Channel 4 is piloting a new game-show format, tentatively titled Your Time Starts Now, from Taskmaster‘s Alex Horne and entertainment director Andy Devonshire.
The project is set in the Taskmaster universe and builds upon two previous shows, The Button, broadcast on the BBC, and HomeTasking on YouTube, as households compete against one another from their homes. It is being produced by Avalon.
Horne, creator and host, noted, “I’ve had the pleasure of being in the room while countless comedians have tried and usually failed on Taskmaster, and I’ve learned that for the most part, that lot are sneaky loveable idiots. With Your Time Starts Now, I’m now excited and intrigued to see how the rest of the country can cope doing simple things under the pressure of time constraints, dogged rivals, and my own snarky gaze.”
Tom Beck, head of live events and commissioning editor at Channel 4, added, “Wildly inventive, properly funny and rooted in real people being brilliant (and, occasionally, absolutely rubbish), Your Time Starts Now feels perfectly Channel 4. It’s an utterly distinctive celebration of British family life in all shapes and sizes, and I can’t wait see how our families get on as they try and tackle Alex and Andy’s ludicrous tasks. Why should comedians get all the fun?”
