The fifteenth and final season of the American sketch comedy series Mad TV premiered in the United States on The CW on July 26, 2016, and ended on September 27, 2016.
It was a reboot of the original series which aired from 1995 to 2009.
[1] Seven years after the show ended on FOX (and in celebration of the show's 20th anniversary), MADtv was briefly revived for eight episodes on The CW (with episodes rerunning on streaming service Hulu).
On the casting front, Nicole Sullivan, Will Sasso, Ike Barinholtz, Bobby Lee, Debra Wilson, Aries Spears, Alex Borstein, Mo Collins, and Anjelah Johnson returned as guests.
[citation needed] New cast members include Carlie Craig, Chelsea Davison, Jeremy D. Howard, Amir K (the show's first—and only—Middle Eastern cast member, as well as the second cast member after season one's Bryan Callen to be born outside of North America, and the only MADtv writer to be upgraded to cast member), Lyric Lewis, Piotr Michael, Michelle Ortiz, and Adam Ray.