Well as much as I know you like to be a negative Nancy, I'll say that CBS gave TAR14 the green light since the eligibility guidelines call for filming between August and October. In any case, we'll have to wait and see.
http://alpha.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race12/application/eligibility.pdf
I don't agree.I know you don't and I get that, but I like MM because he personally responded to my blog. BVM and Elise have yet to do that. :jumpy: :jumpy:
Fantastic sunny! Thanks for posting! :yess: :jumpy:
5 Continents!!
I wanted to come by and give y'all and thumbs up on getting so much confirmation out of BVM in that interview at EW.com.Thank you theschnauzers, it was so exciting to see some of our sleuthing come to life in black and white.
The timing of the interview is a bit odd; which makes me suspect that TAR 14 will probably be filming around the time CBS gears up for promotion for the new season (early September), which would be in line with the timing in the TAR 14 applications.
I wanted to come by and give y'all and thumbs up on getting so much confirmation out of BVM in that interview at EW.com.
The timing of the interview is a bit odd; which makes me suspect that TAR 14 will probably be filming around the time CBS gears up for promotion for the new season (early September), which would be in line with the timing in the TAR 14 applications.
Fantastic sunny! Thanks for posting! :yess: :jumpy:
5 Continents!!
Five Continents? We can't account for Australia nor Antarctica; so does that mean the race went through Africa :duno: along with North America, South America, Asia and Europe. Don't count Oceania as it is not a continent.
I wanted to come by and give y'all and thumbs up on getting so much confirmation out of BVM in that interview at EW.com.
The timing of the interview is a bit odd; which makes me suspect that TAR 14 will probably be filming around the time CBS gears up for promotion for the new season (early September), which would be in line with the timing in the TAR 14 applications.
CBS' Amazing Race: Still Not In HD
The show's producer says it's not a priority.
By Swanni
Washington, D.C. (August 19, 2008) -- CBS' The Amazing Race will begin its 13th season next month, but it will still not be produced in High-Definition.
That's according to an article by the Associated Press.
Amazing Race fans were hopeful that the network would begin airing the reality/adventure show in high-def this year after announcing earlier this year that Survivor would be in HD this fall.
However, Amazing Race executive producer Bertram van Munster tells the AP that CBS still hasn't decided on whether to shoot the program in HD.
With the program's season debut just six weeks away (September 28), it seems safe to say that this season will not be in high-def. (The season has already been filmed; van Munster is now scouting venues for a 14th season.)
"I don't think it's a priority," van Munster said of the network's stance towards switching the program to HD.
This season will start at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and follow contestants over 23 days as they travel to Brazil, Russia, India and Bolivia.
Phil's Commentary:
Amazing. Just amazing.
No, The Amazing Race is not amazing. What's amazing is that the show producer says airing the show in high-def is not a priority. This is 2008 and more than 30 million homes now have high-def sets -- and you're telling me that the network and/or the show's producer doesn't think it's important for the program to be in HD?
Disrespecting 30 million high-def owners is not very smart, although it is amazing.
Let's see how amazing their Nielsen ratings are when the season is over.
Buddy TV has just issued an analysis of why teams win the Amazing Race and which teams they predict will win AR13, which is Andrew and Dan or Terrence and Sarah. Here is a link to Who Will Win AR13 Buddy Tv Article (http://www.buddytv.com/articles/the-amazing-race/the-amazing-race-13-predicting-22297.aspx?cf=1048576)hmmm... they might lose their house if they put their money where their mouth is! this is what they say:
If history is to repeat itself, and the trends listed above keep true, here are the teams from this season we can remove from contention and why:Do we know if Terence and Sarah even make it to Portland?
Marisa and Brooke - All-Female
Toni and Dallas - Multi-Generational
Nick and Starr – Siblings
Anita and Arthur – Over 50 Years Old
Kelly and Christy – All-Female
Ken and Tina – Over 50
Given the history of The Amazing Race, here's how one would have to rank the favorites:
5) Mark and Bill
3) Aja and Ty
3) Anthony and Stephanie
2) Andrew and Dan
1) Terence and Sarah
Go to Vegas and bet the rent on Terence and Sarah. It's a good investment.
CBS has also leased the roofs of three large warehouses just outside the Los Angeles airport and has painted promotions for “The Amazing Race” on them, easily visible to landing planes.
so has any1 seen these?QuoteCBS has also leased the roofs of three large warehouses just outside the Los Angeles airport and has painted promotions for “The Amazing Race” on them, easily visible to landing planes.
