Junior Taskmaster’s Contestants Will Likely Be More Competent Than The Grown-Ups

The Junior Taskmaster news does come with a series of questions to answer: will the series be filmed at the Taskmaster’s Chesham house? For whose golden head will the kids be competing? Will they have to source the prize tasks out of their own pocket money, or will there be some kind of expense-reclamation system in place?

The tasks too, will have to be adapted for the junior intake (it wouldn’t be appropriate for kids to be asked to make a Swedish man blush), though the established record of School Taskmaster and Taskmaster Education, not to mention the successful lockdown online version for families, means there’s plenty of family-aimed material to go on there.

Head of Events for Channel 4 said, “Junior Taskmaster is set to be hugely entertaining family-friendly treat with as much madcap nonsense as the main series and, who knows, it might unearth the comedy stars of tomorrow”. Good point. Why wait for the Edinburgh Fringe when you can get an early start on the next Joe Lycett or Fern Brady?

All that, plus three more years of Taskmaster confirmed, continuing at a rate of two series a year (presumably plus New Year specials), and the brand new Series 15 on its way shortly. That will be welcoming Frankie Boyle, Jenny Eclair, Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats’ Kiell Smith-Bynoe, plus Feel Good’s Mae Martin and stand-up Ivo Graham. Our Taskmaster cup runneth over.

Taskmaster Series 1-14 are available to stream on All4. Series 15 is due to arrive on Channel 4 this spring.