Archive > TAR Canada

TAR Canada MEDIA

<< < (7/18) > >>

walkingpneumonia:
Noticed Cadbury Caramilk has been added to the list of sponsors at the CTV TAR Canada website - guess I missed the press release (sarcasm).

georgiapeach:
'Amazing Race Canada' Teams: 9 Pairs Of Contestants Ready To Go
HuffPost Canada TV  |  By Chris Jancelewicz
Posted: 07/08/2013 2:06 pm EDT

 .
All nine 'Amazing Race Canada' teams pose with host Jon Montgomery .

A pair of TV personalities, twin sisters, a father and son, a hippie couple, gay cowboys -- these are just five of the nine teams ready to participate on "Amazing Race Canada."

Set to premiere on Monday, July 15, "Amazing Race Canada" is the biggest race in Canadian game show history.

While other iterations of the Race have had 11 or 12 teams, "ARC"s nine teams promise to pack a punch. Among the most notable pairings is the BodyBreak team, featuring Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod, who have been TV fitness instructors for almost all of their adult lives. Easily recognizable, this pair is the early favourite to take home the top prize of $250,000, some free travel, and a pair of Chevy Stingrays.

"With thousands and thousands of applications for 'The Amazing Race Canada,' we had the near-impossible task of picking nine teams to run the race,” said John Brunton, Chairman and CEO Insight Productions. "We had so many top notch groups to choose from we could have filled multiple seasons. Canadians showed us once again why this is the best country in the world, and our cast just magnifies our diversity and spirit."

"Teams will need to bring their A-game in a race for one of the most lucrative prizes in television and largest in Canadian television history," said Phil King, President, CTV Programming and Sports. "With the stakes now raised, we can't wait to see how hard teams will push themselves to cross the finish line first."

Added John Brunton, Chairman and CEO, Insight Productions: "This is all so exciting. The stakes are real, the grand prize is eye-popping, and I fully expect teams to lay it all on the line from the start of the race to the finish line."

Hosted by Canadian Olympic champion Jon Montgomery, "Amazing Race Canada" is shaping up to be the show of the summer.

"Amazing Race Canada" premieres on Monday, July 15 at 9 p.m. ET. on CTV.



http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/07/08/amazing-race-canada-teams_n_3562283.html

walkingpneumonia:
Some of this seems like it could be awesome!
The original press release can be seen here: http://bit.ly/12m6R9f


--- Quote ---CTV Delivers Unprecedented Access to THE AMAZING RACE CANADA
– CTV creates exclusive digital content for all four top-tier sponsors: BlackBerry, Chevrolet Canada, Air Canada, and Interac Association –
– Viewers have the opportunity to win up to $185,000 in prizing –
– Fans can be part of #RaceCDA with an innovative digital series, exclusive video, thrilling gamisodes, an interactive map, and premium contests available on CTV.ca –
Jul · 10 · 13

Bell Media Digital  CTV  The Amazing Race Canada

To tweet this release: http://bit.ly/12m6R9f

TORONTO (July 10, 2013) – With the debut of this summer’s most-anticipated series THE AMAZING RACE CANADA less than a week away, CTV announced today complementary content that gives fans everything they need to participate in the race of a lifetime – including viewer prizing of up to $185,000. The customized activations and original content from BlackBerry, Air Canada, Chevrolet Canada, and Interac Association are available at CTV.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada beginning next Monday, July 15 to coincide with the series’ premiere that night. Features on the site include a digital series with unparalleled behind-the-scenes access, thrilling gamisodes, exclusive video, an interactive map to track the racers, and premium viewer contests.

“THE AMAZING RACE CANADA is the perfect series to collaborate with our partners to create and deliver unique content to CTV.ca that can provide an extended Race experience to Canadians everywhere,” said Mike Cosentino, Senior Vice-President, Programming, CTV Networks. “From an exclusive digital after-show to a unique cheer-to-win contest, these online extensions provide fans the opportunity to further explore our great country and participate in the race of a lifetime.”

