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Returning: The Amazing Race

And remember, the last team to arrive may be eliminated.

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Good news, racers. Seven will fasttrack the newest season of The Amazing Race, which launched this week in the US.

It premieres 8:30pm Thursday October 16th.

Kicking off from LA this is the 13th season of the show, and a repeated winner of the Emmy’s “reality” category.

You can read more on the pitstops of the series here and the competitors here.

The return of Race means that Heroes will sit in the 9:30pm timeslot following its 2 hour premiere next week. Prison Break remains at 10:30pm.

That just leaves Knight Rider still to be slated…

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  1. I don’t care about whether airing a show within a week or within a month constitutes as “fastracking” – I’m just glad that The Amazing Race is back on.

    It was always (one of the) the best reality show(s), a deserved winner of all its Emmys.

  2. “This show gets shown within a couple of weeks of US telecast and that’s not fast tracked?” – Nope, I would consider a week maximum as fast tracked. And I never said Seven should play it at 8am – only that Singapore did.

    “The clues and challenges each week are right out of a game show, except they are done in different locations around the world.” – The first few seasons were better, although the last couple of seasons have improved on this aspect a bit.

    “It is people like you who that make the networks shift all the good shows past 10:30 or not show it at all!” – Ummm … how?

  4. Love the promo for this.

    Goes to places where –

    They do not speak american !!!

    I would really like to see the rules that producers impose on teams .
    would love it be be tougher – can’t yell at locals, can’t speed, can’t say ‘go faster’

  5. Ooh Me Plums! wrote
    Good, but still a poor effort. Channel 5 in Singapore air The Amazing Race SIMULCAST with the US, on 8am Monday, then repeated at 11pm.

    Why can’t Seven (or preferably FOXTEL) show it within a week?

    I’ll keep downloading thanks, since watching stuff on free to air is painful compared to FOXTEL iQ2.

    It is people like you who that make the networks shift all the good shows past 10:30 or not show it at all!

  7. Well this show is not going to last. The past couple of series have been bumped all over the schedules. Viewers are tired of the concept, firstly it is not a genuine race and secondly it is not ‘reality’, it is simply a game show, contrived to look exciting.

    In a real race someone would be 1 or 2 countries ahead, but that is too hard and expensive for a production crew to film, so each week ” the flights” are used to slow teams down. The clues and challenges each week are right out of a game show, except they are done in different locations around the world.

    I actually like this show despite its obvious faults, as the yankee characters help to make it. The trouble is, we all suspect and know that ch7 will probably bump it around, so there is very little point getting ‘into it’

  8. Not sure a network advertising a show or sending out a press release constitutes a “promise”

    I think networks reserve the right to change schedules once they have the hindsight of having seen a few episodes of a show and seen US ratings.

    Knight Rider has been ripped apart by critics and tanked with viewers. Don’t think you’ll see it in primetime before summer.

  9. JM/Plums Are you people serious? This show gets shown within a couple of weeks of US telecast and that’s not fast tracked? here’s a thought, people who download will download no matter what happens – I don’t understand why you even comment on Network scheduling as it doesn’t affect you? Yes – simulcasting at 8am in the morning would make real business sense for a TV Network. Not.

  11. I guess Seven decides to bring forward TAR13 because 1. the premiere episode of Knight Rider rated poorly in the US and 2. (as Ooh Me Plums! has pointed out) the series is shown in Singapore hot off the satellite, and shown throughout Asia on cable channel AXN in the same week as the US. AXN also produces the Asian version of TAR.
    Nevertheless it is good news for Australian fans of TAR.

  12. At last TAR returns the timeslot which saw it finally break out back in Seven’s dark days of 2004!

    It may have helped Seven’s share to put it on at 9.30 (at least for a while) – but it’s simply not a 9.30pm show and it always felt wasted there. Especially when the ratings began sliding during the last couple of seasons.

    Personally I’ve always believed it should have gone up against Getaway at 7.30 (and some of its highest ever Aussie ratings came in that slot during special early airings). But 8.30 is a good thing, and I’m delighted it’s coming back that quickly.

  13. Good, but still a poor effort. Channel 5 in Singapore air The Amazing Race SIMULCAST with the US, on 8am Monday, then repeated at 11pm.

    Why can’t Seven (or preferably FOXTEL) show it within a week?

    I’ll keep downloading thanks, since watching stuff on free to air is painful compared to FOXTEL iQ2.

  14. wow that’s a ball out of left field, i was expecting knight rider too, this one didn’t even come to mind. maybe they’ll scrap one of the criminal minds repeats for knight rider- although the two don’t really fit together.

  15. I wouldnt really call it fast track tho……….. sure compared to a few years ago thats great…… but 2 and a half weeks behind these days is not wat i call fast

  16. Forget Knight Rider, lol. Or put it on another night. Saturdays? There’s nothing on then. But it wouldn’t rate well. I can’t see it going anywhere else anytime soon…

    But YAY! for Seven’s new Thursday line-up. Love it. So glad to have both Amazing Race, and Heroes back.

  22. Wonder how long before the ratings slide and it gets pushed back to a later timeslot like season 12 did earlier this year? *sigh* Episode one has already screened in the US, so it’s not that fast tracked.

  24. Fantastic!! Good to see it get fastracked and even better to see it on a night currently so very very devoid of anything even remotely watchable.

    Awesome photo of Phil, by the way.

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