This Hour Has America's 22 Minutes

This Hour Has America's 22 Minutes (commonly shortened to 22 Minutes since 2009) is an American version of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, produced by WildBrain (formerly Salter Street Films, Halifax Film, and DHX Media), Alliance Atlantis (2004-2005), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Broadway Video, Entertainment One (2020-present), ITV Studios America (formerly Granada Entertainment and Granada America) and RKO Entertainment (formerly RKO Television Studios) and aired on the RKO Network from October 27, 1996 to July 21, 2017 and again on RKO Two since February 8, 2020. The first six seasons aired on Sunday 8:00PM competing with The Simpsons on Fox, the number one show at a time. For the rest of it's RKO Network run, it aired on Fridays at 11:00PM. The revived RKO Two series airs on Saturdays at 10:00PM. The show was cancelled in 2017 due to increasingly low ratings, but was revived in 2020 with a new set of hosts.

For the show's original 20 year-long run, it was taped in, but starting with the 2020 revival it has been taped at the 31st Street Studios in ,.  is one of several RKO Network programmes to make the move to Pennsylvania, joining the formerly Los Angeles-based Build and Solve (also taped at 31st Street Studios) and the formerly New York City-based soap operas All Day and Summer Bodies (taped at ).

The series had initially received positive reviews during the early stages of it's original run but in later years reviews had evolved into being more mixed, with criticism aimed at jokes and the parodies. The 2020 revival has been critically acclaimed, and has been entered in RKO's "For Your Consideration" appeal for the.

On March 14, 2020, it was announced that the show will be on hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic (of which the night's episode focused around) and would return on June 6, 2020 without an audience and with some cast members appearing from home over a live streaming connection. Production on a film spin-off titled The American Dream Is Overrated is also scheduled to start.

Studios
For the first 22 seasons,  was taped in. Seasons 1-5 were taped at the, while Seasons 6-22 were taped at. The series shared the Chelsea Studios facility with The Tyra Banks Show and Rachel Ray, among other shows.

For Season 23, the revival series, production was moved from New York City to, , where the series is now taped at 31st Street Studios, alongside game show Build and Solve and talk shows The Jeremy Clarkson Show and Out of Sight with Milo Fukunaga (Milo Fukunaga ironically is a  alumni). This move was made in part because the Pennsylvania Film Office offered RKO Entertainment a tax credit if production for some of their TV shows was moved to the state.

United States

 * RKO Network (1996-2017)
 * RKO Two (2020-present)