TV and Film Props

TASKMASTER series 10

Channel 4 (2020)

Comedians Greg Davies & Alex Horne on Cow Model

The frankly, bizarre gameshow Taskmaster has just changed channels to Channel 4, and is just as side-splittingly silly as before.

Most of the show`s challenges take place in someone`s back garden, complete with shed, eccentric-looking caravan and one of our model milking cows.

Hosted by comedians Greg Davies and Alex Horne, the show takes a handful of comedians – which in this 10^th series includes Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring. They then challenge the contestants to compete in various absurd and pointless tasks set by Horne, with the aim of impressing “Taskmaster” Davies.

GOOD MORNING BRITAIN

Featuring Celebs On The Farm (2018)

With Jeremy Kyle presenting Good Morning Britain alongside Kate Garraway & Charlotte Hawkins; one of our model milking cows headed down to the ITV Studios in London to promote a new series which was about to air; entitled Celebs On The Farm.

Similar to former Channel 5 show The Farm, the series followed a number of celebrities learning how to operate a working farm and all the drama that comes along with it. Britannia our milking cow, went along to demonstrate just how hard life is in the countryside.

THE ONE SHOW (2012)

Glimpsed at Speed featuring Phil Tufnell

For a recent series, BBC`s magazine programme “The ONE Show” filmed an episode called “Glimpsed at Speed”.
This particular series featured celebrity Phil Tufnell touring the country and telling the story behind unusual landmarks, motorists would normally speed past.

Falling into that category ; this episode featured our associated business ; The Horn Milk Bar . Four million viewers tuned in to watch Phil find out about the iconic building on the A90 midway between Perth & Dundee with the life size model cow on top of the roof.

And when The ONE Show producers found out that The Horn was connected to this life size model animal business; they asked if it would be possible for Phil to milk one of our model milkers in the restaurant. We were only too happy to oblige; however Phil was in for a bit of a surprise. After adorning Head Dairyman Tufnell with his pristine white coat and badge (to reflect his mighty position) , he sat down on his milking stool.

After saying his “piece to camera”; he proceeded to demonstrate his expert milking technique...

Now, what he wasn`t aware of ; or even ready for ; was the fact that this particular milking cow was also specially wired for sound – and so could talk!

So on squeezing her udders – the milking cow bellowed “Tuffers – not so hard ! “ ; at which point our hapless presenter fell off his milking stool. Other comments such as “Your hands are friesian” and “Tuffers you`ve done this before !”quickly followed, and allied to the frequent loud sound of cow flatulance; reduced England`s ex-cricketer to tears ….

After checking out some of our other animal models; filming then moved onto a local school where enthusiastic children were given a lesson about milk production from a representative of The Royal Highland Educational Trust . As an organisation which is actively promoting the Scottish Agricultural Environment,  RHET “take the classroom into the countryside ” by going out into the community and undertaking educational programmes focusing on aspects such as farming and food production.

Our model milking cow has proved such a hit with these types of programmes, that it is now the central point of the mobile classrooms which attend various activities and events held throughout the country.( RHET now have 7 milking cows spread all over Scotland) Tuffers was given a front row seat to find out just what the kids were learning.