Question for Brits

[Dan Gould]

Is this show still in production over there? I see a listing on Comedy Central for one of the original episodes (before Drew Carey brought it to ABC) that seems to have a production date of August 2004.

Anyone know? Thanks!

[Jason Drake]

I sure that I haven't seen a relatively up to date broadcast of this show in a long time on British TV...i think it ran out of steam a few years back (but I'm ready to be corrected)

[RDK]

Love the show - both Brit and U.S. versions. One of the funniest half-hours on TV...

[RDK]

found this on the net...

It started as a BBC radio show in 1986, and then translated to BBC television in 1988. In 1989 Hat Trick Productions received a BAFTA for its groundbreaking comedy improvisation show "Whose Line is it Anyway?". Whose Line remained on the BBC until 1998, when in its tenth season, it visited Hollywood to film the last shortened season for the BBC. While there the show format was sold to ABC and became the first British series to be produced in the US by its parent UK production company. Fall season of 1998, Hat Trick turned its new ABC prime-time show into a hit. For four years Whose Line would have a permanent place in the ABC prime-time line up, only moving from it's regular Thursday 8PM in 2002 when ABC tried it on both Monday and Friday nights. This proved to be too much for the show. In the fall of 2003, "Whose Line is it Anyway?" was not on the prime-time schedule on any station for the first time in 13 years. ***UPDATE*** The ABC Family Channel is showing "new" edits of old Whose Line tapings, with new games we've never seen. These are basically new episodes but just rehashed from previous years. Watch for them on Monday nights. A new episode at 9:00 p.m. EST and 10:00 p.m. EST. If you don't get ABC Family, look for downloads from this site and the message boards. Whose Line can still be seen around the world on smaller market cable channels, such as Comedy Central, who shows the UK series shows occasionally, ABC Family Channel, who shows the ABC series nearly nightly, and a few other channels globally.

[Dan Gould]

Thanks Ray. That production date must have been a mistake - I was pretty sure it hadn't been in simultaneous production on both sides of the pond. Would have been a helluva commute for Colin and Ryan!