INSIDE THE RACE WITH BLACKBERRY is an exclusive digital companion series for THE AMAZING RACE CANADA, hosted by ETALK’s Danielle McGimsie (@MissDMcG) and Teddy Wilson (@TeddyWilson), co-host of INNERSPACE and NEVER EVER DO THIS AT HOME. Starting Tuesday, July 16 at 10 a.m. ET, with new episodes available each week, adventurous fans can go behind the scenes with in-depth, post-race analysis, including exclusive interviews with racers and never-before-seen footage. Top tidbits from across the Twitterverse will be featured on-screen during INSIDE THE RACE WITH BLACKBERRY episodes. Fans will also have a chance to win a weekly prize of a BlackBerry® Z10TM by answering questions related to that week’s episode, as well as a grand prize of $5,000 cash.     

Also on Tuesday, July 16, viewers can join THE AMAZING RACE CANADA host Jon Montgomery (@jrmonty12) for Fast Track Gamisodes from Chevrolet Canada. Filmed on location, the gamisodes allow fans to compete in online versions of the same challenges the teams tackle in the Race to unlock exclusive THE AMAZING RACE CANADA footage. Plus, starting Monday, July 15, ETALK's Danielle McGimsie (@MissDMcG) and TSN's Cabbie Richards (@therealcabbie) go head-to-head in the race-inspired online series FINDING NEW ROADS, presented by Chevrolet Canada. The two-minute episodes feature the hosts competing in nine challenges incorporating the features of selected Chevrolet vehicles.  A new challenge is unlocked for viewers each week.

Each week, as of Monday, July 15, viewers are invited to enter the Air Canada Cheer to Win Contest online by choosing their favourite team. Viewers can earn bonus entries if their team avoids elimination and by correctly answering trivia questions on destinations visited in the show. Featuring the same weekly prizes awarded to the winning team at the pit stop, viewers can enter once a week for the duration of the show. Everyone who enters the weekly contest will be included in a draw for the grand prize, a year of travel for two people in Executive First class to all 175 destinations Air Canada flies to worldwide – just like the winners of THE AMAZING RACE CANADA.

Also starting Monday, July 15, fans can play the INTERAC FlashTM Memory Game sponsored by Interac Association for a chance to win a $5,000 grand prize and daily $200 gift cards from various merchants. Plus, starting the week of Monday, July 22, fans can register online at CTV.ca/TheAmazingRaceCanada to participate in the INTERAC Flash Challenge. This live event allows fans to participate in speed inspired challenges in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver for a chance to win a share of $25,000 in prizing.

 **Media Note** Download artwork for THE AMAZING RACE CANADA at BellMediaPR.ca

Anchoring CTV’s Summer 2013 schedule, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT beginning July 15 on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times). THE AMAZING RACE CANADA will also air TSN on Tuesdays at 12 midnight ET/PT beginning July 16, on RDS2 Wednesdays at 6 p.m. ET beginning July 17, and TSN2 on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT beginning July 17, as well as on demand across CTV’s digital platforms: CTV.ca, the CTV App, and through video on demand partners.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
Twitter:
@CTV_PR
@CTV_Television
@AmazingRaceCDA, #RaceCDA
@BlackBerry, #InsidetheRace
@chevroletcanada
@AirCanada
@Interac

Facebook:
facebook.com/ctv
facebook.com/TheAmazingRaceCanada
facebook.com/BlackBerryNA
facebook.com/chevroletcanada
facebook.com/aircanada
facebook.com/interac
Pinterest:
pinterest.com/CTVTelevision/the-amazing-race-canada/

THE AMAZING RACE CANADA is produced by Insight Productions in association with CTV and with the support of Profiles Television. Executive Producers for Insight Productions are John Brunton and Barbara Bowlby, and Supervising Producer is Mark Lysakowski. Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri are executive producers for Profiles Television. Robin Johnston is the CTV Production Executive. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, Independent Production, Bell Media. Mike Cosentino is Senior Vice-President, Programming, CTV Networks. Phil King is President, CTV Programming and Sports.

