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Spoilers follow for the season-20 finale of Taskmaster, which <\/strong>premiered on YouTube<\/strong><\/a> at 5 p.m. Eastern on November 13.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Every episode of the British game show Taskmaster is a new experiment in reading comprehension, creative thinking, and wondering, Which of these five contestants will lose their patience first? It\u2019s harder than it looks to win a horse race while eating a plate of olives and grapes and throwing darts, or painting a portrait using only substances you can dribble out of your mouth. It\u2019s great television.<\/p>\n Taskmaster has a simple conceit: Five comedians or performers compete against one another for the approval of the tyrannical Taskmaster, a role played with gusto by Greg Davies. The Taskmaster\u2019s \u201cassistant,\u201d \u201cLittle\u201d Alex Horne, introduces the contestants to the Taskmaster House in London, presents them with their tasks, and oversees their performance over a number of weeks. (Horne, who created and executive-produces the show, also designs all the tasks and scores and performs the series\u2019 music with his band, the Horne Section.) After the tasks are finished, the five contestants meet in a studio in front of a live audience, where they watch the tasks back with Davies and Horne and receive points for their performances from Davies. At the end of the season, the contestant with the most accumulated points wins a meaningless prize: a bust of Davies\u2019s head.<\/p>\n Over ten years, Taskmaster has gathered a rabidly adoring fan base in the U.K., where it\u2019s a cornerstone of the comedy-panel-show circuit and spawned a cottage industry of podcasts and international versions. Its joys are many: the discovery of new comedians, the chemistry among the cast members, the outlandishness of the tasks themselves, and the lovingly prickly dom-sub dynamic between Davies and Horne in studio. Each season feels like a highly choreographed descent into comedic madness, especially this year\u2019s two offerings. Season 19 featured the series\u2019 first American contestant, Jason Mantzoukas<\/a>, who made it his mission to destroy as much of the Taskmaster House as possible. Season 20 returned to an all-British lineup with contestants Maisie Adam, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Phil Ellis, Ania Magliano, and Reece Shearsmith, whose varying reactions to the tasks \u2014 hysteria, confusion, and, in Bhaskar\u2019s case, couldn\u2019t-be-fucked resignation \u2014 demonstrate the series\u2019s comedic range.<\/p>\n Thanks to Taskmaster\u2019s growth in viewers and YouTube subscribers<\/a>, the 20th season also featured a new release model. For the first time, weekly episodes aired simultaneously in the U.K. and U.S. on YouTube. And with Taskmaster renewed by Channel 4 through 2026 and series 21 already filmed, Horne and Davies are keeping the momentum going. \u201cGreg and I know less about the show than any of the people who watch it. We wouldn\u2019t know if we were filming episode No. 200 or 113,\u201d Horne says. \u201cWe move on fairly swiftly to the next weird, intense bit. Series 20 goes, and we\u2019ve done Series 21. In our heads, they\u2019re the next special people.\u201d<\/p>\n You\u2019ve now made more than 200 episodes of Taskmaster and the show has been on for a decade. Did you do anything different from previous seasons to celebrate?<\/strong> Alex Horne:<\/strong> It\u2019s exactly that. Each series, we think, Let\u2019s make this one better than the last one. But you don\u2019t want to single out this particular group of five people. It\u2019s more of the same and hopefully completely different, rather than saying, \u201cThis is special.\u201d<\/p>\n G.D.: <\/strong>Otherwise we\u2019d have a lot of upset comedians thinking we didn\u2019t think No. 17 was special. Each one does feel like a whole new thing. The combinations are always unique in their response to things.<\/p>\n This season ended with an unprecedented three-way tiebreak between Ania, Maisie, and Phil. The contestants had to remember how many instances of the letter T were in the American Gothic\u2013style portrait of you two in the house\u2019s living room. None of them correctly remembered it was four, but Maisie had the closest guess with five, so she won the season. What do you remember about the energy in the studio when that happened?\u00a0<\/strong> G.D.: <\/strong>Yeah, and she\u2019d been very cross, and normally the people who are very cross don\u2019t end up winning.