Taskmaster move to Channel 4 confirmed

Just hope Channel 4 don't mess about with it and add someone like Scarlet Moffat or someone from Made in Chelsea or TOWIE into it. If it stays the same show on Dave but on Channel 4 I will look forward to watching it just like I enjoy watching the Bake Off on 4 as it is more or less the same show bar the presenter change.

Yes, absolutely - I think that a move from multichannel to 'big 4 terrestrial', if I may call it that, is entirely justified following success for a show such as Taskmaster. This isn't a Bake Off style case of a massive show moving away from BBC One for money - it is a 'promotion' onto a more major channel.

Interesting and a relief that the likes of Netflix were never amongst the rumoured locations for the show - this is the sort of show best served up weekly.

Netflix already have several shows with new episodes released weekly, like Patriot Act. I don’t think it would have been too much of a stretch for them to do the same with Taskmaster.

Aren't a lot of the Netflix shows that are released weekly co-pros with broadcasters? ISTR that contractually many broadcasters who are co-producing ensure that Netflix can't drop these shows in a lump to avoid people box-set binging before the episodes have been broadcast?

(Interesting case in Norway - Netflix co-produced Lillehammer with NRK and NRK had a clause that meant Netflix had to release on a linear schedule to match NRK's broadcast schedule. AIUI NRK then released the entire series in one lump on their catch up platform - which didn't change Netflix's contractual requirements to release weekly. Netflix were NOT happy, and didn't commission any further series)