An unmissable comedy challenge, a gentle spotlight on people with dementia, and Nadiya warms up America
Taskmaster (Channel 4) | All 4
Dementia Choir at Christmas (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Year That Changed Love (Channel 4) | All 4
Nadiya’s American Adventure (BBC One) | iPlayer
What a boon has been the latest series of Taskmaster in keeping some of us sane these past few weary weeks. A glorious kind of alchemy pervaded from the very first episode in 2015: five highly personable individuals, of undoubted “celeb” status but staunchly non-sleb in outlook, a pair of sweetly bickering hosts (Greg Davies and Alex Horne) and a phantasmagoria of truly outre tasks, the stuff of cheese-dreams – how this recipe somehow magicked itself into unmissable telly still has the more by-numbers tickbox “creatives” of the industry scratching heads.