About CTV

CTV is Canada's #1 private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV has been Canada’s most-watched television network for the past 12 years in a row. CTV is a division of Bell Media, Canada’s premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio and digital. Bell Media is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company. More information about CTV can be found on the network’s website at CTV.ca.
--- End quote ---

Leafsfan.:
Ruth Myles: Jon Montgomery ready for takeoff on The Amazing Race Canada
For a world-class athlete, Jon Montgomery watches a surprising amount of television.
He and his teammates on Canada’s skeleton-racing team fill their downtime in European hotel rooms binge watching series such as Entourage . . . and The Bachelor.
“If we’ve got two days, there could be a solid 12 hours of television for me,” Montgomery says with a shrug and a smile.
Add in the fact that he won the heart of a nation by celebrating his gold medal win at the Vancouver Olympics by swigging beer out of a pitcher surrounded by his fellow countrymen, and the 34-year-old seems a natural pick to host The Amazing Race Canada.
Slight problem: despite extensive experience being grilled by the media, Montgomery was a novice in the production of TV. Still, the outgoing native of Russell, Man., relished the chance to flex some new muscles when the producers called.

Jon Montgomery, host of The Amazing Race Canada, records dialogue in the Ear Candy studio in Calgary.
Jon Montgomery, host of The Amazing Race Canada, records dialogue in the Ear Candy studio in Calgary.

“I thought it would be some good professional development to go and do an audition,” Montgomery says. “Lo and behold, they did give me the gig. It was a no-brainer. ‘Yes, please. What would you like me to do?’ ”
That should have been: what wouldn’t they like you to do, Jon? Having signed away my first-born child in a $1-million non-disclosure agreement so I could visit a TARC shooting location (or two, or three), I can only tell you that Mr. Montgomery . . . hmm, walks and talks to the cameras, charms the extras involved in challenges, gamely repeats his lines with unwavering energy and enthusiasm, does a little dance and racks up more flying time than Superman on a busy day. Oh, and he also gets to try out those challenges.
“They’re not life-threatening. Nobody should expect to potentially lose their life doing a race on television,” the impossibly fit red-head says with a laugh. “But I tell you what: they are mentally taxing beyond belief. Trying to get your brain wrapped around doing some of these things is terrifying.
“It’s not going to kill them, but it might make them wet themselves.”
For those who haven’t seen the American version of The Amazing Race (Canada is the 12th international instalment), here’s what’s what: teams of two are pitted against each other in a race to the finish. At the start of each leg, the teams are given clues detailing where they are going, and how they have to get there. (More than one racer’s fate has been sealed by taking an improper mode of transport.)
A route marker at their initial destination holds another clue, which might be a detour — which describes two tasks, of which the team must complete one — or a roadblock. Only one team member can attempt the roadblock, and the clues are pretty mysterious, so they don’t know what they’re signing up for. On it goes (with other obstacles such as U-Turns and Yields) until all the teams reach that episode’s final destination: the Pit Stop. The last team to arrive may (key word) be eliminated.
The first team across the finish line on the final leg of the race takes the grand prize: $250,000, a pair of Corvette Stingrays and passes to fly free for a year on Air Canada — in executive class, no less — anywhere the airline flies.

And the nine teams chasing that payoff — flitting and flashing across seven provinces and three territories over the course of 22 days — want it. Like, Stanley Cup-level want it.
“This notion that Canadians are always polite, this will probably put that notion to bed,” executive producer John Brunton says with a laugh. “They are very, very, very competitive group of people and they are desperately trying to win.”

The Amazing Race Canada premieres Monday, July 15 on CTV.
The Amazing Race Canada premieres Monday, July 15 on CTV.

