Back into the TAR time machine we go – this time to late 2002. After the soft relaunch and incredible finale of Race 2, season 3 goes bigger. A bigger cast with 12 teams and fewer non-eliminations. A grander route featuring an all-new slate of countries. A cast of different archetypes that feels oh-so-fresh. And,…
The year is 2002. The world has just changed dramatically in the last couple of months. An attack has occurred on US soil the winds of war sweep throughout the world. Television is not immune from the real world, and a race that takes place throughout it certainly isn’t exempt. After narrowly avoiding cancellation amidst…
The premise was as simple as it was radical: “11 two-person teams, bound by friendship, love, or family, will race around the world.” In a time before smart-phones and digital cameras, and at the dawn of the internet, CBS had the wild idea to greenlight The Amazing Race – a globetrotting free-for-all for $1,000,000 –…
Having tapped out of Survivor after Season 41, dissatisfied with the continued budget cuts and the increased twists in the Jeff Probst-produced seasons in the so-called “New Era,” I was roped back in by the longer episodes of Survivor 45. Thoroughly whelmed by the experience, I had no intention of watching Survivor 46 this Spring….