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Northwood contestant: 'Amazing Race' intense
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
ERIN ALBERTY
THE SAGINAW NEWS
When summer started, Brock Rogers was a typical college senior looking forward to leaving his Shreveport, La., home for Northwood University, where he planned to carry on a family tradition in automotive marketing.
Three months, 13,000 miles and a television series later, Rogers is bracing for national stardom as CBS launches "The Amazing Race, Family Edition," in which his family races nine others around the world for $1 million.
"It's going to be awesome. I can't wait to see it," Rogers said Tuesday.
The first episode airs Tuesday, Sept. 27.
Rogers' contract forbids him from divulging particulars -- where the show traveled, tasks the competitors had to complete, who won, the personal dramas that come with all reality shows.
But he insists the eighth Amazing Race carries more intensity than the previous seasons, when racers competed in pairs rather than family quartets.
"When there's four, it's that much harder," Rogers said. "There are always four opinions, four individuals that ... can conflict."
Rogers can't say what that means for the Rogers team. He names a "low level of patience" as his biggest weakness, one that gets tested next to his gab-happy dad, Dennis.
"It's just crazy," he said.
But when you're in close and constant contact with your parents and sister through the frustrations and victories of a traveling reality show, a new level of unity is inevitable, he said.
Rogers gives his older sister credit for starting the team. Brittney, 23, competed in the 2003 Miss USA pageant and won NBC's "Fear Factor" earlier this year.
"She brought it up, and I said, 'Heck, yeah! I'd do that,"' Rogers said. He had traveled to Mexico once, but never overseas.
Getting the parents on board was a little more difficult, especially when it meant pulling his dad away from his Dodge dealership. But once you're competing for $1 million, he said, the outside world melts away -- along with the fact that it's going to watch you on TV.
"If there's a prize involved, I don't think anybody's worried about how they look," Rogers said. "They're just focused on that prize."
Any conflict that may have taken place on the road stayed there, at least where one other family is concerned. The Schroeder family of New Orleans picked the Rogers' house as their refuge after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home. Now they are building a new house in Shreveport, and the two families are hosting a fund-raiser party for the Red Cross on Sept. 27 -- the night of the premier, Rogers said. v
Erin Alberty is a staff writer for The Saginaw News. You may reach her at 776-9673.
http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-16/1126707600236050.xml&coll=9
puddin:
Posted: Tue., Sep. 13, 2005, 10:00pm PT
Doganieri gets real as co-exec producer
By MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
"The Amazing Race" has handed Elise Doganieri a "fast-forward" pass, promoting her to co-exec producer of the CBS reality skein.
Doganieri created the skein, which has won the top reality series Emmy for two years in a row, with husband Bertram van Munster. Van Munster -- the show's exec producer -- and Doganieri also share co-creator credit.
Doganieri had previously been supervising producer and, before that, producer on the show. "The Amazing Race" is aiming for a third consecutive kudo at this Sunday's Primetime Emmys.
Skein will premiere its eighth season -- a special family edition, with teams consisting of four relatives -- on Sept. 27. Show will hit its 100th episode mark sometime this fall.
" 'Race' has created such a special niche for itself in the genre, and I look forward to creating another 100 shows," Doganieri said.
Besides "Race," Doganieri's credits include serving as a producer on ABC's "Profiles From the Front Line" as well as producer and story editor on the pilot for Paramount's firstrun skein "Wild Things." She worked in advertising before moving into TV.
The reality adventure follows teams traveling around the world, competing on various challenges and following instructions on clues labeled "detour," "road block" and "fast forward." Series, which premiered in 2001, comes from Bruckheimer TV, Earthview, Touchstone TV and Amazing Race Prods.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117929073?categoryid=14&cs=1#loop
Slowhatch:
It probably wasn't too hard for Mike Schneider to get an interview. In addition to his Variety work and his his blog (here http://franklinavenue.blogspot.com/), Mike and WRP seem to go back a ways. Here's his birthday party--
http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/albums/birthdayrace/index_2.html
complete with real TAR flags, real TAR envelopes, and real Phil. Chip and Kim managed to show at his housewarming--
http://halloweenrace.blogspot.com/
gingerman28:
TV Guide continues to ignore nine of the ten family teams. The only team with four color pix this week are the Blacks. Of course, they have the giddy shirts that make them stand out. But does this mean they end up gone soon or later?
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