1. It's faster with more interesting contestants.2. I find the UK version needlessly long at 45 minutes while the US version is just 22 minutes (I'm discounting commercials).3. The 'task' are fun to watch while contestants strive to beat the clock. The US version gets straight to the point while the UK version seems to obsess on the contestants efforts and their reaction to the task ... ex. the watermelon eating ... boring!Give it a look!

It's only the first season, so at the moment all tasks are complete copies/repeats of tasks from the original version. So we'll have to give it a while to see if any new tasks are made, but for now the tasks are still funny/wacky.Reggie is no where near as good as Greg Davies. The host has to be crude, rude and a lil' be of a dictator. Reggie is a sugar coated, pg, let's not make any nasty comments, host. A good chunk of the humour is supposed to come from the banters between the host and the guests, this is completely missing.This goes double for the guests, who again are mostly family friendly, let's all hold hands happy. We need them to take the piss out of each other and banter off each other.So yeah, they've just taking a good, adult entertainment show, and made it a pg version with 1/3 of the banter and wit.Just get Greg Davies to be the US host, it's not like people are tuning in because Reggie's in it. I like Reggie but he is not the man for this job.It's also a bit odd to see blatant casual racism against the British, I thought we were in an era where we are saying no to racism.If you want to see how Taskmaster should be done, just watch the original.

Prefer it to the UK version, except the ones with Mortimer and Phillips.

It's almost the same format as the UK original, but shorter. Same kind of creative problem solving challenges. And Alex Horne is on hand to provide continuity. So far, so good. What's missing are the small details that make the UK show really funny and enjoyable: Reggie Watts is a big comedian, but he does not allow himself to be as outrageous as Greg Davies (the Taskmaster of the UK original series). No small part of the fun of the UK show is the banter between Davies and Horne (part bullying, part master-and-servant, part homoerotic) and the deprecating tone of the Taskmaster's judgement of the comedians' efforts - the fun in the original is the mock humiliation, willingly accepted by the contestants. I expected they'd cut that out of the US version of the show: it's not part of the culture. I guess that's exemplary of the cultural differences that make it hard to transpose UK (or Aussie) shows to the US. What's missing, is that the producers have not found anything to replace the bits that made the UK show enjoyable -but would not work for a US audience- with something else. So all we're left to contemplate are B-list comedians' goofy videos. It's watchable, but rarely will it make you burst out with laughter.