Channel 4 announces new Taskmaster spin-off, Your Time Starts Now

Swapping comedians for households!

At this year's Edinburgh Television Festival, Channel 4 confirmed that following a successful pilot, it has ordered an eight-part series of Your Time Starts Now, a new play-at-home gameshow from Taskmaster creator Alex Horne.

Your Time Starts Now enables households across the UK to tackle his tasks in their actual homes as UK households compete against one another while tackling a host of his typically devious tasks without ever leaving their homes.

Five teams of friends and families across the UK will need to display creativity, lateral thinking, speed, knowledge and teamwork if they want to win.

Each task has a cash reward, and the household with the most money at the end of the episode has a choice to leave with their winnings or play for double that amount the following week, meaning someone could win a potential cash prize of millions at the end of the series.

Set in the Taskmaster universe, the new show builds on the at-home ingenuity of earlier incarnation The Button, which Horne devised and narrated in 2018, and HomeTasking that saw Horne on a mission to entertain a world stuck in 2020’s lockdown.

Speaking ahead of the new series, creator and host Alex Horne said "I often hear about friends, families, colleagues and teammates doing our Tasks on holidays or at weddings, scout camps and Christmas dinners, but I seldom hear that these people have sought permission to do so."

"Now, finally, we will harness the country and be able to set challenges within a rigorous framework so that the rules are properly adhered to, everyone is judged appropriately and the best rightfully rewarded. Also, I think it's going be very fun for everyone, and that's got to be a good thing."

To which Jon Thoday, Executive Producer at Avalon, added "It’s an absolute delight to have the backing of Channel 4 to realise a new show from Alex Horne and Andy Devonshire and their amazing team."

Tom Beck, Head of Live Events and Commissioning Editor, said "The pilot delivered laughter, warmth, comedy and families arguing over why they’d failed to nail an obviously ludicrous task. It’s joyful! Roll on the series."

And Andy Devonshire, Director and Executive Producer, added, "Time waits for no one, so you may as well be doing tasks. This is a chance for everyone to have a go without leaving the house."

Made by Avalon, Your Time Starts Now is devised and developed by Alex Horne and Andy Devonshire and executive produced by Alex Horne, Richard Allen-Turner, Jon Thoday, James Taylor, and Andy Devonshire, who also acts as Series Director, with Sallie Clement as Series Editor and Lizzie Gill as Series Producer.

Your Time Starts Now will air on Channel 4