TASKMASTER
NEW THURSDAY / C4 / 9PM / EP 1 of 10 / COMEDY
As reluctant detective Jonathan Creek, Alan Davies often found himself trying to make sense of seemingly impossible scenarios. Now, the popular actor and comedian is hoping to draw on his alter ego’s knack for logical analysis and flashes of genius as a contestant on the latest series of C4’s hit comedy game show Taskmaster.
Alongside fellow competitors Victoria Coren Mitchell, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, and Morgana Robinson, Alan is at the mercy of Taskmaster Greg Davies and his assistant Alex Horne, who have set an array of strange, surreal, and often bamboozling tasks for the quintet to carry out in order to earn points when Greg reviews their efforts in the studio.
TV Times called Alan, 55, to find out how he got on…
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