The Eye is also slapping promo messages on thousands of eco-friendly, biodegradable hangers that have been handed out to dry cleaners in New York and Los Angeles.
Created by a company called Hanger Network, the EcoHangers are made of recycled paper and plastic bottle caps, reshaped into hangers with room for marketing messages on the front and back. According to Hanger Network CEO Bob Kantor, the CBS hangers alone will replace more than 17 tons of steel-based wire hangers -- which usually end up in U.S. landfills.
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No I'm not exactly in the city Chateau, lol. More like almost and hour out, NYC is closer to me than Philly :)
It makes me glad to see that CBS is going out of it's way to promote Amazing Race this season. I feel like TAR12 had no promotion at all.
Exclusive: 'The Amazing Race' producer talks about upcoming season
After twelve seasons, The Amazing Race viewers grown used to seeing the show's contestants participate in some unusual tasks as they race around the world. However, according to co-creator and executive producer Bertram van Munster, the show will be kicking the danger level up a notch during this fall's thirteenth edition.
"[This season] you will see a tricky one where you will wonder 'How in the world did they have the guts to do this?' You are really going to wonder," van Munster told Reality TV World in an exclusive interview last week.
"I look[ed] at it and I [went] 'Oh what was I thinking? Oh my god, this could go very wrong.' And then it does."
But despite the unexpected task drama, The Amazing Race's thirteenth season -- which filmed this past summer and will premiere this Sunday at 8PM ET/PT on CBS -- will still feature the same structure and elements the show has become known for, according to van Munster.
"I think it’s an unbelievable trek around the globe," he told Reality TV World. "We have a fun cast [and] we had a great time with them. They performed splendidly, they were exhausted, they were furious with each other, they loved each other, they were ready to give up. You name it, all of the emotions you can possible imagine on [a show] like this."
Unlike CBS' other long-running Big Brother and Survivor reality series, which have regularly used new twists over the years, The Amazing Race's thirteenth season stuck to a format very similar to the show's previous editions -- a move van Munster said was a deliberate decision to adhere the six-time Emmy-winning show's original concept.
"The more you start messing with an original concept, usually it doesn't get much better. It doesn't really improve," he said.
Instead, van Munster said he placed additional emphasis on designing intriguing task challenges for the new season.
"What I've done [for this season is] I've come up with so many insane challenges that it should do the trick and I think it will be plenty exciting for an audience to watch it," he told Reality TV World.
Rather than moving away from the show's original concept, The Amazing Race 13 will actually attempt to return closer to it and feature "clues" -- which despite their name, have devolved into more basic instructions over the years -- that are more complex and closer to those used in the show's initial editions.
"I think that you'll definitely see it... we really try to go back to the old ways so the audience doesn't feel like we're 'FedEx-ing' people around the world," van Munster told Reality TV World.
"We are very diligent and I am extremely aggressive about it that the show stays really truly original and distinct to the original core as possible."
In addition, the season also happened to play out as one of the few The Amazing Race editions in which one of the competing teams failed to make it to the course's finish line -- an unexpected development that was welcomed by van Munster.
"I like it when people don't make it to the finish line," he said.
Non-elimination Pit Stops will also return as part of The Amazing Race's thirteenth season, according to van Munster, who said he was unsure why fellow executive producer Jonathan Littman had incorrectly told reporters -- and van Munster had then subsequently confirmed -- the stops had been eliminated from last fall's twelfth edition.
"That was our mistake," van Munster, who admits to not being a fan of the non-elimination Pit Stops, said of the confusion. "We probably all had jet lag, but there's always a non-elimination in there."
Last season's new Speed Bump tasks -- the show's latest version of a penalty for the team that arrives last at a non-elimination Pit Stop -- will return for The Amazing Race's thirteenth season, according to the producer.
Viewers will also see a broader range of equipment brought by the contestants this season, including a decision by "Best Friends" Mark Yturralde and Bill Hahler to run the race using extra small backpacks.
"We had people showing up with 80-pound backpacks and we had people showing up with almost nothing," van Munster said. "It's their choice. This is a true reality show. You show up with whatever you have and then we turn you loose and you have to figure out how to do it. We don't sit there and guide [contestants] and manipulate it and edit it and all of that nonsense. We just turn them loose and off you go."
