The Cash Cab Is Making A Comeback

Hollywood Reporter – Cash Cab is back on duty.

Discovery Channel is rebooting the game show, which previously ran for 10 seasons, from 2005 to 2012, and won three Emmy Awards. Comedian David Steinberg has come on board as an executive producer of the show, which hails from original producers Lion USA along with Norton Productions.

The series finds unwitting passengers entering the “Cash Cab” expecting a normal taxi journey, only to discover they’re instant contestants in a game that could earn them a cash prize.

Dodging New York City traffic, these passengers will take on classic trivia en route to their destination. If they get stumped, pedestrians and friends can help them out via phone, text or social media shout-outs. If the riders get three questions wrong, they’re out on the street.

The new episodes will feature a twist: Stars from the worlds of comedy, film and TV will get behind the wheel of the cab itself as they pick up unsuspecting passengers.

Cash Cab returns to TV later this year. Emmy winner Ben Bailey was the host of the previous version, but a host for the new iteration has not been named.

This is the best news I’ve heard in a while. If you haven’t spent a whole day on the Discovery channel binge watching Cash Cab then you haven’t lived my friend. Maybe the best game show in the history of the world. If you’ve never seen it then get a taste of the electric factory in Sonya Smetanova.

I mean how can you stop watching? How pissed must Uber and Lyft be today? Like there’s a zero percent chance I ever take one of these ever again in favor of a taxi cab just praying I get on the Cash Cab.

They’ve yet to officially say who will be the host of the show, but it better fucking be Ben Bailey. I really don’t see how it wouldn’t and this is probably a good way to advertise the show’s return BUT….I advise everyone to retweet the fuck out of this.