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Modèle:Infobox Television The Amazing Race is an American multiple Primetime Emmy Award-winning reality game show in which teams of two or four race around the world against other teams, with the first-place team winning $1,000,000. As the original version of the Amazing Race franchise, the CBS program has been on-air since 2001 and its most recently aired season is the show's twelfth season. Created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, they, along with Jonathan Littman, serve as the show's executive producers. The show is produced by Earthview Inc. (headed by Doganieri and van Munster), Bruckheimer Television for CBS Paramount Television and ABC Studios (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company). The series is hosted by veteran New Zealand television personality, Phil Keoghan.
The series has been awarded a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program every year since the category was created in 2003. Although it has moved around various prime time time slots, the program has averaged of ten million viewers per season.<ref>You must specify title = and url = when using {{cite web}}.
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Format
The present form of The Amazing Race, for the most part, has not changed from the first season. The race utilizes progressive elimination: the last team to arrive at a designated checkpoint (Pit Stop) leaves the game. The race starts in a US city. Teams must then follow clues and instructions and make their way to checkpoints in places around the world, eventually racing back to the finish line in the US. Along the way they perform tasks that represent the culture of the present country or city. Tasks include Detours (an option between two tasks of various difficulty) and Roadblocks (a task that can be done by only one member of a team); additionally, other optional markers, if reached first, can provide a team with a Fast Forward (allowing a team to skip remaining tasks and go to the checkpoint) or a Yield (the ability to delay another team for a short amount of time). Teams race with limited possessions and are given a fixed amount of money for all travel purposes save for airline tickets, which are paid for by production-issued credit cards.
Production
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Pre-race
Production will scope out several locations for the race and will send people to investigate potential tasks and activities to be performed in the tasks. Production also must work with the local governments to acquire filming rights and allowances for the race. Most of the tasks are attempted by production to determine the difficulty and timing with each task as well as to determine how to shoot that task.
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A few days before the race, teams and last minute replacements are flown into the same city (usually not the same as the actual start city) and sequestered in a hotel. Teams are asked to prepare their bags for the race, and production verifies the contents, removing any items prohibited by the race. On the day before or the day of the race, teams are then flown to the actual starting city and to the start line.
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During the race
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Similarly, the camera crew will often ask teams to redo certain actions during a leg in order to get a better camera angle (such as getting into and out of taxis), or to adjust the wireless microphones that each team member is wearing. These events can lead to "production difficulties", which are usually credited to the team when they reach the Pit Stop.
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If a team should engage with a non-Race participant, they will need to have the camera crew get the consent of that person to be used on camera via agreement forms. Footage of people that have not consented is either not used, or is used with the person's face pixelized out.
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The finish line is usually located in an isolated spot, and planned so that teams will arrive mid-day during a weekday, or early on a Saturday or Sunday, in order to reduce the amount of potential sightings of the final teams.
Post-race
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Complete tasks have been known to be cut from an episode, usually due to the lack of impact on race standings for that task. Roadblocks are most commonly edited out should teams depart in the same order as they arrive, though evidence for these Roadblocks can be found from footage still shown, interviews with racers, or from spoiler information. For example, teams arriving in Mauritius for a kayaking Roadblock in Season 10 were recorded by vacationers and posted to the Internet shortly afterwards, but the entire Roadblock was removed from the episode that aired. In another case, in the first leg in Poland in Season 11, Joe and Bill confirmed that a Roadblock involving rowing across a pond to the Pit Stop was edited out. An ostrich egg-eating Roadblock was edited from the first episode in Season 1 but included as part of the extras in the DVD release. In order to keep continuity with clues, editors will combine sound bites from multiple clue-readings to mask the missing task.
The opening credits for the first season used a combination of pictures of locations in the race and teams, both posing as well as performing tasks during the race. However, many fans were able to identify the elimination order simply based on these task shots. Since then, the introduction sequence has used only a combination of location shots from both the current race as well as past races, and only teams posing at their residence or home city, reducing the amount of spoiler content within the introduction.
In two instances of the race, a natural disaster occurred in an area after the race was filmed going through it, but prior to the first episode of the season airing; specifically the 2004 tsunami which struck Sri Lanka during Season 6, and Hurricane Katrina which struck New Orleans during Season 8. In the latter case, one of the teams racing, the Schroeder family, lost their home in the disaster. In both cases, the episodes which included race legs within these areas were preceded by a message, read by Phil, which addressed the situation and expressed solidarity with the people in the affected regions.
