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TAR Aus Media **may contain spoilers**
ovalorange:
According to this, the premiere on Monday night is a 90 minute episode :yess:
--- Quote ---The Amazing Race Australia begins Monday 16 May at 8.30pm with a ninety-minute premiere on Seven
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BayBay:
--- Quote from: Coutzy on April 24, 2011, 10:43:22 AM ---http://www.adnews.com.au/news/sponsors-line-up-for-amazing-race
--- Quote ---Sponsors line up for Amazing Race
21 Apr 2011
By David Blight
EXCLUSIVE: Seven Network has bagged a raft of big name brands to sponsor the network's new prime time reality TV series, The Amazing Race.
The line up of sponsors includes Canon, National Australia Bank, Honda, Vodafone and Gloria Jean’s, which have all signed multi-million dollar deals.
The inaugural Australian series will provide sponsors with brand integration across offline and online content, in addition to targeted advertising spots around the show.
Some of the sponsors will also incorporate their association with the series into their marketing activities.
Seven Network network director of sales Kurt Burnette, said: “This is one of those properties that immediately popped with agencies and clients, much more than many other properties. It’s a familiar format, which has a great deal of potential.”
Aside from the five confirmed sponsors, Seven confirmed it is also in talks with two other undisclosed sponsors.
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Possible leg prizes???
Canon- Camera's (Kodak EasyShare, anyone?)
Gloria Jean's- Coffee place, kinda like starbucks
Honda- Cars, motorbikes maybe
NAB- National Australia Bank- Money in the form of a prepaid credit card?
Vodafone- Phones, perhaps.
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Canon - yeah cameras, SLRS, photocopiers, camcorders?
Gloria Jeans - years worth of coffee?
Honda - yeah cars and motorbikes
NAB - prepaid VISA card? cash?
Vodafone - free 24 month contract, phone, mobile broadband?
WTH why isnt TAR on the TV guide (:;) (:;) (:;) (:;) (:;)
Coutzy:
As per a media pack today in The Herald Sun, "Brother and Sister (Liberty and Ryot) have a tough start, not helped by a mortified Liberty vomiting in probably her first scene on TV. Siblings to Aussie comedian Rebel Wilson."
Searching for the article online now.
Coutzy:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/tv/bowler-loves-race-riot/story-e6freqj6-1226053770010
Same version that appeared in The Herald Sun, some minor differences. Couldn't get the part with the Liberty quote though
--- Quote ---Bowler loves Race riot
Alice Coster
From: National Features
May 11, 2011 8:36AM
I KNEW we were in trouble when one of the contestants asked how to get a bus from Kuta Beach, Bali, to Vietnam. And it only got worse.
I always thought Australians were intrepid travellers - street-smart, savvy, considerate and great in an emergency - but I was in for a shock.
When it comes to being on The Amazing Race Australia, all rules and etiquette are thrown out the window.
This is a heavyweight TV production, with Channel 7 teaming with Australian production company Active TV, Race alumni and creators of Amazing Race Asia. After four years of planning, the Amazing Race Australia was born. Contestants travel across four continents, 12 countries and 23 cities in 29 days, chasing the $250,000 first prize.
The sheer size of the task was the lure for Aussie actor turned Hollywood hotshot Grant Bowler to be host.
"I was pretty doubtful at first," Bowler says. "I wanted to make sure we weren't doing the cheap, end-of-the-world backyard version of what had already been done.
"But the route, the production ... it has all been phenomenal."
Following the production was no easy task. I found myself panting and sweating as I staggered around seemingly endless airport terminals.
My own internal race was ensuring I did not become the annoying journo holding up the production team.
I was to race only the first legs of the competition, but by day two I had lost track of what city I was in. Changing clothes seemed unnecessary. I was running on adrenalin.
With 10 years of Races under his belt, Active TV founder and president Michael McKay said creating the series in Australia was like a "call of duty".
"I always thought Australians could travel really well and set up the route accordingly, but that turned to rubbish," McKay says.
"That is a myth we may explode in this series."
Contestants trudge from airport to harbour to cidomo cart stop-off. The only real difference between them and me is that they are finding clues and I - often aimlessly - try to keep up with the pack.
The pace is unimaginable and everyone becomes wide-eyed and ratty ... and that's just the production crew.
The contestants take chaos to another level.
This is quickly discovered in Indonesia, when all flights are grounded because of volcanic ash. Or counting money under the blazing sun in the Gili Islands. Or ploughing a rice paddy in Vietnam. Think the Griswald family on steroids.
McKay is the leader of the pack of contestants, camera and production crew. "I'm the school principal," he says.
"Trying to go undercover with a low profile is a bit hard with a tonne of equipment and probably 100 people snaking around the terminal."
But he and Bowler say it's the action-packed nature of the Australian version that will set it apart from the US original.
"If you want to do an Australian version then you want them to get their hands dirty, get them ankle deep in poo," Bowler says.
The Amazing Race Australia, Channel 7, Monday, 8.30pm
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georgiapeach:
--- Quote ---"I always thought Australians could travel really well and set up the route accordingly, but that turned to rubbish,'' McKay says.
Contestants wearing wintery smiles trudge from airport to harbour to cart stop-off. The only real difference between them and me is that they are finding clues and I - often aimlessly - try to keep up with the pack.
The pace is unimaginable and everyone becomes wide-eyed and ratty - and that's just the production crew.
The contestants take chaos to another level.
This is quickly discovered in Indonesia, when all flights are grounded because of volcanic ash. Or counting money under the blazing sun in the Gili Islands. Or ploughing a rice paddy in Vietnam. Think the Griswald family on steroids.
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Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/meet-the-first-ever-contestants-on-the-amazing-race-australia/story-e6frfmyi-1226053139695#ixzz1M2pQukH1
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