<\/p>\n A.H.: <\/strong>Equally, Phil isn\u2019t a natural winner. Ania had every right to be in the top three, but no, there was a real sense of disbelief that three people ended up on exactly the same points. It was exciting. There was a feeling of, Well, what do we do? We could end an episode on a pre-film tie break, but not a series, because it would feel like we then have it within our control of picking the tie break. Luckily we had vaguely thought it through, and it had to be that odd thing of them guessing, really \u2014 hopefully with some thought. But again, I wouldn\u2019t have predicted Maisie would win something that involved measured thought.<\/p>\n \n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have predicted Maisie would win something that involved measured thought,\u201d says Horne. Part of the series\u2019 in-studio dynamic is this homoerotic relationship between you two, which this season got very specific with Alex mentioning the fan fiction, and Greg, your joke about leaving lube in the park. How do you maneuver acknowledging the fans\u2019 shipping without feeling like you\u2019re crossing some kind of line?<\/strong> A.H.:<\/strong> I also think it\u2019s quite fluid. Sometimes there\u2019s a season where, for some reason, we are quite intense in our relationship, and sometimes we\u2019re quite cold. It\u2019s just like life.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> It\u2019s like any marriage.<\/p>\n A.H.: <\/strong>We blow hot and cold. We should organize some special time, though, Greg. You know, make sure we don\u2019t let things die completely.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> We should. I find it as fascinating as you, Roxana. I don\u2019t know quite where it came from, but all I would say is, We have a lot of fun. And if there\u2019s something about it in the atmosphere, then we\u2019ll explore it.<\/p>\n A.H.:<\/strong> We feel pretty safe in each other\u2019s company in a comedy way. We know each other pretty well.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> What Alex means by that is he feels safe because he\u2019s a married man. And he thinks that provides some level of \u201cthings can\u2019t change.\u201d And what I would say is, Things do change.<\/p>\n Alex, you\u2019ve said tasks really take shape after the fifth contestant has finished, because then you get a sense of the edited narrative of the task. Was there a task this season that had the easiest narrative to envision?<\/strong> Do you have a favorite task from this season?<\/strong> A.H.: <\/strong>Me too. We\u2019ve done another series since. The making-things-awkward task<\/a> was good.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> That was great. That was my favorite from the season.<\/p>\n A.H.: <\/strong>We did this heist one<\/a>, which happened to come out the same week as the heist at the Louvre, which I really enjoyed. I do like the big-scale team tasks.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> The heist was the most excited I\u2019ve seen our director, Andy Devonshire, and he\u2019s quite an excitable gentleman, so that\u2019s saying something. He loved the filmic nature of that.<\/p>\n A.H.: <\/strong>Sometimes we literally forget 50 percent of the tasks or more.<\/p>\n G.D.: <\/strong>That\u2019s me. He\u2019s being kind. I\u2019m the one that has to be reminded of whom we\u2019ve had on the show. Granddad gets sleepy!<\/p>\n Every season casts five people who have palpable chemistry. What do you consider to be a successful dynamic for the cast?<\/strong> A.H.: <\/strong>We do try to think about, if we\u2019ve got somebody who\u2019s a bit dry, we need somebody sparky next to them. If you\u2019ve got somebody who\u2019s older, we try to have somebody younger. But there\u2019s no magic formula. Sometimes the person you think to be dry is a real live wire. Sometimes they\u2019re a really friendly group, and sometimes they\u2019re really prickly \u2014 we can\u2019t see it coming. We just try to make variety. We don\u2019t want two of the same people, but we\u2019ve also discovered there aren\u2019t two people who are the same, really.<\/p>\n Is there one cast that surprised you the most?\u00a0<\/strong> G.D.: <\/strong>There was one group we thought were going to be hard work in that we thought there were some fairly strident people in it, people who have sort of traded on confrontation, like Julian Clary. And then it was just a \u201960s love-in. They all fell in love with one another. It was in the Sue Perkins<\/a> year, series 16.<\/p>\n A.H.: <\/strong>That was the one, because it was Sam Campbell<\/a> and Julian. And we thought Julian was spiky on camera and off camera, but he was so lovely.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> They were hanging out all the time! To a great or a lesser extent, they all end up in weird lifelong friendship bonds, which speaks of what I said about how intense the world is for the time we\u2019re there.