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The Amazing Race 34's teams on a raft at the start of the race (from left to right): Abby Garrett, Lumumba Roberts, Marcus Criag, Will Freeman, Glenda Roberts, Michael Craig, Nina Duong, Tim Mann, Linton Atkinson, Aastha Lal, Aubrey Ares, Rex Ryan, David Hernandez, Sharik Atkinson, Quinton Peron, Dom Jones, Claire Rehfuss, Mattie Lynch, Michelle Burgos, Derek Xiao, Rich Kuo, Luis Colon, Molly Sinert, Emily Bushnell

Amazing Race 34 starts with two major—and terrific—changes

The Amazing Race 34 offered two firsts: the elimination of something that's been around for the previous 33 seasons, and a brand-new twist.

Woniya, Callie, and Michelle, three of Alone: Frozen's competitors What Alone: Frozen’s winner thinks about making History Channel history
Jeff Probst watches as muddy members of the Baka tribe—Owen Knight, Morriah Young, Mike Gabler, and Elie Scott pull Sami Layadi up a wall during the first immunity challenge Survivor 43 begins with enthusiasm and ends with bizarre rationale for the first boot
Desi Williams competing in The Challenge USA's third episode Desi Williams on her DQ, rules, theft, and more: ‘not everything in The Challenge is fair’
Shangela dances with Gleb Savchenko on Dancing with the Stars season 31's Disney+ premiere How Dancing with the Stars changed on Disney+

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Rich reacts to winning $1 million on the finale of Survivor Borneo

Survivor Borneo’s finale changed Survivor, TV, and the world forever

Richard Hatch, Kelly Wiglesworth, Sue Hawk, and Rudy Boesch have survived to the end of Survivor: Borneo, and their incredible final moves in this new game would become the second-most-watched TV show of the 2000s. continue reading

The cast of Survivor Borneo before the start of their 39-day adventure

Survivor Borneo recaps, reviews, and episode analysis

This collection of my Survivor Borneo recaps explores the strategy, challenges, and events of CBS's Survivor season one, which introduced us to Richard Hatch, Sue Hawk, Rudy Boesch, Kelly Wiglesworth, Gervase Peterson, Colleen Haskell, and the other players in a game that changed television forever. continue reading

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The Challenge

Desi Williams competing in The Challenge USA's third episode Desi Williams on her DQ, rules, theft, and more: ‘not everything in The Challenge is fair’
Domenick Abbate, Sarah Lacina, Danny McCray, Justine Ndiba, Angela Rummans, Tyson Apostol, and Cayla Platt before Angela's DQ on The Challenge USA final Challenge USA players’ shocking claims: actual theft! unwritten rules! a wrong answer!
The Challenge flag at the finish line of its final. Those who made it there would win their money Who won The Challenge USA? Who quit? Who got screwed?
The Challenge's real-life logo, as seen on the season finale of The Challenge: USA Why is The Challenge USA so bad at challenges?
Angela Rummans, winner of the challenge on episode 10 of The Challenge: USA An alliance of six Challenge: USA players stay ‘locked in,’ and the result was familiar
Survivor's Danny McCray competing in "Collect Four," The Challenge USA episode 9's main challenge Sarah, sabotaged, tries to go after Angela and Alyssa on The Challenge: USA

BB24

BB24 winner Taylor Hale after winning HOH for the second time BB24’s winner and finale made Big Brother history
BB24's Paloma Agular Paloma is out of BB24 after a week of conducting Big Brother’s ‘Taylor Hate Train’
BB24 Big Brother 24's kitchen table, at which Marvin will not sit, because he's been replaced by Joseph BB24 already dropped and replaced its America’s Got Talent houseguest
Amazing Race 34 and Survivor 43 will premiere on the same night this fall, bumping Big Brother's finale to a different night Survivor’s premiere and Big Brother’s finale break up
BB24 host Julie Chen Moonves and The Challenge: USA host TJ Lavin CBS is pairing TV’s most-toxic reality competitions together this summer