Lion Television USA Receives New Order for Cash Cab

NEW YORK, February 21: Lion Television USA has received an
80-episode order from Discovery Channel for the Cash Cab game show.

Hosted by comedian Ben Bailey,
each half-hour episode of Cash Cab
features unsuspecting commuters who step inside a seemingly ordinary cab, and
suddenly discover that they are on national television with a chance to win
cash on the way to their destination. If contestants get three questions wrong,
they are kicked out of the cab before reaching their destination.

All3Media International, the
distribution division of Lion Television’s parent company, has licensed the Cash
Cab format to a variety of broadcasters
that include ITV in the U.K., TNT in Russia, TV4 in Poland, Kabel1 in Germany,
BNN in Netherlands, Telemadrid in Spain, City TV in Colombia, Anteve in
Indonesia, Mega in Greece, Show TV in Turkey and XYZ Networks in Australia,
among others. The program has also been optioned in France, New Zealand,
Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Israel, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Austria,
Italy, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ukraine, Portugal, Australia, Malaysia,
South Africa and Chile.