Amazing Race starts tonight
 

Don't forget it is a two hour episode to start the new race tonight.

Keith

Thank You, Keith. I forgot it was double length.

I'm so excited!Back to the standard format of bickering in exotic locales!

I'll be watching and hoping it will be more interesting than the last race. I'm glad they've gone back to couples rather than the family theme with four people.

They're starting from the amphitheater at Red Rocks, near Denver. I was born in Denver and lived there until I was married many years ago. Will be interesting for me to see parts of the area, many of which I'm sure I won't recognize.

Let the travels begin!

Can't wait it looks like it will be a good one!!!

Woo Hoo !

Colorado? I hope they spend some time there, rather than just heading to the airport and out of the country.

Keith

Keith, that was last season. I'll bet they get them on a plane and out of the US as fast as possible.

Does anyone know where they'll be going? Also, don't u guys think CBS needs to do a better editing job with the show. I feel like the contestants spend way too much time at airports. I want to see locales not airports.

I just read they leave immediately for Sao Paulo.

Ive never seen this show.
What is the premise and when is it on?

Yes, the editing could be better.

The premise is a physical traveling race with tasks and detours etc. The last team to arrive is eliminated USUALLY. (There are traditionally two non-elimination weeks.) And after many weeks of travel and many destinations, the team that arrives first at the final week's destination wins a million $.

The down side of the show is manufactured and/or dysfunctional ire between and within teams. That I don't want to watch. I want to watch the means/ways they get there and the places themselves.

I loved that Peru episode when they were going through those unique S shaped mountain roads that resembled sculpted snakes stretching endlessly before them.

Hope there's lots of that quality, and less of the fear factor food quotient.

Is Phil Keogan still the presenter? He is a kiwi you know. Used to be on kids tv in NZ.

Yes, Phil is still there.

I think the editing is pretty good. It's a race, not a travelogue. You know the competitors are there for much longer than the few minutes we actually see. It's supposed to give you a better understanding of why they get pretty cranky sometimes.

I teach on tues nights. (sniffle) And I don't have TIVO. I guess I'll have to be all '80s and like, put it on a videotape.

what time and channel?

CBS at 8PM

8PM Central


JJ5 I watch it for the same reasons you do, but that wouldn't bring them a large enough audience (or a young enough one) to stay on the air.

The people not getting along is what brings a big enough audience that we get to see the show.

Keith

Hey great---it's back!
My daughter (15) is begging me to do this race with her. But the thought of spending so much time at airports is just a total downer for me. I'd just want to spend two weeks in the first international destination that we hit.

It sure looks like they are adding a lot more excitement this episode. Last season's was boring and they must have lost a ton of viewers....
pb

(Chuckle)

Hey Dejavu, I'm also out tonight so I'm doing the 80s videotape thing as well ! (But then, I enjoyed the 80s) Join the club.

Party on, Mathieu. ;-)

I recently realized that some of my freshmen were BORN the year I graduated high school ('88).

!!!!!!

THey are going to places they haven't before is what Phil said in an interview in Entertainment weekley.

I know for sure they are hitting Moscow and Sicily.

It's 9pm on the West coast this week for the two-hour season premiere, then 10pm will be the regular time.

I can't wait! I've planned my evening so I'll be home and ready to watch.

For months, my husband and I watched the reruns on Game Show network, but when the time was changed from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., we finally stopped watching (except occasionally).

I think this is the best show on TV.

I bought the DVD set of the first race and watched it a week ago. I hadn't started watching until about race 5.

Interesting seeing the changes. The biggest probably being the expansion of Phil's role (good change) and a reduction in the number of Fast Forwards.

And it shows why they are so careful to keep bunching the teams up. Would really kill the show if a team was a day or two ahead of all the rest for the last few episodes.

Keith

On GSN they're rerunning Season 2 (I think it's 2)--whichever season they had Oswald and Danny on. I just loved that team!

I love the Cha Chas too.

I wish they'd have more fast forwards. I much prefer that to the Yield which I don't really care for.

