other two.
Nope, couldn’t watch past the first episode when I’ve started it years ago.
Shame on you!
I know three of them. Vegas should be fun, imagine he'll have good banter with Greg and Alex too.
Yep.. No clue who the other 2 are..
Still 4-6 weeks away I guess..
bring it on
Question is... how long until Peter Crouch is on there 
That's extremely underwhelming a you tuber, johnny Vegas who has one gimmick done to death, the last person you think of taking from the IT crowd and feck knows the other two
Still no Rachel Riley so I'm in
Still no Rachel Riley so I'm in
I strongly dislike Johnny Vegas. Just never took to him and his ‘humour’.
Vegas could get overbearing and I really detest any attempt to legitimize a you tuber .
It should be for real comedians or actors whether established or up and coming not some twat making you tube videos
I’m no massive fan of Johnny Vegas but I don’t dislike him either. He’s actually quite intelligent and there is more too him than his “shtick”. Daisy May Cooper is excellent in This Country and she also co-wrote the whole thing. Richard Herring is a pretty safe choice and then the other two I don’t know much about apart from Parkinson’s IT Crowd role.
One of the best parts of this show for me though is seeing the lineup at the start of the season and thinking “who?” and by the end of it really liking that person. So maybe not the best to judge the lineup before you’ve even seen the series.
One of the best parts of this show for me though is seeing the lineup at the start of the season and thinking “who?” and by the end of it really liking that person. So maybe not the best to judge the lineup before you’ve even seen the series.
Oct 15th
What is this show?
Maybe very limited audience
Or perhaps that he was audience for 4 episodes mean they acknowledge it and for some episodes there are and some there isn't
Or it's a virtual audience
Guess we'll find out
I thought I read somewhere that it was filmed with an audience but they were in another room to get a laugh track or something?
One of the greatest panel shows in the world. A bunch of comedians doing daft tasks and Greg Davies gives them points.
I think either virtual audience/audience in another room or none at all. I think the studio filming was after lockdown started and studio audiences were banned.
I really hope it works without an audience. It's always been such an integral part of the show, always felt like they were interacting with them and almost joining in.
Excited for this, been watching the older series over the last few months. The Joe Wilkinson hole in 1 bit has to be my favourite thing to have happened on the show.
Looking forward to this. And yes the Joe Wilkinson potato thing is the best of all time.
Easy the best bit and there's no good YouTube clip of it to share with people to show how good a show it is
Love this programme, been waiting excitedly all week.
My favourite ever task is the one where they are in the train yard hiding for Alex.
My favourite ever task is the one where they are in the train yard hiding for Alex.
The questionable lineups normal work well, which shows how good the show can be.
Really enjoying it so far Daisy is sure to pee herself at some point too
Dunno, the first couple of tasks showed terrible creativity from the contestants. Greg was carrying it hard.
The egg task has definitely picked up though, when the balloon popped in his face
The egg task has definitely picked up though, when the balloon popped in his face
Started very slowly but definitely got going. Daisy looked like she was going to give birth
The egg task was great, thought it was a bit meh apart from that. Can't see it being a classic series though I do like the guy who tried to put helium in the egg, seems a bit more "creative" than the others.
Mawaan? Guy also tried to lift a phone box.
Have to agree with the sentiment about it starting slow, that egg task was very good. Katherine not even being able to find pan.
I thought the vanishing task had decent entries from Mawaan and Katherine and Johnny is still mental.
I thought the vanishing task had decent entries from Mawaan and Katherine and Johnny is still mental.
Mawaan? Guy also tried to lift a phone box.
Yes that kind of got forgotten after helium egg
He had a good start to that task with using the bucket and then it went downhill from there.
No idea how Johnny got so many points on the vanishing task... maybe due to creativity/time spent.
At first I thought the audience was going to be awful with the overdoing it on the laughing in the introduction but after that it calmed down and felt like a usual episode.
Daisy must have peed herself at some point with the amount of laughing she was doing
Probably won't be a classic series but some good moments in that episode during pretty tough tasks.
No idea how Johnny got so many points on the vanishing task... maybe due to creativity/time spent.
At first I thought the audience was going to be awful with the overdoing it on the laughing in the introduction but after that it calmed down and felt like a usual episode.
Daisy must have peed herself at some point with the amount of laughing she was doing
Probably won't be a classic series but some good moments in that episode during pretty tough tasks.