<\/p>\n How does casting work? Do people submit themselves? Are you reaching out?<\/strong> G.D.: <\/strong>Sometimes Alex and I say slightly flippant things in interviews, and it comes back to haunt us. One of the things we\u2019ve said at some point is that if anyone ever asks us to be on the show, they can\u2019t be on the show. I\u2019ve had that quoted back to me a few times. Just as I once flippantly said that Alex has only ever disliked one contestant on Taskmaster, and I constantly have people saying to me, \u201cWho is it? Who is it?\u201d Well, there is no person. And there is no hard and fast rule that if you want to be on the show, you can\u2019t be. It was just us being silly.<\/p>\n \n \u201cThere is a science to putting the right people together, but I don\u2019t think the science ever adds up the way we thought it would,\u201d says Davies. Greg, in season 16, you referred to Julian and his teammates, Sam and Lucy Beaumont, as \u201cUncle Julian and the two lunatics,\u201d which really speaks to the generational nature of the show. Often on teams, there is one older person paired with two younger people, like Sanjeev, Ania, and Phil this season. Why is that multigenerational balance is so important to the show?\u00a0<\/strong> A.H.:<\/strong> Although we split them into a two and a three for the teams, which is kind of arbitrary and weird because it\u2019s not fair, but it balances out somehow. Sometimes it\u2019s an uncle and two lunatics. With Ed Gamble, it was him, Katy Wix, and Rose Matafeo<\/a>, who were quite similar ages, and then Mom and Dad were David Baddiel and Jo Brand together. You had the generations with each other and Brand and Baddiel having cups of tea all the time. Hopefully it\u2019s different dynamics each time. For teams, it comes down to who\u2019s available when. Sometimes I do think, Who would go well with someone? But at the end of the day, if they can\u2019t make filming work, they\u2019re just shoved into whichever side that fits.<\/p>\n James Acaster <\/strong>was on Vulture\u2019s Good One podcast<\/strong><\/a>, and he described coming into the Taskmaster House thinking he would tackle each task with a certain strategy, but when he got there, all that planning went out the window. Greg, you mentioned watching that happen with every cast, to a certain degree. Do you think this is a show that can support strategy, period?<\/strong> G.D.:<\/strong> It doesn\u2019t really allow for that. They don\u2019t get a chance to apply an existing comedic persona to this, because there\u2019s, you know, ducks to be fished out of a pond or whatever. And Alex is very good at wrong-footing people. If I go on a panel show about current events, I will enforce the Greg Davies comedy persona as best as I can. You can\u2019t with Taskmaster, you just have to roll with it. People reveal sides of themselves they wouldn\u2019t normally reveal.<\/p>\n Alex, how are you coming up with tasks? What is your process?\u00a0<\/strong> G.D.:<\/strong> Roxana, his ability to constantly churn out tasks is borderline perverse. It\u2019s as close to an illness as you can get. And I\u2019ll honestly say, in 20 seasons, I\u2019ve not heard him complain once. When I write, I smash my home up with rage. He just has this bizarre ability to keep surprising us.<\/p>\n A.H.:<\/strong> I\u2019m coming up with half a script where they complete it. I write the setup line and they do the punchline.<\/p>\n G.D.: <\/strong>It\u2019s still remarkable. And I\u2019m not one to praise him, as you know.<\/p>\n James also said that on his first day, he filmed five tasks. Alex, do you have a sense of how many tasks it takes for competitors to feel like they\u2019ve found their groove?\u00a0<\/strong> G.D.:<\/strong> I didn\u2019t actually know that. That\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n A.H.:<\/strong> It\u2019s slightly manipulating them, but only insofar as they\u2019re getting the same task on a different day.<\/p>\n Greg, have you ever suggested a task?<\/strong> A.H.:<\/strong> It\u2019s only me and the tiny production team who know all these tasks intimately. When people suggest tasks, we tend to say, \u201cYeah, we\u2019ve done that one,\u201d or \u201cYeah, we tried that, it didn\u2019t work.\u201d I\u2019m sure Greg could come up with loads of good stuff, but I think we know our roles. There\u2019s something funny about the fact that Greg doesn\u2019t come up with the tasks that they have to complete for him.<\/p>\n G.D.: <\/strong>We\u2019ve always enjoyed that idea, that I\u2019m such a lazy dictator that my instruction is \u201cI want them to be put through a difficult situation. You decide what.\u201d It\u2019s quite in keeping with dictators from history, really. They\u2019re very rarely on the detail of it.