2002, December 2003, August 2005, April 2006, and April 2007. GSN held back five unaired Hawaiian-themed episodes from season four, and these episodes later aired beginning January 1, 2007. In 2011, GSN announced the show would restart production after a nearly four-year hiatus, with Bill Engvall as the new host. One season of forty episodes premiered on June 6, 2011. The last first-run show aired on August 1, 2011. On February 11, 2022, CBS announced that it had ordered a primetime revival of Lingo, with RuPaul as host and executive producer; it was filmed at Dock10 in Salford, England (where the current British version is filmed) with American contestants. RuPaul also signed on to host a series of Celebrity Lingo episodes for broadcast in the UK. It premiered on January 11, 2023. On February 21, 2023, the series was renewed for a second season. Episode status The rights to the 1987 version of the show are held by Ion Television. Ion included it in a February 2007 "viewers vote" on its website, with site visitors being able to vote for the show to be included in the network's schedule. Despite this, Ion has not aired this or any other game show (except the previous year's Family Feud episodes by special arrangement) since 2005. The 2002 and 2011 versions of Lingo remain owned by Game Show Network. International versions {| class="wikitable" |- ! Country ! Name ! Host ! Channel ! Duration |- | rowspan=2| Canada | Lingo | Michael Reagan (1987)Ralph Andrews (1988) | Syndication | 1987–1988* |- | Lingo | Paul Houde | Télévision de Radio-Canada | 1998–2001 |- | France | Motus | Thierry Beccaro | Antenne 2France 2 | style="white-space: nowrap;"| 1990–2019 |- | Germany | 5 mal 5 | Bernd Schumacher | Sat.1 | 1993–1994 |- | Indonesia | Cocok – Coba-Coba Kata | Denny Chandra | SCTV | 1996–1998 |- | Israel | לינגוLingo | Gil AlonAssaf Ashtar | Channel 2 | 1994–19961997–1998 |- |rowspan=3| Italy | Lingo | Tiberio Timperi | Canale 5 | 1992–1993 |- | Una parola di troppo | Giancarlo Magalli | Rai 2 | 2021 |- | Lingo – Parole in gioco | Caterina Balivo | La7 | 2022–present |- | Jordan |Lingo| Abdallah Amara | Jordan 1 TV | 2019–present |- | Netherlands | Lingo| style="white-space: nowrap;"| Robert ten Brink (1989–1992)François Boulangé (1992–2000)Nance (2000–2005)Lucille Werner (2005–2014)Jan Versteegh (2019–present) |