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DISCUSSION of TAR 33 SUSPENSION DUE TO COVID (may contain location spoilers)
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: Avid on March 20, 2020, 01:44:17 AM ---Celebrity race across the world postponed too ..a week ago.... I think if all the dust settles.. Tar33 ep 3 will be the most watched episode in CBS reality TV history... https://deadline.com/2020/03/celebrity-race-across-the-world-postponed-bbc-studio-lambert-1202878379/
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As much as I want, I doubt it. TAR17 raised the viewership bar to another level.
OMGitsGARRET:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xxcLBU6ak
No one has posted this yet, but interesting interview with a production member of The Amazing Race season 33 on the shutdown/coronavirus. The TAR talk is mostly in the first five minutes of the video.
HIGHLIGHTS:
-He believes he may have contracted the coronavirus whilst out filming TAR33.
-Confirmed: 3 episodes had been finished filming
-Filming concluded in Glasgow, Scotland. The cast and crew were sequestered there for several days before finally flying back home to the United States.
-The route was NOT fully determined/set in stone by the time filming had started. There were multiple countries and routes possible.
-The next few legs were supposed to take place "somewhere cold in Northern Europe," somewhere in "Northern Italy" and "South America."
-The ENTIRETY of Asia was set to be skipped. No Asian countries were in contention for the season.
-CBS cancelled the season after the outbreak in Italy got worse, as there was a leg set to take place there.
RachelLeVega:
--- Quote from: OMGitsGARRET on March 25, 2020, 11:59:57 PM ---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xxcLBU6ak
No one has posted this yet, but interesting interview with a production member of The Amazing Race season 33 on the shutdown/coronavirus. The TAR talk is mostly in the first five minutes of the video.
HIGHLIGHTS:
-He believes he may have contracted the coronavirus whilst out filming TAR33.
-Confirmed: 3 episodes had been finished filming
-Filming concluded in Glasgow, Scotland. The cast and crew were sequestered there for several days before finally flying back home to the United States.
-The route was NOT fully determined/set in stone by the time filming had started. There were multiple countries and routes possible.
-The next few legs were supposed to take place "somewhere cold in Northern Europe," somewhere in "Northern Italy" and "South America."
-The ENTIRETY of Asia was set to be skipped. No Asian countries were in contention for the season.
-CBS cancelled the season after the outbreak in Italy got worse, as there was a leg set to take place there.
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I listened to the audio while working from my apartment and, wow, this is some immense insight. WRP made the perfect call to bail before the virus escalated into not being able to leave the country and before the rest of the crew and racers may have caught it. I feel for Ryan the DP dealing with the climate of the situation and how it affected his relationships and provisional lifestyle. I'm still curious what the route would have looked like if none of this was happening- whether we would have gotten an hourglass-shaped navigation or a deformed parallelogram.
I wonder if we're going to hear from more personnel or even the racers that were part of this lost season now that we know we probably and will likely not be getting show-quality footage from this attempt.
georgiapeach:
It all depends. I think the original hope was to be able to go out again this fall and resume filming.
Sadly day by day that seems less likely.
theschnauzers:
The thing is that in the original epicenter, Chinw and especially Wuhan, the peak has clearly passed, 4 months in. But China is retaining its border control as to those returning to China to prevent reintroduction os COVID19, while lifting restraints especially in. Wuhan. Meanwhile Japan isreporting a spike in new cases, and is introducing measures often being used elsewhere.
I read these in longer articles post at CNN.com, and that’s a good place to monitor.
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