 The last episode of The Lab aired on August 1, 2008.Despite the severe aging of the episodes and the content within which does not apply to technology past Windows Vista or the original iPhone, G4 Canada continued to run the series in repeats on weekday mornings until the channel's shutdown on August 31, 2017, as the Canadian-based production helped the network both meet Canadian content guidelines and the bare requirements of the technology remit required by their Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission operating agreement.The How-To Channel in Australia chose not to air the remaining episodes  citing a lack of viewers, which is necessary to sustain airing the final episodes.