diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d2dde3140..f8cc8447d8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 - Fixed a bug where translation metrics were not computed correctly ([#992](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/pull/992))
 
+- Fixed a bug where additional `DataModule` keyword arguments could not be configured with Flash Zero for some tasks ([#994](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/pull/994))
+
 - Fixed a bug where the TabularForecaster would not work with some versions of pandas ([#995](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/pull/995))
 
 ### Removed
diff --git a/flash/core/utilities/flash_cli.py b/flash/core/utilities/flash_cli.py
index bd0992afba..77814dad6b 100644
--- a/flash/core/utilities/flash_cli.py
+++ b/flash/core/utilities/flash_cli.py
@@ -76,6 +76,14 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
     return wrapper
 
 
+def get_kwarg_name(func) -> Optional[str]:
+    sig = signature(func)
+    var_kwargs = [p for p in sig.parameters.values() if p.kind == p.VAR_KEYWORD]
+    if len(var_kwargs) == 1:
+        return var_kwargs[0].name
+    return None
+
+
 def make_args_optional(cls, args: Set[str]):
     @wraps(cls)
     def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
@@ -211,22 +219,33 @@ def add_arguments_to_parser(self, parser) -> None:
 
     def add_subcommand_from_function(self, subcommands, function, function_name=None):
         subcommand = ArgumentParser()
-        datamodule_function = class_from_function(drop_kwargs(function), return_type=self.local_datamodule_class)
-        subcommand.add_class_arguments(datamodule_function, fail_untyped=False)
         if self.legacy:
+            datamodule_function = class_from_function(drop_kwargs(function), return_type=self.local_datamodule_class)
+            subcommand.add_class_arguments(datamodule_function, fail_untyped=False)
             input_transform_function = class_from_function(drop_kwargs(self.local_datamodule_class.input_transform_cls))
             subcommand.add_class_arguments(
                 input_transform_function,
                 fail_untyped=False,
                 skip=get_overlapping_args(datamodule_function, input_transform_function),
             )
-        else:
-            base_datamodule_function = class_from_function(drop_kwargs(self.local_datamodule_class))
+        elif get_kwarg_name(function) == "data_module_kwargs":
+            datamodule_function = class_from_function(function, return_type=self.local_datamodule_class)
             subcommand.add_class_arguments(
-                base_datamodule_function,
+                datamodule_function,
                 fail_untyped=False,
-                skip=get_overlapping_args(datamodule_function, base_datamodule_function),
+                skip={
+                    "self",
+                    "train_dataset",
+                    "val_dataset",
+                    "test_dataset",
+                    "predict_dataset",
+                    "input",
+                    "input_transform",
+                },
             )
+        else:
+            datamodule_function = class_from_function(drop_kwargs(function), return_type=self.local_datamodule_class)
+            subcommand.add_class_arguments(datamodule_function, fail_untyped=False)
         subcommand_name = function_name or function.__name__
         subcommands.add_subcommand(subcommand_name, subcommand)
         self._subcommand_builders[subcommand_name] = function
diff --git a/flash/tabular/forecasting/cli.py b/flash/tabular/forecasting/cli.py
index 44548587b8..f2260a68bf 100644
--- a/flash/tabular/forecasting/cli.py
+++ b/flash/tabular/forecasting/cli.py
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ def from_synthetic_ar_data(
     n_series: int = 100,
     max_encoder_length: int = 60,
     max_prediction_length: int = 20,
-    **data_module_kwargs,
+    batch_size: int = 4,
+    num_workers: int = 0,
+    **time_series_dataset_kwargs,
 ) -> TabularForecastingData:
     """Creates and loads a synthetic auto-regressive (AR) data set."""
     data = generate_ar_data(seasonality=seasonality, timesteps=timesteps, n_series=n_series, seed=42)
@@ -51,7 +53,9 @@ def from_synthetic_ar_data(
         max_prediction_length=max_prediction_length,
         train_data_frame=data[lambda x: x.time_idx <= training_cutoff],
         val_data_frame=data,
-        **data_module_kwargs,
+        batch_size=batch_size,
+        num_workers=num_workers,
+        **time_series_dataset_kwargs,
     )