<\/p>\n Taskmaster has one the best editing teams in television in terms of creating distinct narratives about the tasks and how they\u2019re performed. One of the recurring elements is that if one person\u2019s performance for a task has been singled out, that means they either did well or they did horribly. How else would you describe the approach to the performance montages?\u00a0<\/strong> G.D.: <\/strong>Nearly every task, there\u2019s someone who absolutely loses their mind, and then there\u2019s someone who\u2019ll find a funny angle and someone who\u2019s victimizing Alex. So much ends up on the cutting-room floor because the contestants give us so much to do with the edit.<\/p>\n A.H.:<\/strong> We do an edit for the studio guessing where the laughs will be. We\u2019re trying to leave a little gap after a funny line. And then we do another edit after the studio to tighten up the tasks. It goes through a lot more editing than most comedy panel shows.<\/p>\n Greg, sometimes when a contestant tries to advocate for themselves, or for other people, you seem to have a reaction of, \u201cI\u2019m not going to do what you tell me to do.\u201d I\u2019m curious how much of that is you maintaining the Taskmaster persona.\u00a0<\/strong> A.H.:<\/strong> In the old days, Greg and I used to meet up in the week before and prepare a bit more. Now we try to keep it as fresh as possible. Greg will have some things he knows he might say, but I won\u2019t tell him what I\u2019m gonna say, and he won\u2019t tell me what he\u2019s gonna say.<\/p>\n G.D.:<\/strong> There\u2019s no lies in what you see. I don\u2019t prejudge the tasks. I\u2019ll sometimes watch some of the more complicated videos beforehand, because otherwise I\u2019ll miss things in the studio\u00a0\u2014 it\u2019d be preposterous for me to suggest I\u2019m seeing them all for the first time. But I watch them in isolation. And I try not to score them until we\u2019re in the room. I can\u2019t explain it \u2014 there\u2019s a bizarre alchemy in the studio that affects what you\u2019re watching. Social media is constantly accusing me of being inconsistent and throwing people under the bus on a whim. That\u2019s never the case. I always, in the moment, score it the way I see fit. I\u2019m frequently wrong. But in that part of our universe, they are subject to my whims. And I\u2019m a judge who\u2019s been asked to make multiple judgments over a 2.5-hour piece of improvisation.<\/p>\n Have there been any contestants whose in-studio personas were really memorable to you? I\u2019m thinking of Fatiha El-Ghorri on season 19 trying to get you to marry her, or this season, Ania\u2019s running gag that you, Greg, are secretly her biological father and abandoned her.\u00a0<\/strong> A.H.:<\/strong> For me, Fern Brady and John Kearns in series 14 were sparky and funny. We didn\u2019t know what they were going to say. And similarly, Sam Campbell was definitely one of our favorites. It\u2019s always nice when there\u2019s someone who we think, Oh, we\u2019ve not had that type of person before.<\/p>\n G.D.: <\/strong>My favorite thing that\u2019s been said to me personally was Sam Campbell asking me<\/a> if I was a child of divorce. It\u2019s simply the best thing that\u2019s been said to me on 20 seasons.<\/p>\n Have you ever considered or have people ever asked to be repeat contestants, outside of the tournament of champions?<\/strong> Jason was the first American contestant from the U.S. who was coming over to film, rather than an American who now lives in the U.K. Has his appearance opened the door to other Americans?<\/strong> G.D.: <\/strong>We love that we\u2019ve got different nations wanting to be part of the madness.<\/p>\n A.H.: <\/strong>It helps that Jason wasn\u2019t well-known here, but everyone said, \u201cOh, that guy!\u201d He\u2019d been in a lot of things, but he\u2019s not your go-to. If you were to name an American comedian everyone\u2019s heard of here, it wouldn\u2019t be him. He was a really useful first.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been asked by my colleagues to say certain names to you, and I\u2019m wondering if you would tell me, have you ever approached them to be on the show? The first one is Matt Berry.<\/strong> G.D.: <\/strong>That\u2019s what I was going to say. I would be absolutely fascinated by that, because there\u2019s such a strong flavor to every character Matt plays. I have met him, but very briefly. He couldn\u2019t be as flamboyant as his characters; he seemed quite quiet by comparison. That would be intriguing.<\/p>\n Emma Thompson.<\/strong> A.H.:<\/strong> I can\u2019t imagine her agreeing to do 10 episodes of our stupid show, but one would be great. She\u2019s from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie\u2019s era at Footlights. Any of that bunch would be great.<\/p>\n G.D.: <\/strong>She\u2019d be great to have on one of the specials. You\u2019d have to see a return to me being quite dogmatic and strict. That\u2019s the only way to contain someone as flamboyant as Emma.<\/p>\n