Countries and locales visited
As of the twelfth season, the Amazing Race has visited 66 countries.
| Continent | Countries |
|---|---|
| North America | Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, United States (including Alaska, Guam, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) |
| South America | Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay |
| Europe | Austria, Croatia, Finland, France (including Corsica), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy (including Sicily), Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom (including England and Scotland) |
| Africa | Botswana, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Tunisia, Zambia |
| Asia | People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), India, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia (including Sabah), Mongolia, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan (Republic of China), Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam |
| Oceania | Australia, New Zealand |
Note: The table does not include airport stopovers such as Bahrain, Czech Republic, Denmark, and Qatar. It only contains countries that fielded actual route markers, challenges or finish mats.
Public reception
Television viewership
Modèle:Contradict Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of The Amazing Race on CBS.
Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps.
| Season | Timeslot ET/PT | Season Premiere | Season Finale | TV Season | Rank | Average Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Wednesday 9:00PM | September 5, 2001 | December 13, 2001 | 2001-2002
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| 2nd | March 11, 2002 | May 15, 2002 | #49<ref name="usatoday02">.</ref> | 10.3<ref name="usatoday02">.</ref> | ||
| 3rd | October 2, 2002 | December 18, 2002 | 2002-2003
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| 4th | Thursday 8:00PM | May 29, 2003 | August 21, 2003 | N/A<ref name="summer">Because this edition of The Amazing Race aired during the summer (and outside of the typical television season, which runs September to May), it was not ranked in either the television season preceding it or succeeding it.</ref>
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| 5th | Tuesday 10:00PM | July 6, 2004 | September 21, 2004 | 2003-2004 | N/A<ref name="summer"> </ref>
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| 6th | Tuesday 9:00PM | November 16, 2004 | February 8, 2005 | 2004-2005
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| 7th | March 1, 2005 | May 10, 2005 | #25<ref name="0405 ratings">.</ref> | 13.05<ref name="0405 ratings">.</ref> | ||
| 8th (Family Edition) | September 27, 2005 | December 13, 2005 | 2005-2006
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| 9th | Tuesday 9:00PM<ref>The two-hour premiere was the only episode to air Tuesday at 9:00 PM.</ref> Tuesday 10:00PM<ref name="csi miami">Episodes aired Tuesdays at 10:00 PM until April 6, 2006, when the show was moved to Wednesdays at 8:00PM to make room for CSI: Miami.</ref> Wednesday 8:00PM<ref name="csi miami">.</ref> | February 28, 2006 | May 17, 2006 | #56<ref name="0506 ratings">.</ref> | 9.1<ref name="0506 ratings">.</ref> | |
| 10th | Sunday 8:00PM | September 17, 2006 | December 10, 2006 | 2006-2007
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| 11th (All-Stars) | February 18, 2007 | May 6, 2007 | #44<ref name="0607 ratings">.</ref> | 10.1<ref name="0607 ratings">.</ref> | ||
| 12th | November 4, 2007 | January 20, 2008 | 2007-2008 |
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The Amazing Race is notable in that it is one of the few reality shows to grow substantially more popular in subsequent seasons. Even with extensive critical praise, the show faced low Nielsen Ratings for the first several seasons, facing cancellation a number of times. Reportedly, it was saved by calls to CBS President Les Moonves from celebrity fans including Sarah Jessica Parker. Thanks to word-of-mouth and the Emmy wins, popularity of The Amazing Race surged in 2005, making it one of the most-watched reality shows on the air. A Family Edition that aired later that year was not received warmly by viewers, and by the end of the 2005-2006 television season, ratings had dropped by nearly 50% from the previous year. Despite this slight setback, the show has managed to maintain a steady ratings plateau, and is one of the longest-running reality series in the United States, among which only Survivor, The Real World, and Road Rules have aired more seasons.
Starting with the tenth season, which moved the show to Sunday nights, The Amazing Race has seen further increases in its numbers. It is believed that part of this increase is due to "sports overruns" (football, basketball, or golf) that result from games played earlier on Sunday pushing the airtime for The Amazing Race back by some amount on the East Coast along with other CBS programming.<ref>Modèle:Cite web tv.yahoo.com/the-amazing-race-12/show/41743/news/urn:newsml:tv.eonline.com:20071024:5af64613 a4d9412a af29 ce74ffcd3b17 ER//www.variety.com/article/VR1117977397.html?categoryid=14&cs=1</ref>
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Awards
The Amazing Race has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program each year since the creation of the award in 2003 against other, more popular reality TV shows such as Survivor and American Idol that have also been nominated each year. The show has also been nominated and won several times for technical production ("Creative Arts") Emmy awards, for Cinematography and Picture Editing for Non-Fiction programs, whereas it has only been nominated for Sound Mixing and Sound Editing for Non-Fiction programs. The show has been nominated in the same five categories for three years consecutively, a trend which continued with the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards.
