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"Amazing" New Teams, New Night
by Gina Serpe
Jul 17, 2006, 6:35 AM PT
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The Race is on...a little bit earlier.
CBS has unveiled the identities of the 12 teams that will compete in the globe-trotting 10th edition of The Amazing Race and vie for the $1 million grand prize.
The network also said the three-time Emmy-winning reality contest, which will go for its fourth consecutive statuette Aug. 27 after locking up another nomination earlier this month, will move to a new night and earlier time slot this fall, a tactic designed to underscore its family-friendly content. The show will air Sundays at 8 p.m., as opposed to Tuesdays at 9.
The new roster of competitors will represent the show's most diverse yet. Joining the college cheerleaders, male models and Miss USA pageant contestants, will be Asian-American brothers, a married Indian-American couple, Islamic best friends, a gay couple and a female Iron Man triathlon winner with a prosthetic leg. Also among the 12 two-person teams, one set of competitors from last season.
"I really believe we've never really had such a broad spectrum of people," host Phil Keoghan said at the Television Critics Association Saturday. "We've, I think, always had a diverse cast, but this particular cast is the whole gamut. It's really exciting to see them all at the starting line."
The season kicks off in a familiar locale, with the teams beginning their journey in Seattle's Gas Works Park, the same spot the third season ended in 2002.
From there, they take off on a 28-day journey, logging an estimated 40,000 miles over four continents.
"Normally we go--we're eastbound," producer Bertram Van Munster said. "This time we went westbound."
Van Munster said the production didn't waste their time "easing" the competitors into the journey with stopovers in Europe or South America or slightly more familiar locations.
"We picked some of the countries that are really hard to produce in," he said, adding that more than one "hardcore communist county" made the itinerary.
China, Mongolia, North Vietnam, Madagascar and Kuwait were among the 13 countries visited, though Van Munster insists the contestants, not the scenery, will make the show must watch.
"It's meltdown city on this whole trip," he said.
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joe6606:
--- Quote ---Also among the 12 two-person teams, one set of competitors from last season.
--- End quote ---
Is this a typo or is there a surprise 13th team?
puddin:
welcome joe6606 :yaya: !!
I wrote to Amy Rolph of the Seattle news and haven't recieved a reply yet ( how dare they ignore me :angel: )
puddin:
The Amazing Race" producers on Seattle: 'Teams must now get the hell outta here.' With minor spoilers...
A number of people probably saw contestants and crew for "The Amazing Race" running around Seattle on Memorial Day weekend, but thanks to Amy Rolph's great story, now you know who the 12 teams are.
What you may not know is why "Amazing Race" executive producer Bertram van Munster decided to return to Seattle to start the race. (The third raced ended in the Emerald City in 2002.)
Talking to reporters a few days ago, van Munster said he wanted to go West this time instead of flying East, as teams have done in the past.
After the panel, I asked him why. "If you go West, they have some assumptions of what they're going to do," he told me. "They assume, oh, we're probably going to Europe...They end up trying to figure out what the challenges could be and we have always thrown them for a curve. They have never figured out what countries they're going to or what they're going to do."
When mapping out the sequence of destinations, van Munster said, "I just look at the logic of airplanes and where we need to go and will it take them in that direction," he said. "I picked Seattle because I wanted to fly westbound, and Seattle has flights into China. So that had a lot to do with it.
"Seattle is great," he added. "First of all, it's very open city, which makes it easy to work, and it's a little city."
Which would make it easy for teams to get around, right? Sure. If producers intended them to stay.
One of the first challenges will be at the typical Seattle traveler's least favorite places: SeaTac International Airport.
"The airport is so overcrowded in Seattle because of 9/11. You've gotta go through this zig-zag routine of ropes, which I find interesting," van Munster said. "Because all of a sudden, you're five ropes ahead of me. It's nerve-wracking to stand in these lines as it is -- nobody wants to stand in these lines -- but if you're in a race!" He shook his head. "I hope that one of these days they can clear that up."
Keoghan, meanwhile, skipped the compliments and went straight to the logic. "The city that we choose for the start city is the stepping point for going somewhere else. We want to get them on a plane, and we want to get them traveling as fast as possible.
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Seattlepi.com
puddin:
Talk about typos :umn:
Fourth 'Amazing Race' set to begin
Jul. 17, 2006 at 9:32PM
When the fourth season of the hit TV show "The Amazing Race" officially begins in Seattle next month, it will feature its most diverse contestant pool yet.
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