Greg Davies:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think we ever discussed doing anything special because it was number 20. I don\u2019t think him and I are sentimental enough about round numbers.<\/p>\n
\ufeffA.H.:<\/strong> It was quite weird. It\u2019s the finale, but the audience hasn\u2019t seen anything else. We keep them up to date a bit, but they don\u2019t know the running jokes. We sometimes have to say, \u201cJust so you know, this has happened.\u201d But there is also a sense of occasion by episode 10. We knew this one was close, but we didn\u2019t know it was that close. And it did feel momentous, maybe because it was series 20. But I think it was a surprise mainly because Maisie had been so rubbish throughout, but she ended up in the top three!<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/be0ed8568f0a6f6147618235679d6305cb-taskmaster-s20-3.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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\ufeffG.D.: <\/strong>Well, I think that any homoeroticism on display is entirely those people\u2019s fault. We\u2019re very suggestible human beings, and it\u2019s funnier to lean into that stuff than it is to refute it. But maybe it\u2019s there, Roxana. I\u2019m open to there being feelings between Alex and I that we haven\u2019t yet explored. [Laughs.]<\/p>\n
\ufeffA.H.: <\/strong>The Snakes and Steps task<\/a> was pretty clear. It was such an elaborate setup. A two-parter task is really annoying for us in production because it\u2019s twice the work. You film half of it at the house and half of it on location. We let them design the board, and they didn\u2019t know what was coming. It was out of our control, and it was very nearly that all five of them completed it so simply, but the fact that the game didn\u2019t fall Reece\u2019s way, that was just a really fun, easy narrative to go, \u201cWe\u2019ll have four people doing it quickly, and then there\u2019s Reece.\u201d It wasn\u2019t hard to tell the editor what we wanted.<\/p>\n
G.D.: <\/strong>My problem is remembering, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
G.D.:<\/strong> I\u2019ve never not been confounded by how any group of five have presented themselves under pressure. There is a science to putting the right people together, but I don\u2019t think the science ever adds up the way we thought it would.<\/p>\n
A.H.: <\/strong>I would say series one was quite interesting, because it kicked it off. They immediately set up a WhatsApp group and some of us went to Cologne as a group afterwards, which you don\u2019t normally do after a TV show.<\/p>\n
A.H.: <\/strong>It is a rough-and-ready process. Sometimes we\u2019ll hear that someone\u2019s interested. With Jason Mantzoukas<\/a>, he came to us, which is unusual. Greg and I both have people we think would be brilliant, and we might talk to them personally. We hear about people through the grapevine who are sort of newer, because we don\u2019t have our finger on the pulse quite as much. But we have friends, like Ed Gamble or Tim Key, who do seem to know more than us. It\u2019s a small comedy community, and we know most people, I suppose. We talked about Eric Idle today. I suddenly realized, we\u2019ve never asked Eric Idle! I think he\u2019d be brilliant.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fd12dc6cc83ccde23e1ff380f7625bcec1-taskmaster-s20-2.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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\ufeffG.D.: <\/strong>The comedy world over here is ever-changing. There are comics from different generations who treat performance and comedy in a different way, and it\u2019s fascinating that performative styles are ever-shifting. If we had all 25-year-olds, there\u2019s a good chance we might have a group that\u2019s not too dissimilar from each other. You break that by having different generations. I also think a lot of good comedy is basically a family unit \u2014 we often end up having a mum, dad, or some version of a broken family. I love it when a family bond starts.<\/p>\n
\ufeffA.H.:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think you can have much of a plan, because we want people to be themselves and react in the moment. If you\u2019re thinking, I plan to do it in this way, I just don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to be as funny. Jason actually had more of a plan than anyone else because he knew the show inside out and he wanted to make a splash and do his thing. But in general, I tell people, no pre-prepared jokes, nothing that you\u2019ve rehearsed.<\/p>\n