Van Munster said that while the thirteenth season's course -- which covers approximately 30,000 miles of travel and is similar to the length of last fall's edition -- is shorter than most of the show's previous seasons, it features many "really original" locations and will not seem short to viewers.
"If you look at where we're going it's unbelievable," van Munster said. "There are a couple of straight-line-shots that make the mileage a little shorter, but we are going all over the place on this one."
"If you look at it you say 'How can it [only] be 30,000 miles?' ... we have such insane plane rides."
Bolivia, Kazakhstan and Cambodia will be among several of the new countries visited for the first time.
"When I went to Kazakhstan everyone thought I was going to pull a Borat on them," van Munster said with a laugh.
In addition, Cambodia also proved to be difficult due to the country's lack of organized transportation systems.
"The infrastructure consists of mopeds, taxis, and buses -- and lots of them -- so it doesn't make [travel] easy," van Munster explained.
Overall, van Munster said he was extremely pleased with the season's result.
"I'm very proud of it," he said. "It's an insane race once again."
Link: http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-the-amazing-race-producer-talks-about-upcoming-season-7779.php (http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/exclusive-the-amazing-race-producer-talks-about-upcoming-season-7779.php)
thanks to marigold for posting this one
Non-elimination Pit Stops will also return as part of The Amazing Race's thirteenth season, according to van Munster, who said he was unsure why fellow executive producer Jonathan Littman had incorrectly told reporters -- and van Munster had then subsequently confirmed -- the stops had been eliminated from last fall's twelfth edition.
"That was our mistake," van Munster, who admits to not being a fan of the non-elimination Pit Stops, said of the confusion. "We probably all had jet lag, but there's always a non-elimination in there."
"The Amazing Race": The Emmy-winning reality show is not on the fall schedule and will return later. "The countries are very exotic," Littman says. "We're going to a couple of places that I don't even know where they are on the map. I've had to go look them up."--------------------------------------------
As for the teams? Lively.
"This is a tough group," Littman says. "They'll be younger. We still have a good balance."
The show will will do two fewer episdoes and drop the noneliminations to create more excitement.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2007/07/cbs-party-offer.html
Also adding to The Amazing Race 12's excitement level, according to van Munster, is the fact that the show has done away with non-elimination legs, a format change executive producer Jonathan Littman first revealed at the Television Critics Association summer press.
"The audience and ourselves, we're not crazy about non-eliminations," said van Munster. "It's exciting to see people eliminated at the end of every episode."
Non-elimination legs have been part of The Amazing Race since the reality competition series first premiered in Fall 2001, and the show's fifth edition was the first in which teams were penalized for being the last to reach non-elimination Pit Stops. Doing away with non-elimination legs means there will also be no more penalties, an aspect that van Munster said will also make The Amazing Race 12 more fast-paced.
"Penalties just make it murky," he explained. "This is just such a clean-cut concept, it's not about finding more penalties and hurdles for people. That's not what this thing is about. I think the audience and our fans like eliminations from what we understand."
The fact that a team will be eliminated at the end of every The Amazing Race 12 leg will also keep the contestants on their toes.
"For the contestants, the heat's on every step of the way," added van Munster. "Every leg of the way the heat is on because they can be eliminated."
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/the-amazing-race-producer-twelfth-edition-will-be-nail-biter-6023.php
#10 - Anita and Arthur
You have to root for the hippie beekeepers. You just do. However, they are old. And they are hippies, so they won't be overly concerned with moving all that fast. This is an issue, because they are going on a race. They will make it past one elimination leg, but their sluggish movement will do them in eventually. Silver lining: viewers will once again understand why they used to love hippies.
Quote#10 - Anita and Arthur
You have to root for the hippie beekeepers. You just do. However, they are old. And they are hippies, so they won't be overly concerned with moving all that fast. This is an issue, because they are going on a race. They will make it past one elimination leg, but their sluggish movement will do them in eventually. Silver lining: viewers will once again understand why they used to love hippies.
Now I know who's out in Leg 1.
Y'all probably knew it already but I couldn't sort it out.
Meet Phil Keoghan: 'Amazing' host, amazing experiencesWe get to the meet The Man's Dad!!! :jumpy: :jumpy: :jumpy:
By Laura Bly, USA TODAY
An avid traveler with visits to more than 100 countries, The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan has eaten dinner on top of Italy's Stromboli volcano and narrowly escaped an oil tanker while swimming across Turkey's Bosporus strait. As the reality show launches its 13th season Sunday, he shares some other on- and off-air adventures with USA TODAY.
