The contestants for the second series of channel Dave's comedy challenge show Taskmaster have been announced.

Jon Richardson, Richard Osman, Joe Wilkinson, Katherine Ryan and Doc Brown will be the comics joining Greg Davies and Alex Horne for Series 2.

The channel explains: "As the Taskmaster, Greg Davies will set a series of stupefying tasks to this brand-new group of comedians with Alex Horne assisting as his right-hand-man, coaxing the hopeful champions to show their creativity, conniving and competitiveness.

"Once again, rivalry will be encouraged, dodgy tactics rewarded and pitiful attempts scoffed at in the most dogged, hard-fought and ridiculous comedy show on TV."

Created, written and produced by Horne, Taskmaster started out as a critically acclaimed live show, which ran at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010 and 2011.

Series 1 - broadcast in July 2015 - saw Roisin Conaty, Tim Key, Romesh Ranganathan, Frank Skinner and Josh Widdicombe compete for victory, with Widdicombe resorting of going to the extreme measure of getting the host's name tattooed on his foot to secure his place as series victor.

Studio segments for Series 2 of Taskmaster will be filmed on Monday (14th March). Tickets are now available. The series is set to be broadcast on Dave later this year.

Taskmaster has already been renewed for a third series, which is expected to be broadcast in 2017.