A.H.: <\/strong>Without seeming too pretentious, I do see it as writing jokes. I did stand-up comedy for a long time. You have a constant bubbling of ideas as a comic; you notice things and think, That\u2019s interesting. Now my intuition is tuned to what would make a good task. I do have a constant load of notes on my phone, and then I go away for two days somewhere and try to solidify them. I used to go to my hot tub a lot because there\u2019s no distractions. I don\u2019t have a hot tub currently, which is tragic. It\u2019s dog walks now. Each season, I have a general number, which is about 30 individual ones. You only need 25 because you have the team ones as well. We\u2019re quite lucky that if a task fails, often, it\u2019s still funny. And if I look bad, then that\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n
A.H.: <\/strong>Day one is definitely different to day two. Day one, they\u2019re slightly mad and slightly more skittish. By day two, they\u2019re ready. We often give two different contestants different tasks on day one and day two. They might come at it from a day-two persona compared to a day-one persona. It\u2019s quite nice to not have everyone rabbit-in-the-headlights on the same task.<\/p>\n
G.D.:<\/strong> In our very early discussions for the show, when Alex first approached me, he did say, \u201cIf you\u2019d like to be part of the task team, we could make that part of the deal,\u201d but it quickly became apparent that he doesn\u2019t need me to do that. I would happily sit and brainstorm, but I just don\u2019t think he needs it.<\/p>\n
A.H.:<\/strong> The editors are the most important, unheralded group. Hopefully each montage is slightly different. As soon as we get five people having completed a task, we start the editing of that task. Each one takes like a week, so that\u2019s about 30 weeks. We have three editors, and it\u2019s a rolling thing. It\u2019s laborious, in a positive way. There\u2019s a lot of instinct, and people thinking, This feels like this would work next to that one. You have the light and shade, somebody being really talkative next to someone being silent. We treat each task individually as a mini little film.<\/p>\n
G.D.: <\/strong>If you watch the series from the beginning, you can see a real change in the Taskmaster in the studio. I\u2019ve got quite soft in recent years, but that our dynamic has changed subtly as well; perhaps I\u2019m not so vindictive to Alex anymore. In the last couple of seasons, I\u2019ve allowed people to change my mind, whereas perhaps in the early seasons, I would do exactly what you\u2019ve said, be dogged in scoring it the way I wanted to. It\u2019s much easier to say, I am this mad dictator who won\u2019t change his mind. In recent seasons, it\u2019s a bit more nuanced because we all know what we\u2019re doing. People don\u2019t mind that flexibility. Sometimes they\u2019ll do a big group task where everyone did so many creative, wonderful things, and if we take the letter of the law, there will be people who should score zero because they didn\u2019t tick off one aspect of the task. More recently, we\u2019ll let those things slide because it feels in the spirit of the response. But at the same time, we\u2019ve reserved the right to decide.<\/p>\n
G.D.:<\/strong> Fatiha deciding she was going to make me her husband happened fairly spontaneously in one of the episodes, and we both kept looping to it. I think Ania had thought of how the dates add up that I could be her father, which I find vile and depressing. But I loved her runner. I love seizing on those things.<\/p>\n
A.H.:<\/strong> People want it, which spoils the magic. The question I get asked the most is, \u201cWill you do a Loser of Losers?\u201d Champion of Champions is one thing, but as soon as they\u2019ve done it once, the bubble\u2019s burst a bit. They know how to play the game, and it\u2019s not as natural. Also, having someone back means we don\u2019t have someone new. However, never say never. And we have some idea for the future where we might do something where some people come back, so we can\u2019t say much more.<\/p>\n
A.H.: <\/strong>We\u2019re really open to it. We\u2019re not trying to court America, but there are voices that can be on the show. Yes is the answer.<\/p>\n
A.H.: <\/strong>He\u2019s on a list and I think he\u2019d be great. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve approached him, and I\u2019d like to know if he\u2019d want to do it. He\u2019s got a great persona. I haven\u2019t seen him be Matt Berry<\/a> that much.<\/p>\n
G.D.: <\/strong>A national treasure over here, and famously outspoken. I think she\u2019d be a great challenge for me in my role. She immediately commands more authority than me, so I\u2019d have to dig deep.<\/p>\n