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Pékin Express 2012
defbox:
Hi Plaidmoon, i like your pots, there are always instructives. I think there is two possibilities for Ludovic and Samuel, there are blocked by the flood-ravaged and have to circumvent the flooding zone or the course was changed by the pekin Express production because of the flood-ravaged and they going now to Bourke and the national park before to go back to Sydney... what do you think about that?
Yepah:
A MURWILLUMBAH woman had some surprise house guests on Saturday when the French version of the Amazing Race reality television show hit the town.
The Peking Express features various couples who face the challenge of hitchhiking around foreign countries with just one Euro per day to spend.
Leanne Hutcheson was visiting her son at work at the Murwillumbah KFC where contestants Frederic and Jessica had managed to convince someone to buy them a meal.
She said she was blown away when her son nudged her, pointing to the camera man in the store.
"Would you believe it?" Ms Hutcheson said.
"They explained to me that they only had one Euro no matter what country they were in, which is nothing in Australia, and that they needed to find somewhere for the night or they were on the street.
"So I invited them home.
"Go figure!
"In your wildest dreams would you ever think you'd be hosting a couple from the Amazing Race?"
She said Saturday was the contestants' first day in Australia.
"They were asking us to see a kangaroo. It was so funny the closest thing we had was my sons carpet snake," Ms Hutcheson said.
"They were just so lovely to talk to."
Ms Hutcheson's sister drove the couple to Nimbin the following day.
The Northern Star reported contestants had made their way through Byron Bay and Casino this week and were headed on to Tenterfield, Tamworth and Lightning Ridge.
This season of the show is a form of finale featuring the favourite contestants from previous seasons of the show.
ovalorange:
I don't think we have this one... 4 teams left when they hit Noosa??
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/02/06/noosa-reality-check-peking-express/
Flamant:
Posting ovalorange's article :
Noosa reality check
Peter Gardiner | 6th February 2012
TAKE a bunch of crazy French reality TV types, add a Chinese connection, plus a watching audience of four million people in Europe, and you get the Peking Express.
This Franco-centric cable hit television series - a spin-off from a Chinese series that challenges couples to race one another, much like The Amazing Race - made a station stop at Noosa Main Beach on Saturday.
And this express had all the bells and whistles that go with filming a naked desire to win mixed with wanderlust.
One of the features of the television shoot - apart from Noosa's intoxicating beach beauty - was the star power of Noosa Longboards' woody van.
According to Peter Cullen, of Noosa Longboards, it was the woody that caught the eye of the Peking Express producers and convinced them to do a Noosa shoot.
Peter said he was not sure at first what to make of these French people asking him in broken English to join their planned adventure.
As it turned out, the shop is not only providing the woody and some boards for the competing teams to have a crack at the Laguna Bay surf, but also providing a large part of the challenge.
"After they film the boards in the surf, the teams all have to hitchhike to Sydney with the longboards under their arms, so it should be quite interesting," Peter said.
"The woody first attracted their attention and although they usually don't allow advertising (as in product placement) in the show, they love the van so much they are going to feature it.
"It means Noosa Longboards is going to be screened into the homes of four million viewers - I'm not sure if Noosa has ever been shown to an audience as large as that, all watching at the same time."
The show is beamed out to M6 TV and is hosted by one of France's most popular television personalities Stephane Rotenberg.
The blurb for the Peking Express says: "The show demonstrates how various couples deal with challenges and pitfalls of a long-distance hitchhike in a strange city".
And Peter, before the crew and contestants' arrival Saturday morning, was thinking of making their road to Sydney that extra-challenging by offering them all plank-size longboards.
"But I think we'll go with the mini-mals."
Yepah:
Show comes to Ridge
09 Feb, 2012 12:53 PM
Lightning Ridge was busy this week with more than 60 members and challengers of the production the Amazing Race, French version “Pekin Express”, TV program.
The theme of the show is to demonstrate how various couples deal with the challenges and pitfalls of attempting a long-distance hitchhike to a strange city, together with all the difficulties presented by trying to communicate in a language they don’t understand.
Tension was added by including couples who had broken up “in real life”, but were willing to work together for the sake of winning the race.
Before arriving at the Ridge, the competitors were to hitchhike from Coonamble.
The group spent Tuesday and Wednesday filming at the Bore Baths, Walk in Mine, and the old church at the Four Mile before moving onto Bourke.
In somewhat similar fashion to The Amazing Race, couples that come in last at various checkpoints along the way are eliminated.
Link : http://www.theridgenews.com.au/news/local/news/entertainment/show-comes-to-ridge/2449902.aspx
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