| Summary of Emmy Nominations and Wins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Type | Category | Result | Record |
| 2003 | Primetime | Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | Won | 1 for 1 |
| 2004 | Primetime | Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | Won | 2 for 2 |
| Creative Arts Primetime | Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Could Never Have Been Prepared For What I'm Looking At Right Now" | Nominated | 0 for 1 | |
| Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Could Never Have Been Prepared For What I'm Looking At Right Now" | 0 for 1 | |||
| Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Could Never Have Been Prepared For What I'm Looking At Right Now" | 0 for 1 | |||
| 2005 | Primetime | Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | Won | 3 for 3 |
| Creative Arts Primetime | Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "We're Moving Up the Food Chain" | Won | 1 for 2 | |
| Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "We're Moving Up the Food Chain" | Nominated | 0 for 2 | ||
| Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "We're Moving Up the Food Chain" | 0 for 2 | |||
| Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "We're Moving Up the Food Chain" | 0 for 1 | |||
| 2006 | Primetime | Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | Won | 4 for 4 |
| Creative Arts Primetime | Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "Here Comes The Bedouin!" | Won | 2 for 3 | |
| Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "Here Comes The Bedouin!" | 1 for 3 | |||
| Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "Here Comes The Bedouin!" | Nominated | 0 for 3 | ||
| Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "Here Comes The Bedouin!" | 0 for 2 | |||
| 2007 | Primetime | Outstanding Reality-Competition Program | Won | 5 for 5 |
| Creative Arts Primetime | Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing!" | Won | 3 for 4 | |
| Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing!" | 2 for 4 | |||
| Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing!" | Nominated | 0 for 4 | ||
| Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) for the episode "I Know Phil, Little Ol' Gorgeous Thing!" | 0 for 3 | |||
| Total (as of 2007) | 10 wins, 20 nominations | |||
The production staff of The Amazing Race has been nominated each year since 2004 for the Producers Guild of America's Golden Laurel award for Television Producer of a Non-Fiction Program, and won this award in 2005.
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Other
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- The Amazing Race has also inspired popular culture, with notable references to it in such shows as Robot Chicken<ref> "Atta Toy".
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Criticisms
Despite The Amazing Race's popularity, the show is not without its share of criticism and controversy. Main problems include:
- Bunching, where teams are constantly grouped together due to bottlenecks such as chartered flights and pre-planned hours of operation of businesses (such as in Season 6).
- The stunt casting of teams where producers have tended to cast models, actors and, more recently, past reality show stars.
- Clues becoming less cryptic in later seasons; e.g., directing teams to a specific location as opposed to giving them a clue or picture that they must decipher in order to find their next destination.
- The design of challenges, especially those requiring eating large volumes of food or that require "needle in a haystack" searching.
- The introduction of the Yield, and the reduction in the number of Fast Forwards available. It should be noted, however, that during some races, a Fast Forward which is not taken by any team is usually edited out of the program altogether, giving the appearance of there being fewer than there actually are.
- Over-reliance of teams on local assistance and Ferns<ref>Local people who volunteer, or are otherwise convinced, to go along with teams have been coined by fans as Ferns, based on the name of one of the first people to volunteer to help navigate a team (Oswald & Danny, Season 2) while they completed the tasks in that leg.</ref> instead of relying on self-navigation.
- The nature of the last leg of the race, where luck becomes more important than racing skill.
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- The amount of spoiler information generated during some seasons, such as Season 7 and Season 11 (All-Stars).
Foreign versions
In October 2005, CBS optioned The Amazing Race for franchising to other countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment's AXN bought the rights to air and produce regional versions of The Amazing Race for Asia and Central Europe. The Amazing Race Asia began airing its second season on November 22, 2007 and The Amazing Race Central Europe has been cancelled. The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária, the Brazilian version, the first season was premiered October 13, 2007 and ended on January 5, 2008.
References
External links
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<tr><th style="white-space:nowrap;background:#ddddff;text-align:right;">The Amazing Race (US)</th><td colspan="1" style="text-align:left;width:100%;font-size:95%;">Personnel: Phil Keoghan ·Bertram van Munster ·Elise DoganieriSeasons: 1 ·2 ·3 ·4 ·5 ·6 ·7 ·Family Edition ·9 ·10 ·All-Stars ·12 ·13
Contestants by season:1 ·5 ·6 ·10 ·11</td></tr><tr><th style="white-space:nowrap;background:#ddddff;text-align:right;">The Amazing Race Asia</th><td colspan="1" style="text-align:left;width:100%;font-size:95%;background:#f7f7f7;">Personnel: Allan Wu
Seasons: 1 ·2 ·3</td></tr><tr><th style="white-space:nowrap;background:#ddddff;text-align:right;">Other versions</th><td colspan="1" style="text-align:left;width:100%;font-size:95%;">The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária</td></tr>
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