I spoke with the CEO and chair of Insight Productions, which is producing the show for CTV, at one of those undisclosed locations that I’m not allowed to tell you about. Suffice it to say, Brunton was more than impressed with his surroundings and thinks viewers will be, too. Critics who slammed the show for not leaving the confines of Canada are missing the point, Brunton says.
“You can travel all over the world in Canada. Every culture is represented. . . . You can go to different neighbourhoods (in one city) and be immersed in the culture of those countries,” he says. “We were just (somewhere) and there is a whole lot of people that only speak (a language other than English or French). Similarly, we are going (someplace else), and there are entire communities that continue to speak (another language). It’s unbelievable.”
A visit to the U.S.’s The Amazing Race when it was shooting in Scotland provided a glimpse of what was to come for The Amazing Race Canada.
“It was both exhilarating and nerve-wracking at the same time,” Brunton recalls. “They gave us lots of little secrets, but of course, we have to make it our own. . . . We have to put our own Canadian DNA into the program and represent who we are.”
Part of that mix comes courtesy of Montgomery, who had a maple leaf tattoed over his heart long before he represented his country as an Olympian. Instead of whooping it up at Stampede with his fellow Calgarians, he’s hard at work in the basement of Ear Candy, an audio boutique on 10th Avenue S.W. He’s in the studio recording dialogue for the second episode of TARC, while the show’s supervising producer, Mark Lysakowski, looks on.
As he re-reads that classic intro, “This week, on The Amazing Race Canada,” images flash on a large television screen of what went down in the first episode. Again, no spilling the beans, but what I’ve seen looks . . . amazing. (They won’t sue me for that, will they?)
Montgomery says while the Canadian backdrop provides stellar cinematic images — “”The audience will see parts of it that will blow their minds; they don’t think it exists here at home” — it’s the racers who will have viewers coming back for more every week.
“These people were pushed beyond their limits. Plus, there is the human drama of living with someone you know very well during a competition. They are experiencing an adventure, and the types of interaction they have with each other over the course of the show are very father and son like, very married couple like, very sibling like. And you get to watch it all unfold.”

Source:http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2013/07/12/ruth-myles-jon-montgomery-ready-for-takeoff-on-the-amazing-race-canada/

georgiapeach:
.
TV PREVIEW
The Amazing Race Canada
Hosted by Jon Montgomery
Monday at 8 p.m.
CTV
All-Canadian show, all-Canadian host


IT goes without saying that Jon Montgomery is a natural fit for The Amazing Race Canada.
After all, racing is what he does. And he's amazing at it.
If anything, what's surprising about his involvement is that Montgomery -- an Olympic gold medallist in the harrowing, high-speed skeleton event -- is the CTV reality/competition series' host rather than one of its competitors.
"I'm definitely a fan of (the CBS version of) The Amazing Race; I've watched many episodes in the past and could always see myself being on the show as a racer," the celebrated product of Russell says in a telephone interview. "I've always thought that the challenges that test (contestants) along the road are exciting things that I would like to try, and I would welcome the opportunity to do some world travel.
"I never really envisioned myself in (host) Phil Keoghan's role, but you begin to switch gears pretty quickly when opportunities present themselves. It wasn't too hard to move from a racer's mindset to that of a host."
While he actually won't compete in The Amazing Race Canada's various Roadblock, U-Turn and Fast-Forward challenges that face the show's nine two-person teams, Montgomery will expand the host's role by acting as a demonstrator/guinea pig who tries out the often white-knuckle-inducing tests in each episode.
"I think part of the reason they wanted me in this role is because they wanted someone who could take on some of these challenges, do them adequately and explain them," says Montgomery, who took a five-week break from training for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, to handle the Race's hosting duties.
"I certainly enjoyed doing them. I think they were looking for someone like myself in order to differentiate this show's host from what Phil Keoghan does. They didn't want to have just a look-alike stand-in for him; they wanted to have something that's distinctly their own, and I think this show does that."
This isn't Montgomery's first foray into TV adventuring. In 2010, on the heels of his gold-medal triumph on the skeleton run in Whistler, B.C., the Olympian and three fellow athletes (including then-fianc©e Darla Deschamps, whom he married in 2011) embarked on an extreme-sports adventure that was turned into a thrilling Discovery Channel special called Best. Trip. Ever.
This week, Montgomery will further showcase his on-camera skills by dropping in as a guest host on Monday's edition of Canada AM.
He says the fact The Amazing Race Canada's crew and contestants never ventured outside this country should in no way detract from the series' excitement.
"It's pretty funny to hear people use the words 'the confines of Canada,'" he says. "In the three weeks we were gone, we travelled 25,000 kilometres... We're in Canada, probably the most multicultural nation in the world. You want to experience different cultures? You can do that here. A broad cross-section of landscapes? We can do that here. Different major bodies of water? Check mark -- we've got the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
"I think The Amazing Race could be done here within Canada for years and years to come. We didn't need to leave Canada to make an amazing show."

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/TV/running-for-his-life-215350251.html

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page