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China Rush 2010: Show Discussion --Note finale change to Oct 30!!!
Jobby:
--- Quote ---After four whole seasons of practice, Allan Wu is still over-dramatic and contrived
--- End quote ---
Sigh.
slayton:
For the sake of accuracy, Allan filmed TARA4 after TARCR, so he had three seasons of practice before filming TARCR.
georgiapeach:
Buying the rights — and the show bibles — is key, said Li Yi, the executive at SMG’s International Channel Shanghai (ICS) in charge of “The Amazing Race: China Rush”.
“Buy the copyright and learn the essence from that. That’s very important,” Li said.
SMG approached Disney, which owns the rights to “The Amazing Race”, last year about producing an English-language China-based franchise for the one-year countdown to this year’s World Expo, Li said.
When it became clear Disney needed longer to negotiate terms, ICS told Disney it would produce a similar 2009 programme, “Shanghai Rush”, as they worked towards a deal for this year.
The two sides eventually worked out a deal and the Disney-licensed version that debuted in August drew an audience three times as big as “Shanghai Rush”, Li said.
Li declined to discuss terms but called it “very reasonable”, with Disney holding the rights to sell the ICS show outside China. Disney saw it as part of a long-term China investment, he added.
The deal brought in Disney’s expert advice on travel planning, adjusting games to contestants’ strengths and maximising suspense, he said.
“One thing was very impressive: they gave the very huge amount of manpower required. That’s very important, so we could see a very big difference between the West and China’s TV industry,” Li said.
The result was ICS’s most expensive programme yet, but also one of its most profitable, as it used the foreign brand name to even attract overseas advertisers.
http://www.asiaweeks.net/20101124/486/china-broadcasters-strike-gold-with-foreign-formats.html
eragon:
From Allan Wu's FB
I just found out that plans for The Amazing Race China Rush 2 are well underway. And here's something you might all be interested in...
This Second Season will be OPEN to essentially anyone who resides on this planet we know as Earth! (However, I think you will still need to be a certain age to apply. Sorry.)
More details to come so w...atch out for it! :-)
Caelestor:
Some things to improve on for CR2:
Don't do 3 NELs in a row. That just got annoying.
No problem with destinations, just don't reuse any one of the ones in CR1.
Don't go overboard with the tasks (true for TARA and TARLA as well), there's just too little time in a hour to fit everything in.
Don't put equalizers in the middle of the leg like at Mt. Taian.
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