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Q: Are they still producing new episodes of "Cash Cab"? If so, when will the new season start?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

The actual end date differs depending on which version you're thinking of, but the answer, regardless, is no.

There were literally dozens of different versions of "Cash Cab" produced around the world -- as is often the case with popular reality and game shows -- including separate ones in the U.S. and Canada. (This is presumably to get around the thorny history and geography questions -- a Canadian can't be expected to know who William Taft was, and an American wouldn't likely know where Yellowknife is.)

Some of them are ongoing, but the Canada and U.S. versions are both now off the street and off the air (except in reruns).

The American "Cash Cab" had a bit of a bumpy ride en route to ending in 2020 -- it was originally cancelled in 2012, revived in 2017 and then shifted from Discovery Channel to Bravo in 2019 before getting canceled again a year later.

The Canadian version rode straighter, at least -- it premiered in 2008 and ended in 2015, all on Discovery Channel Canada.

I say "the" Canadian version, but actually, there were two: the French-language version, "Taxi Payant," aired on the V network from 2009 until last year.

All versions, though, followed the original, British version, which debuted back in 2005. Amazingly, despite having launched so many long-running spinoffs, the U.K. version only lasted about a year.

 

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