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Casting for Season 18?
kadilahopper:
As much as I love this show and am truly a devoted fan, it would not surprise me to hear that TAR will not be renewed for season 18. It has lost so much of its appeal because of its select recruiting of teams as well as the increasing number of semi-celebs they are now casting. There is a fakeness about the show now. If they do cast season 18 I hope that they will select teams who have never been in front of a camera. It is so much entertaining watching "virgin" reactions instead of scripted. Watch season 1 and then watch any of the past 5 seasons and you will see my meaning. For all you hopefuls out there. I wish you all good luck.
georgiapeach:
Oh, I am pretty sure there is going to be a TAR 18. :tup:
But I have been hearing lots of "smoke" about some sort of atypical season...former racers?? but perhaps not an AllStars?? :duno:
Which could explain why no new applications have been released.
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Mug Costanza:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 21, 2010, 03:03:26 PM ---
Oh, I am pretty sure there is going to be a TAR 18. :tup:
But I have been hearing lots of "smoke" about some sort of atypical season...former racers?? but perhaps not an AllStars?? :duno:
Which could explain why no new applications have been released.
--- Quote from: K2Review on July 06, 2010, 02:00:02 PM ---It's feeling like it's very late to have not released season 18 applications. Is there a chance that they're not producing a race for airing in Spring 2011?
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Great to hear, peach! I didn't think CBS would give up on the show that's won every Outsanding Reality Competition Show Emmy ever. Even if the show's a bit different than the classic seasons nowadays, it's still consistently in the top 25 weekly ratings. :)
TARdevotee:
--- Quote from: georgiapeach on July 21, 2010, 03:03:26 PM ---
Oh, I am pretty sure there is going to be a TAR 18. :tup:
But I have been hearing lots of "smoke" about some sort of atypical season...former racers?? but perhaps not an AllStars?? :duno:
Which could explain why no new applications have been released.
--- Quote from: K2Review on July 06, 2010, 02:00:02 PM ---It's feeling like it's very late to have not released season 18 applications. Is there a chance that they're not producing a race for airing in Spring 2011?
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Glad to hear that there will be a Season 18! Been thinking of finally applying! But maybe I should start hoping and praying that it's NOT going to have former racers on. Besides, didn't BVM say in an interview somewhere that the Race is best when it's NEW racers? Hopefully this "smoke" clears and it'll feature new racers!
theschnauzers:
Given news reports I saw last night that Jimmy Johnson former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, and the Miami Dolphins has been in Nicaragua filming Survivor, it wouldn't surprise me at all if TAR tried a Celebrity fan edition (i.e., Celebrities who are long time fans of TAR). In recent seasons, we've seen a bunch of such teams cast, and most of them have proven to be good Racers or good foils for good Racers.
In some ways, it's harder to sometimes detect such teams, because people would not necessarily think that X and a friend are Racing if they're seen somewhere else in the world, and a camera crew might now seem to set off the TAR Sixth Sense. Or maybe go the aid noteworthy charities eoute; where teams winning legs earn mooney for their charities and not prizes for themselves.
But I seriously doubt CBS is going to pass up a second edition of TAR in the spring; the network finally has something to pair with TAR on Sunday nights, and unlike Winter 2010, there is no Winter Olympics, the NCAA tournament is changing formats and broadcast patterns for March 2011, the Oscars will air earlier in 2011 than in 2010, so an attention-getting edition of TAR could build an audience in the spring with less disruptions and distractions than TAR 16 had.
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