This Friday's episode of "The Amazing Race" sees teams touch down in Scotland's Shetland Islands for the first time in the show's 25 seasons. In “Get Your Sheep Together," they must corral an unruly flock down a winding obstacle course. To help you make your predictions as to who will win and lost this third installment, we turned to one of our top users, Denton Davidson, for his insights. This three-time winner of our reality TV prediction contests chatted via webcam with senior editor Marcus Dixon and me about our love for this this 10-time Emmy champ for Best Reality-Competition Program. (Watch below, then cast your ballot and you could be the next user to be showcased on the site.) -Break- 'The Amazing Race' contest leaderboard: Are You one of our Top 10? Did you foresee superfans Dennis and Isabelle losing the last leg or that surfers Adam and Bethany...
- 10/10/2014
- Gold Derby
[This recap of Friday (October 3) night's "The Amazing Race" may be a bit rushed. I've got some Yom Kippur atoning to do. But I still want to do some honor to a decent enough Leg.] As you may have heard from a unshaven, drunk, pot-belled WWII era manager, there is no crying in baseball. Nobody has ever made the same claim about "The Amazing Race." In actuality, there's a lot of crying on "The Amazing Race." And I'm not entirely without understanding. Let's say you're an "Amazing Race" superfan and you've actually taken the time to study Race strategy and accumulate some of the skills that normally pay dividends and then you find yourself actually on "The Amazing Race" and in only your second Leg, you find yourself falling victim to a semi-unavoidable combination of current and lack of upper-body strength? I guess I can allow for some sniffling, especially if your commitment to remaining in...
- 10/4/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
It's going to take a while before this feels normal, isn't it? Friday (September 28) marked a new time period premiere for "The Amazing Race," which kicked off its 25th installment far from the Sunday 8 p.m. home in which viewers have become accustomed to football/golf/basketball delays throughout the year. That means that instead of having Sunday come to an abrupt end in the late afternoon as I wait for "The Amazing Race" to start, a normal Friday workday just never ends. So... Yay! Friday's "Amazing Race" premiere had the disadvantage of following a very good "Survivor" launch on Wednesday. I say it every year, but there's just not enough time in a single hour to properly introduce a full assortment of reality show contestants and also deliver satisfactory and fun challenges. So Wednesday's "Survivor" got to be 90 minutes and, perhaps as a result, I finished the premiere with...
- 9/27/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Bucking years of delayed gratification and withholding, CBS and "The Amazing Race" announced the show's Season 25 cast on Saturday (May 31) morning, just hours after the contestants left the starting line in New York City. In recent years, it has become an annual tradition for "Amazing Race" enthusiasts to be able to cobble together the identities of between 85 and 100 percent of the teams based on purloined cell phone pictures snapped from airports and outside challenges around the globe, images that were then matched with cryptic tweets and obscure Facebook status updates to the point of near-certainty. Despite those reports, though, CBS reliably waited until weeks before premiere for a full, formal casting announcement. The reason for the Season 25 deviation is simple: Rather than picking a starting line in a remote location or at a controllable venue like a stadium, the 11 participating teams left Times Square earlier this morning from the civilian-packed...
- 5/31/2014
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
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