Overview
- Channel 4 named Chloe Petts, Isy Suttie, Matt Lucas, Nina Conti and Richard Ayoade as the five contestants for series 22.
- Greg Davies will return as the Taskmaster and Alex Horne will continue as his assistant under the new agreement.
- The cast announcement followed the conclusion of series 21 and was published immediately after the finale on June 11, 2026.
- Channel 4 has signed a multi-series broadcast deal that keeps the programme on the network for multiple future runs, though no firm air date for series 22 has been given.
- Taskmaster began as an Alex Horne stage show and grew into a TV format that awards a large gold trophy modelled on Greg Davies’s head and is distributed internationally including on YouTube.