| Taskmaster New Zealand | |
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| Also known as | Taskmaster Taskmaster NZ |
| Genre | Comedy panel game |
| Created by | Alex Horne |
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| Directed by | Andy Robinson & Tom Furniss |
| Presented by | Jeremy Wells |
| Starring | Paul Williams (assistant) |
| Theme music composer | The Horne Section |
| Country of origin | New Zealand |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 50 |
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| Running time | 44 minutes[1] |
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| Original release | |
| Network | TVNZ 2 |
| Release | 21 October 2020 – present |
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| Taskmaster (British TV series) Taskmaster Australia | |
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Taskmaster New Zealand (also known as Taskmaster or Taskmaster NZ especially prior to season 4) is a New Zealand comedy panel game show, first broadcast in 2020 on TVNZ 2. The format for the show was created by British comedian Alex Horne during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010 and was subsequently developed into a successful UK television show in 2015.
Following the format of the original British version, the show consists of five contestants who compete in a series of strange and unusual tasks to gain points from the Taskmaster, Jeremy Wells, administered by his assistant, comedian Paul Williams.[2][3]
Taskmaster New Zealand is produced for TVNZ with support from NZ On Air. The first series was broadcast in the spring of 2020, while the second series was broadcast in the winter of 2021,[4] the third in winter 2022,[1][5] the fourth in winter 2023,[6] and the fifth in winter 2024.[7] Funding for a sixth season was announced in November 2024.[8]
- ^ a b "April 2022 Funding Decisions". NZ On Air. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ "Taskmaster NZ". TVNZ.co.nz. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Craig, Michael (27 September 2020). "Taskmaster NZ: Team revealed as shows release date nears". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Dessau, Bruce (9 March 2021). "News: More Taskmaster For New Zealand". Beyond the Joke. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
- ^ "Taskmaster NZ Season 3 starts July 6th". Reddit. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ "Clean sweep for comedy in NZ On Air's latest Scripted funding round". NZOnAir. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "A scripted comedy and dark drama join slate of popular returning series funded by NZ On Air". NZ On Air. 24 November 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ "Firm audience favourites lead NZ On Air Non-Fiction funding". www.nzonair.govt.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2024.