They end up this series in Milwaulkee. My sister and Brother-In-Law were there in Sept and saw the filming. They won't tell me anything though:(

BTW...they also met Mick Jagger that same day in the Art Museum there. Why don't I ever see anyone or anything exciting like that?????

I've been home sick from work today but vowed to myself to stay up long enough to see it. I even marked it on my calendar..how silly is that?

Jagger was in the Milwaukee Art Museum?!? They have an art museum there?!? Jagger spotting is WAY more exciting to me than the Amazing Race, and I ADORE the Amazing Race!

The first time I went to Red Rocks, I had just moved here from Seattle -- at sea level...and I remember taking a few steps up into the hills and having to pause for air.

Now that I've lived here for 5 years and go hiking at 10-12,000 feet on a fairly regular basis, I love watching outsiders "wheeze for air" in the altitude here.

Jules

Hi Surfergirl,

LOL about Jagger in Milwaukee. But the Milwaukee Art Museum is now a destination because of it's unique building addition:

"May 4, 2001, marked the initial unveiling of the Milwaukee Art Museum's new expansion and renovation which combines art, dramatic architecture and landscape design. The new Quadracci Pavilion, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed building in the United States, features a 90-foot high glass-walled reception hall enclosed by the Burke Brise Soleil, a sunscreen that can be raised or lowered creating a unique moving sculpture."

www.mam.org

I like the attitudes of all the teams. Was predisposed not to care for a couple of the teams that seem full of themselves, but I don't dislike any of them so far.

My favorite teams at this time are the self proclaimed nerds (Dave & someone), Lake & Michele, and Joseph & Monica.

The last place team were clearly out of their element. The other weakest teams look like the sisters that finished just ahead of them, and the seniors. For an older team to really compete, they are going to have to play a lot smarter than they did in the first leg.

The hippies don't seem to be for real. They are more like a couple of radio DJs performing. But I still like them.

Keith

About ten minutes and counting here on the Left Coast. High winds blew out our cable service last night (first time ever), and I was antsy until it was repaired late this afternoon.

It was terrific, but I'm not telling who was eliminated! Barb

Oh My Gawwwwdddd Amazing Race is back. I can already tell this is going to be a good one. Favorites so far are hippie boys (even if they are faux I like their attitude) the mom and daughter, the nerdy couple and the older couple. Least favorites are team pink, the moms-they are going to grate fast and the super aggressive husband. Lots of fun in store....
JenV

Weren't the aerials of San Paulo terrific! I felt sorry for the poor picking of the ones who didn't get on the helicopters. Wow, those Brazilian cities are HUGE and congested- despite being so spred out for hundreds of square miles. Density was astounding and evident.

I just looked it up. 18 million and 5th largest metro population in the world and biggest in S.A.

Some of these teams will drop off easily as they don't have the burn. Lots of good personalities and expressive people, just what I wanted. But I do think they are, in majority, better looking people than average. Even the nerds are cute, just not stylish. I guess average looking people don't often get picked for most anything tv-wise.

There is not one team that I dislike and most are tending to operate on a cooperation/competition basis, instead of a manipulative/duplicity platform. What a concept! It works in business and politics too;I'll scratch your back and you'll scratch mine.

Absolutely love the playful and sweet relationship the nerds have. My favorite right now is the couple from Chicago, because I am partial and that's a good excuse. Bet they will tend to dominate some of the physical challenges.

I think the 1st place finishers will be hard to beat. Their mindset and lifestyle choices in the past have made them perfect Amazing Racers.

Great episode! I'm so glad it's back. The older sisters have already started to grate though, with the constant and unnecessary screaming. Thank goodness for the mute button!

My only disapointment in this episode was that I saw nothing in Brazil to make want to go there. And they will probably be out of the country in the next episode - they cover 60,000 miles in this race.

Wonder what the roadblock was? It didn't make it on air.

Keith

Did you notice Phil's reaction to the sisters' screaming? I got a kick out of them, however. The building the motorcycle challenge looked much harder than I would have expected.