Nobody shows The Amazing Race in the UK anymore (AFAIK), but there was something similar on the BBC recently called Race Around the World. At first I thought it was just a UK version of TAR, but the format is very slightly different - I assume different enough to avoid lawsuits. In RAATW five pairs have to get from London to Singapore via a number of checkpoints, the location of which they only get one at a time. They have limited funds, and there's an elimination round once. Sound familiar?
The difference is that there aren't real tasks like they have in TAR, and you can't take a plane. This is an overground only competition! Lots of buses, taxis and trains. They start with equivalent funds for the airfare to Singapore (I assume a full retail amount since you can almost certainly fly there more cheaply than they suggest), and on-screen we get a countdown of the percentage of their funds they have left. But they can earn money by spending time doing holiday jobs - all of which have clearly been set up. But a day selling cold drinks might only earn you $20 in Vietnam, so it's sort of fair. I stayed with it and quite liked it, even if a lot of the competition is really created in the edit. Adam On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 12:42 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve watched the first two episodes of the “The Amazing Race” this season > and so far it’s kind of meh. It pits teams from “Survivor” and “Big > Brother” against veteran teams of “The Amazing Race.” One common theme: > “The Amazing Race” is much harder than “Survivor.” This is interesting > considering it follows “Survivor” on Wednesday night but only has > two-thirds of the viewers. It was the fifth most-watched show last > Wednesday. I don’t know if that is good or bad. > There’s no clear villains at this point and really no one to root for. I > wonder if that is a casualty of drafting teams from other reality shows? > They don’t want to risk losing fans by making someone look bad? > I’m hoping the shows pick up in the next few episodes. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
