Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Star World, 9pm) has been synonymous with British comedian and former barrister Clive Anderson. But in the American version, it is the stand-up comic, accordion player and former waiter Drew Carey who leads the comedy show.
Host Carey sets the scene for four comedians, including regulars Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie, with musician Laura Hall providing the musical cues, to improvise their way through the half-hour. This was a skill Anderson had learned well since his Cambridge Footlights days. It remains to be seen if Carey, in the more staged environment of American comedy, can match him.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? is regarded as something completely unique for American television, as improvised comedy that doesn't need 'no stinking scripts'.
This is in stark contrast to the rigging that went on in the games show Twenty One featured in Saturday's Quiz Show.
Twenty One, incidentally, is no longer just history. Yesterday, the show that was the most publicly compromised by corporate and contestants' greed returned to America's NBC network, hosted by Maury Povich.
There is nothing new about our avaricious age, as we're finding out in the intriguing Aristocrats (Pearl, 9.30pm), which is not just entertaining drama, but a fascinating portrait of the politics of the period.
