CW has ordered a second season, 24 episodes, of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Today’s announcement was a no-brainer — its launch this summer clocked an average of nearly 3 million viewers – CW’s most watched unscripted series premiere in six years. The second-season premiere date and timeslot were not announced. Ryan Styles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie star in, and Aisha Tyler hosts the update of the ABC improv show that ran eight seasons – based on a UK format. CW put out the announcement one day before it is scheduled to put on its dog-and-pony show at TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2013.
- 7/29/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
There's no more maligned comedy format than short-form improv. It falls somewhere below clowning on the respectability scale, inducing instant eye rolls from comedy geeks and making long-form improvisers shudder with disdain. It's fine; I get it — no one treasures super-schlocky one-liners. But when it's done well, short form is the quickest path between silence and laughter, and the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway? demonstrates once again how funny and joyous — and rare — spontaneity is on television.Whose Line got its start in the U.K., and the American version aired on ABC from 1998 to 2007. (It remained popular in reruns on ABC Family through 2011.) Now the CW is reviving the series, swapping in Aisha Tyler for Drew Carey as host but keeping the rest of the show basically intact: Colin Mochrie, Ryan Styles, and Wayne Brady are all back, as is musician Laura Hall. Tyler's great, and...
- 7/16/2013
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
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