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TARAUSfan:
Teams revealed in the daily telegraph.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/stellar-cast-promises-plenty-of-tension-between-rival-teams-and-ratings-gold-for-the-amazing-race/story-fni0cvc9-1226978858876?nk=95eefd200ee7f40dc7dd2b67367bc9f7
ovalorange:
--- Quote from: TARAUSfan on July 05, 2014, 05:03:36 PM ---Teams revealed in the daily telegraph.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/stellar-cast-promises-plenty-of-tension-between-rival-teams-and-ratings-gold-for-the-amazing-race/story-fni0cvc9-1226978858876?nk=95eefd200ee7f40dc7dd2b67367bc9f7
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Stellar cast promises plenty of tension between rival teams and ratings gold for The Amazing Race
THERE’S already plenty of tension between the trans-Tasman rival teams from New Zealand and Australia, but it’s the clever casting of Seven’s returning reality series The Amazing Race that should make it a solid ratings starter for the network this month.
Among the contestants who began their global trek from Uluru earlier this year are Kiwi foster parents Cat and Jesse, who will be known to NZ audiences as a final four singer from the 2005 season of the country’s Idol series, and Perth body builders Sally and Tyson, who has been nicknamed the Incredible Hulk by other competitors.
For the first couple the new reality challenge is their third grab at 15-minutes of TV fame after they became drawn into a pregnancy drama when Jesse first entered the New Zealand Idol series in 2002.
While the quirky pair had reportedly made producers aware of the looming birth of their first daughter, Carmel, prior to the start of the contest, it played out more sensationally on screen when Jesse was “forced” to pull out at round 16 stage to support his wife.
Two years later, he was approached to audition again with the competition airing as Cat was carrying their next child, Joel.
Promising there were no plans to add to the clan during their latest overseas adventure, jester Jesse said the lure of reality TV was too great for these fans, joking that the “break between TV appearances was too great so we had to find something, and I can’t cook”.
Meanwhile, looks could prove deceiving for fitness fanatics from WA with Sally, a veterinarian, almost falling at the first hurdle, collapsing at a pre-production boot camp.
Devoted to the blood-type diet, the world champion bikini body builder fainted after her finely tuned metabolism went into mini-meltdown.
Apparently pushing herself to breaking point is a common occurrence for Sally.
“People at my gym know that’s how much I push myself, so that’s normal,” she said.
And if his partner does fade in a critical moment in the race, Tyson plans to carry on with Sally over his shoulder.
NZ Team L-R: Cat and Jesse, Carla and Hereni, John and Murray, Emily and Jono. Front: Aston and Christie. AUS Team L-R: Inga and Tiharna, Elizabeth and Todd, Sally and Tyson, Daniel and Ryan. Front: Ashleigh and Jarrod
The cast for Seven’s 2014 series of The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand. L-R: Elizabeth and Todd, Sally and Tyson, Ashleigh and Jarrod, Tiharna and Inga, Daniel and Ryan.
ovalorange:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11288345
Kiwis pumped for Aussie 'Race' win
Ten New Zealanders are racing Australians around the world in a bid to win $250,000 and reality TV stardom.
The Amazing Race pits five New Zealand teams of two head-to-head with their Australian counterparts through six continents and 10 countries, across almost 90,000km.
It is the first time the popular reality TV show has pitted two countries against each other.
The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand will be hosted by Outrageous Fortune star Grant Bowler and will air on TV2 later this month.
The Kiwi teams include Tauranga friends Hereni Fulton and Carla Beazley, Christchurch siblings Emily and Jono Trenberth, friends John Gbenda-Charles and Murray Roeske, and friends Christie Orr and Aston Garratt.
Hamilton couple Jesse and Cat O'Brien decided to enter because they were big fans of the show.
Team NZ, of the Amazing Race persuasion, is competing in the first bi-country challenge. Team NZ, of the Amazing Race persuasion, is competing in the first bi-country challenge.
Ten New Zealanders are racing Australians around the world in a bid to win $250,000 and reality TV stardom.
The Amazing Race pits five New Zealand teams of two head-to-head with their Australian counterparts through six continents and 10 countries, across almost 90,000km.
It is the first time the popular reality TV show has pitted two countries against each other.
The Amazing Race Australia v New Zealand will be hosted by Outrageous Fortune star Grant Bowler and will air on TV2 later this month.
The Kiwi teams include Tauranga friends Hereni Fulton and Carla Beazley, Christchurch siblings Emily and Jono Trenberth, friends John Gbenda-Charles and Murray Roeske, and friends Christie Orr and Aston Garratt.
Hamilton couple Jesse and Cat O'Brien decided to enter because they were big fans of the show.
"We've always sat there with our kids going, 'Man, how cool would that be? We could totally do that'," Jesse said.
"When we saw the ad on TV asking for contestants, we thought we'd better back up our words."
It's not the first time the 36-year-old has been in the spotlight.
