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Amazing Race Israel Spoilers/Sightings
Mrs Shrek:
Two more sydney sightings:
--- Quote ---It looks like next season the contestants on the Amazing Race will be going to Sydney.
They were filming in the Sydney Hilton on George St., right down town setting up as I was leaving. There is a clue box in the lobby and and then a number board near the elevators (lifts) where the contestants need to grab a number as they caught the far elevator. The board only had 5 numbers on it, so by the time they get there there must be only 5 teams left.
Yesterday there was a crew here that had shirts on about "climbing face first down the side of a building" not sure if they are related.
Lots of staff in the lobby keeping eye on the clue box, flags, etc. and keeping the last elevator locked up for use by the show.
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--- Quote ---So I am not sure if any of you watch the amazing race in Israel..
MOtsei shabbos we were walking around Sydney harbour, and we saw these people racing (looked like the tv show amazing race). My dh happened to hear them speaking in hebrew, so I said wow!! It's the Israeli version. So I tried to explain to him the show. Of course immediately he jumps to speak hebrew with them and gives a couple directions. LOL I can imagine the caption, "jewish man on street gives directions in sydney."
So we kept on walking, and my cute husband decides he wants to be on tv again.. so we walk back in the general direction.. This time I grab him to stop him, cause u know enough is enough.. This time they approached my husband and started speaking to him in english. Of course my dh shows off his hebrew again..lol he's so cute
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zacz:
Just read this about a possible Australian version of the amazing race. The Amazing race Israel is mentioned quite alot in the article.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24450552-7582,00.html
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THE key obstacles to global format sales of US reality show The Amazing Race have been the sheer cost and logistics of sending a dozen couples to perform a series of strange tasks in 10 or more countries within a month and to film it.
But the Seven Network is understood to be reconsidering an Australian version after local production company activeTV filmed three Asian-based series on much less than the multi-million-dollar budget needed for the US version.
A Seven source said an Australian version was "on our development slate", but no deals were imminent, activeTV managing director Michael McKay said.
The 12th season of the US series averaged 830,000 viewers this year.
ActiveTV, which produces the Asian series through a Singapore joint venture with the US program's co-creator Bertram van Munster, is about to begin producing a new Israeli format, much of which will be filmed in Asia.
The company, which employs 18 people in its Melbourne head office and about 12 in Asia, has morphed from a sports and entertainment company into a reality specialist after producing the Australian legs of the US Race in series two and four.
The new version, to be filmed in Hebrew, will be the first non-English international series.
It will be called Ha'Merotz La'Million (The Race to the Million), referring to the prize of a million shekels that will go to the last couple standing.
McKay will say only that the series will launch "soon" with between 10 and 12 teams and an unnamed Israeli director.
"It's like the Greta Garbo of TV shows because so much of it is secret," McKay said.
"Even the crews don't know where they're going and they don't know where they're starting from."
Producing a series of The Amazing Race sounds almost as nightmarish as competing in it.
Potential locations are selected and scouted in about 40 days, and a string of local production teams are contracted to organise their legs of the race.
Senior production staff test most challenges, but McKay draws the line at bungee jumping.
"In the Asian version when we had the contestants eating bugs, we tried them," he said.
"There were crickets, cockroaches, a scorpion or two and a water bug: they were a bit chewy. We want to make sure that it's safe."
The most important element is selecting the teams, whoch are often couples but may be friends or family members.
Contrary to perceptions that the show chooses teams whose relationships will implode spectacularly under race conditions in front of the cameras, McKay looked for diversity and depth.
"The main ingredient is good chemistry," he said.
"You want light and shade and sweetness. Teams spit the dummy and walk out, or you'll see teams that become remarkably close.
"I love it when that happens but there are times when that pressure cooker situation highlights the things that you're not that keen on in your partner. Those emotions are very real."
Each team travels with a personal crew of two or three, charged with capturing such outbursts.
"We typically travel with a total crew of 100 as we move," McKay said.
"We pick up a lot of people on the ground. As the teams get eliminated, the crew becomes smaller." McKay said costs would be contained in the Israeli version by choosing "pre-existing" challenges, rather than building them.
There will be a few other differences.
Some countries, such as those that don't recognise Israeli passports, will be off-limits, and McKay is expecting cultural differences to play a big part.
"I'm expecting more open, honest, blunt and frank conversations between the teams," McKay said.
"I don't think they'll hold back in that respect."
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Slowhatch:
Thanks, zacz. Some explanation:
* A million New Shekels=a quarter-million US Dollars (give or take)
* Spit the Dummy=throw a tantrum
* Here is a list of countries that won't recognize Israel. I faced the same problem--in a smaller way--on my last trip to the area; the tour operator made sure Israel was the last country visited in the region.
* Strictly speaking, A Corrida Milionaria was non-English speaking and international, spending the last couple legs in Chile.
Anthonyctf:
I thought there will have someone to copy it to here
However nobody copy it :ascared.........so I help to copy it
This is a spoliers of Macau :yess:
Copy from Enter My World JonLover
Since a co-poster happened to see Amazing Israel in Macau, I think we have to separate their spoilers.
Michael McKay is also the executive producer so he's only re-using the locations he had for Amazing Race Asia.
Here are the photos posted by FLICKERS
--- Quote ---I was in Macau last week, when I saw an Amazing RAce clue with dragons
neatly arranged at the Senado Square in Macau. Its Hebrew , and
apparantly Amazing Race Israel. I waited to see the real racers to the
extent of almost missing my flight, lol.The production team arrived
there 2 hours before the first team arrived. They arrived by taxi,the
cameraman and the one bringing the microphone (i dunno how you call
him)I reckon has a tough job running there and here, it was
intense.They dont allow taking pictures about the cameraman and the
contestant, but i have zoom lens, lol...The clue was in BRIGHT yellow
and black, dang it was REAL,lol.
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the baldy man carrying the microphone, he has a tough job running there and here, with those microphone attached to a pole.
the dragon clues
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More Spolier of this Leg form HKDiscuz :tup:
http://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=7929326&page=24
#358
skf123 said that he saw the teams race in Macau in 2 destination
1.He saw teams raced in Koi Kei Bakery (Macau has a lot of Koi Kei Bakery He said it is in Rua Felcidade 70-72, R/C, Macau )
They were eating Almond Cookie
http://www.koikei.com/introduction-e.htm
2.he saw teams racing in Venetian Hotel
There is a check point and they were getting clue there
http://www.venetianmacao.com/en
Neobie:
It's TARAS' fit-the-dragon-head-on-the-dragon-boat! Shall I guess Nam Van Lake? :lol:
Lazy producers.
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