Comedians Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak to host new Junior Taskmaster
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omedians Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak will host a brand new youngsters’s model of the favored sport present Taskmaster, it has been introduced.
Kiwi stand-up and actor Matafeo will tackle Greg Davies’s function of Taskmaster whereas Man Down actor Wozniak can be her assistant, the place stuffed by Alex Horne on the unique present.
Each episode of Channel 4’s new Junior Taskmaster will see 5 younger individuals aged 9 to 11 tackle a sequence of weird challenges designed to “encourage and inspire wile, wit, creativity and athleticism”.
Matafeo will rating their efforts and assign factors to the contestants as Wozniak takes notes, information statistics and administers the duties.
She stated: “To be appointed as Junior Taskmaster is one of the greatest honours of my already wildly successful career.
“I am greatly looking forward to the power going to my head.”
Wozniak added: “All I ever wanted to be when I grew up was a Little Alex Horne (or a regional manager for a major provider of motorway service stations) so this is literally a dream come true.
“I hereby vow to do my utmost to hold the office of Junior Taskmaster’s Assistant in the spirit of the original Little Alex Horne, with his courage, his grit and his dignity.”
The unique model was created by comic and musician Horne as a dwell present for the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
It was later tailored for tv, premiering on TV channel Dave in 2015 and taking part in for 9 sequence earlier than being acquired by Channel 4.
It has picked up a sequence of awards together with a Bafta for greatest comedy leisure programme.
The junior version was commissioned after the continued success of Taskmaster, notably with youthful audiences.
A censored family-friendly model titled Taskmaster Bleeped can be out there on the broadcaster’s streaming service.
Junior Taskmaster can be produced by Avalon, with Horne performing as an government producer alongside Richard Allen-Turner, Rob Aslett, Andy Cartwright, Andy Devonshire, James Taylor and Jon Thoday.