Q: One of your favorite traveling companions has been your dad, John.
A: We made a pact to travel together at least once a year, and so far we've done some extraordinary trips. We did a cross-country driving trip that was probably the best of my life. … we just talked for 10 days straight. And you'll see my dad make an appearance in this season's New Zealand episode, where I was able to help him celebrate his 66th birthday.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-09-25-keoghan-qna_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
With a doctorate in Plant Science, John has worked internationally in the area of environmental agriculture, while Beth has been a school teacher and private piano teacher for over 40 years. Their work has seen them take up residency in Canada, Australia and the Caribbean.
EB: What was the best challenge? The worst one?
BVM: I think we came up with some great ones. No bad ones. I thought it was very funny, the teeter totter in Taiwan (in AR12).
EB: The most heartbreaking one to me was (in AR6) when Lena stood in that field in Sweden for hours and hours, unrolling bales of hay, and she’s crying and her hands are bleeding. And finally Phil just put a stop to it.
BVM: That was one of my proudest moments. I’m driving through Sweden and I see these rolls of hay in a field and I say to myself ‘I’m going to put 350 of these rolls in a big field and stick a clue in some of them.’ I tell you, it was fantastic.
EB: I’ve only ever really liked two teams that won: Chip and Kim and Uchenna and Joyce.
BVM: I have stood there so many times and thought, ‘Who will win this race?’ We have never guessed it right. How’s that for a reality show, we do it and we cannot guess it right. That’s why it is so fascinating.
EB: To this day, my favorite moment was when Freddy (in AR6) threw up in his bowl of soup and then had to continue to eat it. We still talk about that.
BVM (laughing uproariously): We did this in a very, very fine restaurant, the finest restaurant in Budapest. The people were horrified. I had told them it would be a nice advertisement for their restaurant and people are throwing up into their soup. And I wanted the Hungarian music, I wanted that whole atmosphere, like a Danny Kaye movie, very fast paced, blasting in your ear, and you are trying to eat extremely hot soup. It was fantastic.
EB: You’re not a very nice man, are you?
BVM: I’m a lovable guy. I’m a really nice guy.
So anyway, all involved head to Brazil and scurry around (another great thing about this show is how it demonstrates that corporate attorneys have not overrun the cultures of foreign lands - there still exist on the planet ill-advised tourist attractions that look totally fun but even more totally dangerous) until that fatal moment where the host announces: "We interrupt the frenetic, coke-addled pacing to bring the show to an abject crawl in order to present some utterly belabored product placement for an online travel service."
And still: Even that awful moment doesn't sink the show. "The Amazing Race" remains, startlingly enough, pretty amazing.
NBC took the lead at 8 p.m. with "Sunday Night Football," 9.2/14. "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rose to 7.4/11 on ABC. The conclusion of "60 Minutes" and the season premiere of "The Amazing Race" scored a 6.2/10 for CBS.
Yup you can see it right on the CBS homepage.
I guess Anthony and Steph were on Tuesday, I watch it all the time hmmm Tuesday where was I Tuesday,,,?
For the first time ever, the complete route of the race has been released before the season starts. Check it out and follow the teams as they fight for $1 million on CBS, Sundays at 8pm ET.
Those photo's are golden schwarzmoor, the credit and thanks goes to you for the find :jam:QuoteFor the first time ever, the complete route of the race has been released before the season starts. Check it out and follow the teams as they fight for $1 million on CBS, Sundays at 8pm ET.
:lol: Is it because we spoil so much this season? Thanks for the Matt's photo anyway.
More like The Amazing Race detectives in the media :jam:
Amazing Race Spoiler!
We've been talking with the Amazing Race Team 'Christy and Kelly' every Monday to recap the previous Sunday's episode. The girls are so fun but they never tell us anything about how far they got in the competition.
A listener sent us a link to a web forum for the show and apparently its been correct in predicting the past season's winners. - We have no idea if its accurate but it says which team makes it to the end!
SPOILER ALERT
Click Here to see some Amazing Race Spoilers
source (http://967kissfm.com/pages/bobbybones.html?page=3)
Well thank the Lord we have you to steer us in the right direction apskips :wohoo:
Well, I read that.... and don't have a clue! :lol3:I'm a pretty techy person peach but can't figure it out either so don't feel bad. I'll ask Rob to walk me through it then I will walk you through it then you can pass it on and walk someone else through, lol