Taskmaster Australia

killy06 · July 25, 2024, 11:20am

To be fair, Dessert Masters was announced as airing during the Olympics at upfronts last year and obviously things changed since then - I doubt many would have known or remembered that.

I don’t think it’s a bad move at all to hold it over, they need content in Q4 and it did well there last year. It would have been foolish to run it directly after MC.

The back-to-back reference for Taskmaster was clearly taken too literally, and was pretty clear I thought weeks back that their intention wasn’t to play season 3 straight afterwards - would’ve been too much.

They’ve got a good buffer with Gogglebox between seasons which gives it some breathing space for the appetite to be there for another season to air this year.

David · July 25, 2024, 11:27am

I get you but how else can you interpret “back to back”? I don’t think it was wrong for people to assume both seasons would literally air back to back.

killy06 · July 25, 2024, 11:29am

Actually, now that I think of it where did the back to back reference come from?

I think that all started when Tom Cashman posted that … “there’s another season airing straight after this one” and people interpreted it some kind of way.

David · July 25, 2024, 11:30am

Again, “straight after”. There’s no other way to interpret it. lol.

Apple75 · July 25, 2024, 11:31am

He mentioned it many times in the last 2 episodes about how the season 2 finale was approaching

killy06 · July 25, 2024, 11:33am

That could still be interpreted differently, and as I said it was clear weeks back that they weren’t literally running concurrently.

Not sure we can get up in arms on this occasion when it wasn’t confirmed as such and one of the co-hosts probably went a bit off script at the time by announcing another season would air this year when it hadn’t even been confirmed by the network at that time.

JohnsonTV · July 25, 2024, 11:35am

An October 24 premiere for season 3 of Taskmaster will mean the grand final will air on Boxing Day night.

killy06 · July 25, 2024, 11:43am

In that case, they might go earlier in October and bump Gogglebox back to a 8:30pm start for the final weeks.

JBar · July 25, 2024, 12:03pm

This is not new. We knew it back in May.

David · July 25, 2024, 12:04pm

I didn’t say it was new. I was just using it as an example of 10 and their lack of forward planning.

JohnsonTV · July 25, 2024, 1:08pm

At the start of tonight’s finale, Anne and Lloyd were in the top two with Anne leading the rest by two points. After the live task was completed, Anne and Lloyd finished equal first at 161 points, so a tiebreaker was needed (guess the weight of the trophy which is a bronze model of Tom Gleeson’s head). Lloyd’s answer was closest to the actual weight (1.6 kg) so he was declared the season two winner.

How many times was tiebreaker used in the UK and NZ versions of Taskmaster?

dominator · July 25, 2024, 1:48pm

I saw on the Taskmaster Subreddit that this is the first time a tiebreaker was used to determine the season winner.

But tie-breakers for the episode winner are reasonably common (maybe once a season).

JohnsonTV · July 25, 2024, 2:14pm

Someone just wrote on the same Taskmaster Subreddit on what they actually saw at the filming of the season finale. Fairly long article too. There were so many bits that didn’t make the TV broadcast. Interesting that Tom Gleeson held a Q&A after the live task was completed.

The writer called it “the best finale episode of any English speaking Taskmaster”.

JohnsonTV · August 27, 2024, 9:39pm

Apply for tickets at the That’s the Ticket website

JohnsonTV · September 9, 2024, 9:54am

The next season starts on Tuesday, September 24, according to a new promo shown tonight during the premiere of The Amazing Race Australia.

It will be the first time the show airs on Tuesdays.

TV.Cynic · September 9, 2024, 10:08am

JohnsonTV · September 9, 2024, 12:53pm

Assuming the next season will again have 10 episodes, it will finish on the final week of November which is also the final week of official ratings survey period for 2024.

TV.Cynic · September 10, 2024, 12:38am

Step Into Tom Gleeson’s House Of Fun. Taskmaster Australia Season Three Premieres Tuesday, 24 September.

Starring Aaron Chen, Concetta Caristo, Mel Buttle, Pete Helliar And Rhys Nicholson.

Tuesday night laughs are about to get even wittier as we welcome a new season of Taskmaster Australia to your Tuesday night comedy line-up.

You heard right, we are treating you to double the laughs as comedy powerhouse Taskmaster Australia returns for season three on Tuesday, 24 September at 7.30pm on 10 and 10 Play, joining Tuesday’s riotous roster alongside The Cheap Seats.

Tough-love Taskmaster Tom Gleeson is back, along with his loyal sidekick Tom Cashman, both ready to put our newest batch of comedians through their comedic paces.

Competing for Tom Gleeson’s cranium in gold trophy form and stepping into his “house of fun”, is none other than Aaron Chen, Concetta Caristo, Mel Buttle, Pete Helliar and Rhys Nicholson. But in Tom’s house, it’s Tom’s rules… which means anything can happen. Will our new comedy legends play by the rules and be up to the task?

From epic winks, flying discs and puzzles with cumbersome costumes, our unforgiving Taskmaster has a whole new bag of random, ridiculous and rambunctious tricks up his sleeve to test the wits of our season three line-up.

Who will have what it takes to become our next Taskmaster Australia champion?

Adapted from the BAFTA-winning, hit UK format of the same name, Taskmaster Australia rewards innovation, berates stupidity and promises an abundance of laughs. Go on, see for yourself……

And the laughs continue right after, with your weekly hit of The Cheap Seats. What a hoot Tuesdays will be!

Taskmaster Australia is produced for Network 10 by Avalon / Kevin & Co.

Taskmaster Australia. Premieres Tuesday, 24 September At 7.30pm On 10 And 10 Play.

JohnsonTV · September 16, 2024, 2:44am

10 upfronts 2025

Tom Gleeson and his trusty sidekick Tom Cashman will be back in the new year to put another bunch of celebs through their paces. The Taskmaster Australia Season 4 line up will see Tommy Little, Emma Holland, Lisa McCune, Takashi Wakasugi and Dave Hughes forced to think laterally and maybe fail literally.

JohnsonTV · September 16, 2024, 2:47am

Interesting choice of Lisa McCune, perhaps due to her previous lead role in How to Stay Married.

Here is a brief profile of Takashi Wakasugi.

https://www.sydneycomedyfest.com.au/event/takashi-wakasugi-japanese-aussie/