He has twice been a contestant on NZ Idol, coming in fourth spot in 2005 after withdrawing from the 2003 competition to be at the birth of his daughter.
"I love TV," he admitted. "I love watching it and I do quite like the attention."
Cat needed a little more persuading.
"I had to put the TV part behind me and think about all the amazing opportunities - the travel, getting to meet new people, getting to travel with no kids, that's always fun," she said.
Jesse said he was "extremely loud and love(s) to be the centre of attention", whereas Cat described herself as "more behind-the-scenes".
"We work great as a couple," she said. "We're pretty much chalk and cheese so I knew early on that people would probably want to see that on TV."
The New Zealanders can join forces to take down the Aussies but only one couple can claim the $250,000.
For each leg, the last team to finish faces the prospect of elimination. The team that finishes the final leg first wins the competition.
ovalorange:
Looks like the first episode has been screened to the media, this is from TV Tonight
http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2014/07/the-amazing-race-australia-v-nz.html
The Amazing Race: Australia v NZ
It’s been two years since The Amazing Race Australia has hit our screens.
After winning an International Emmy Award for its very first season, the show had a second which was subjected to scheduling interruptions and then disappeared from view. Instead we copped a failed return by The Mole.
Now it’s back but with changes behind the scenes. It’s no longer produced by activeTV, but produced internally by Seven. While the network has enjoyed extraordinary success with its own Reality brands, this was likely a change driven by a desire to trim costs.
But we also have an Australia v NZ format this time.
“Watch out ‘Straya we’re coming to get ya!” says one NZ team.
“Have you seen any kangaroos yet?” asks another.
The network trumpets this as an historic first having countries pitted against one another. I’m inclined to think there are good reasons why that’s never happened. US host Phil Keoghan always said the problem with having an internationally-cast TAR would be obvious if a US team were eliminated early. Here there are 5 teams from each country chasing a $250,000 prize, so the likelihood of Aussies all being booted from weeks 1 -5 is pretty remote.
We begin in front of Uluru with a tug of war -literally- between Aussies v Kiwis.
“Just relax Australia. I got this one for youse,” says a towering personal trainer named Tyson.
“Australia is going deeewn,” sneers a Kiwi.
I keep waiting for a Maori haka, but we’ve been spared.
Yet the other subtle change that has crept in is the influence of shows like My Kitchen Rules. There are MKR-style cutaways where teams narrate to camera about how hopeless their competitors are. That’s despite them only having ‘met’ 5 minutes ago. While these have featured before, it feels like there are more of them, with added-emphasis on imposed rivalry, rather than letting it naturally occur through the drama of competition.
Thankfully, it still retains the sweeping helicopter shots, strapping host Grant Bowler and TAR‘s trademark music, licensed from the US.
Seven has always been excellent at casting such formats (so many shows are actually inspired by TAR‘s themed teams it’s not funny).
Amongst the teams are “feisty” NZ fitness mums (remember, women are always “feisty”, never men), a “brainy, busty brunettes” pair of pagaent models, some groomed intensive carers (sexual identity undeclared), a mother and son, two fair-haired siblings who finish each other’s sentences with a suggestive bond that would be illegal in most states, Team Raspberry & Coke (NZ males) plus newlyweds who adhere to traditional gender roles. “I try to do a lot of the woman’s work, like the ironing and cleaning,” says Ash. “Jarrod does the man’s work.” Whoa.
The first leg involves a Virgin flight from Alice Springs to Christchurch (here come the cost cuts). Several Kiwis seem rapt to be going back home. I’m wishing they headed to a foreign-language country so we can see them all as bad tourists -this is part of the intrinsic charm of Amazing Race. I guess it will come, as international destinations are guaranteed.
As the race progresses, so too does the bitchy competitiveness.
“He’s blocking you. Bastard!” yells the mum to one team in a taxi.
The episode constantly underlines nation rivalry.
“Those bloody Kiwis. It’s almost worth buying a bloody map,” growls one frustrated Aussie.
Along the Christchurch route there are references to the earthquakes that killed over 180 New Zealanders. I’m pleased there are still cultural references, another important element to the storytelling.
The Roadblock and Detour work quite well and there are scenic shots of South Island locations for armchair travellers. As the race progresses, there are of course two teams in a last-minute dash to the first “putt stop.”
Grant Bowler is effortless as host, clearly a fan of the format.
But the first episode is also too long, unable to resist a meal-sized 60 minutes.
With no MKR around in the second half of the year, it’s hard not to presume that Seven is keen for another series that has colourful characters who pop beyond the show. Can’t blame them for wanting that, but it probably doesn’t get you an International Emmy.
The Amazing Race: Australia v New Zealand will premiere later this month on Seven.
ovalorange:
From TV2's Facebook:
Announcement: Australia have delayed the launch of The Amazing Race which delays us too. TV Guide has already gone to print (sorry guys) but they've got a sweet interview with the host Grant Bowler. The Amazing Race. Still coming soon to Tuesdays TV2
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