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The Amazing, undisclosed, Race

For the first time, The Amazing Race has revealed the countries that comprise its forthcoming season. Is Australia on the map?

The 13th season of The Amazing Race has revealed for the first time the 11 stops on its next series.

For the forthcoming season, contestants include an ex-NFL player and his estranged wife, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and her actor brother, recent divorcees, ageing hippies, a pair of Southern belles and frat brothers.

The race starts in L.A. and finishes in Portland, Oregon. It will visit Brazil, Bolivia, Cambodia, India, Kazakhstan (thanks Borat), Russia and the US. The race will also visit New Zealand, homeland of host Phil Keoghan. The show has visited Australia for three of its twelve series.

Though some of the show’s viewers may tune in for scheming, confrontations and meltdowns between racers rather than for scenery, “I think more and more are addicted travellers,” says Keoghan.

“The least popular show was the family version,” which confined its destinations to North America, he said. You got that right, Phil! We love to watch bad American tourists in foreign countries.

“New faces and new places make for amazing races, but places are at the core of what we’re all about.”

Last week the series again won an Emmy as the Most Outstanding Reality-Competition Program -it has nabbed that trophy every year since the category was added.

No word if Seven intends to fasttrack the new season.

Source: USA Today

21 Responses

  1. Yes I too hope it gets fast tracked. Its one of the few “reality” shows with contestants that I like! If it doesn’t though, no worries. I will still watch it whenever it airs.

  2. # Kuttsywood on September 28th, 2008 11:07 am

    If Seven don’t fasttrack, the Bittorrent network will 🙂

    Love it!

    Gotta Love That

    Love the Show and Bit torrent is the only way 1 more sleep 🙂

  3. Woo Hoo!
    The Amazing Race is edge-of-the-seat, heart-stopping stuff.
    You can’t win by moaning and scheming, you have to think hard and work hard. You need a few lucky breaks too.
    Personally? I wouldn’t last half an hour as a contestant. I’m a terrible traveller. In New Zealand recently it was up to me to navigate. Who would have thought their tiny cities were so hard to get around? All those one-way streets!
    Fail!
    In Wellington I directed us into a bus-only street. My husband turned to me and said with a grin ‘that just cost us the race’.

  4. I know this isnt to do with Amazing Race but it is to do with Reailty and upcoming series.
    On the new season of Survivor (Gabon) at the end of the episode there is a “In Memory Of” for one of the crew “Alton Desiree”. It appears he died while working on the Show. Search on Google you will find the story.
    But along with this tragic news it is also reveals the location of either the next series or an upcoming season which is Brazil (the location of his death)

  5. Dear Channel 7,
    Please fasttrack the new season of the Most Outstanding Reality-Competition Program, The Amazing Race. We’d like to see it before the next season this time.
    TAR.

  6. Fantastic comment there

    “You got that right, Phil! We love to watch bad American tourists in foreign countries.”

    I just love the way the Americans have little or NO idea about other countries and their arrogant way of intimidating, belittling locals.

    Amazing Race is one of my favourites and it must take ages to check out countries, stunts, tasks etc…

    The choice of Phil Keoghan is perfect.

    Now we need seven to step up to mark and out it on at 7.30 PM

  7. I would love to see The Amazing Race 13 at the same time as the US, but Seven may feel that showing three races in a calendar year (TAR10 and TAR12 screened earlier this year) may be too much. Also, TAR13 is scheduled to finish in December, well into the non-ratings season for Australia.

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