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*Le maître du jeu*
Le maître du jeu
Genre	Comedy; Panel game
Created by	Alex Horne
Directed by	Daniel Vigneault; Marc-Olivier Valiquette;
Presented by	Louis Morissette
Starring	Antoine Vézina (assistant)
Theme music composer	The Horne Section
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	French
No. of series	3 (+1 special)
No. of episodes	27 (incl. 1 special)
Production
Executive producers	Alain Chicoine; Louis Morissette; Louis-Philippe Drolet;
Producers	Véronique Rivard; Marilou Bachir-Legault;
Production locations	Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec (task filming); Rialto Theatre, Montreal (studio filming, S1); Studio Cinépool, LaSalle, Quebec (studio filming, S2 & S3);
Running time	44 minutes
Production company	KOTV
Original release
Network	Noovo
Release	15 September 2022 –; present
Related
	Taskmaster (British TV series)

Le maître du jeu ("The Master of Games") is a French-language Canadian comedy panel game show, first broadcast on Noovo in 2022. Based on the Taskmaster format created by comedian Alex Horne, it features a group of five comedians attempting to complete a series of challenges, judged by the maître du jeu (the taskmaster), Louis Morissette, with the help of his assistant, Antoine Vézina. It is the second Taskmaster adaptation in the Americas, after the U.S. version. One difference from the original is that there are no tiebreaker tasks, so participants tied for first place all win the episode, and share the prize pot.

The show is produced by KOTV, Morissette's production company,^[2] in collaboration with Bell Media.^[1] It is distributed by Avalon TV.^[3] The first season was broadcast in fall 2022, while the second was broadcast in fall 2023. A third season began broadcasting in fall 2024.

Cast

Contestants here are ordered by their surnames, rather than their seat placement (as done in other versions), as their seating order varies by episode.

Key

* Season champion

Season	Cast
1	Mehdi Bousaidan [fr]	Jo Cormier	Ève Côté [fr] *	Christine Morency [fr]	Matthieu Pepper [fr]
2	Marie-Lyne Joncas [fr]	Mona de Grenoble *	Kevin Raphaël	Phil Roy [fr]	Tammy Verge [fr]
HS	Mélissa Bédard [fr]	Patrice Bélanger [fr]	Virginie Fortin *	Pier-Luc Funk	Pierre Hébert [fr]
3	Virginie Fortin	Bianca Gervais [fr]	Alex Perron [fr]	Arnaud Soly	Richardson Zéphir [fr]

Episodes

Season 1 (2022)

Filming took place in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec in the early summer of 2022, with the in-studio tasks filmed from July 31 to August 8.^[4]

No.	Title	Winner	Original release date
1	"Tout le monde gagne" (Everyone wins)	Ève Côté	September 15, 2022 (2022-09-15)
2	"Un pied de sel" (A foot of salt)	Jo Cormier	September 22, 2022 (2022-09-22)
3	"Raaaaaaaacule!" (Ruuuuuuuuuhverse)	Mehdi Bousaidan	September 29, 2022 (2022-09-29)
4	"Toujours un plan B" (Always a plan B)	Christine Morency	October 6, 2022 (2022-10-06)
5	"Soixante-douze essais" (Seventy-two tries)	Ève Côté	October 13, 2022 (2022-10-13)
6	"Je suis un échec" (I am a failure)	Christine Morency	October 20, 2022 (2022-10-20)
7	"Hasta la vista!"	Jo Cormier	October 27, 2022 (2022-10-27)
8	"Todo recto" (Straight ahead)	Ève Côté	November 3, 2022 (2022-11-03)
9	"Le fils de Nicole" (Nicole's son)	Ève Côté & Mehdi Bousaidan (tie)	November 10, 2022 (2022-11-10)
10	"Christoeuf Coulant"	Mehdi Bousaidan	November 17, 2022 (2022-11-17)
11	"On touche, on skip!" (Touch it, skip it)	Matthieu Pepper	November 24, 2022 (2022-11-24)
12	"La grande finale" (The grand finale)	Christine Morency	December 1, 2022 (2022-12-01)

Season 2 (2023)

Filming for season 2 had already begun by May.^[5] In-studio tasks were filmed from July 30 to August 15.^[6]

No.	Title	Winner	Original release date
1	"Attaque de baleine" (Whale attack)	Phil Roy	September 14, 2023 (2023-09-14)
2	"Apitchou" (Achoo)	Marie-Lyne Joncas	September 21, 2023 (2023-09-21)
3	"L'équipe" (The team)	Kevin Raphaël	September 28, 2023 (2023-09-28)
4	"OK Boomer"	Marie-Lyne Joncas	October 5, 2023 (2023-10-05)
5	"Docteur Octopus" (Doctor Octopus)	Marie-Lyne Joncas	October 12, 2023 (2023-10-12)
6	"Masketi"	Phil Roy	October 19, 2023 (2023-10-19)
7	"Ich liebe dich"	Mona de Grenoble	October 26, 2023 (2023-10-26)
8	"Le traître" (The Traitor)	Phil Roy	November 2, 2023 (2023-11-02)
9	"Carpe diem"	Mona de Grenoble	November 9, 2023 (2023-11-09)
10	"La chandelle est morte" (The candle is dead)	Tammy Verge	November 16, 2023 (2023-11-16)
11	"Une opportunité" (An opportunity)	Mary-Lyne Joncas	November 23, 2023 (2023-11-23)
12	"L’autre gravité" (The other gravity)	Mary-Lyne Joncas	November 30, 2023 (2023-11-30)
13	"La grande finale" (The grand finale)	Mary-Lyne Joncas & Mona de Grenoble (tie)	December 7, 2023 (2023-12-07)

Holiday special (2023)

A one episode holiday special aired on December 14, 2023 with contestants Pierre Hébert [fr], Mélissa Bédard [fr], Patrice Bélanger [fr], Virginie Fortin, and Pier-Luc Funk.^[7]

No.	Title	Winner	Original release date
1	"Édition des Fêtes 2023" (Holiday special)	Virginie Fortin	December 15, 2023 (2023-12-15)

Season 3 (2024)

Production for a third season began by May 2024.^[8]^[9] It premiered on Noovo on September 12, 2024.^[10]

No.	Title	Winner	Original release date
1	"Soir de première" (Premier night)	Bianca Gervais	September 12, 2024 (2024-09-12)
2	"Danser comme Marcel" (Dance like Marcel)	Bianca Gervais & Virginie Fortin (tie)	September 19, 2024 (2024-09-19)
3	"Entre l'ombre et la lumière" (Between shadow and light)	Bianca Gervais	September 26, 2024 (2024-09-26)
4	"Méga le fun" (Mega fun)	Arnaud Soly	October 3, 2024 (2024-10-03)