The joy of seeing apparently robust, intelligent people such as Katherine Parkinson and Mawaan Rizwan crumble hopelessly under pressure never lessens
We have bread, thanks to the return of The Great British Bake Off in all its glory, and now we have our circuses, too. Taskmaster is back! Sure, in an ideal world we would have a functioning test and trace system instead, and a government fully on top of all possible national measures to protect its citizens, but we are where we are, and superficial distractions and emotional buttressing via comfort-entertainments are the only aids we have, so dig in.
Like Bake Off, Taskmaster has moved to Channel 4 (albeit from UKTV’s Dave rather than the BBC) and, like Bake Off, seems to have suffered not a jot from the translocation. All is gloriously as it gloriously was. Which is to say – charming, batshit, hilarious, determinedly low stakes, entirely absorbing and restorative throughout.
