In mid-2008, RuPaul began producing "RuPaul's Drag Race", a reality television game show which began airing in February 2009. The premise of the program has several drag queens compete to be selected by RuPaul and a panel of judges as "America's next drag superstar". It inspired the similar spin-off shows "RuPaul's Drag U" and "", as well as the international franchise editions "Drag Race Thailand", "The Switch Drag Race" (Chile), "RuPaul's Drag Race UK", "Canada's Drag Race", "Drag Race Holland", "Drag Race España" and "RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under".