After watching its ratings drop thanks to the family season and a number of different timeslots, among other factors, The Amazing Race saw a ratings increase this past season. The Amazing Race 10‘s ratings among viewers ages 18 to 49 increased by nine percent compared to last season, according to Media Life Magazine. The show …
Models, friends, and former drug addicts Tyler and James have won The Amazing Race 10, marking the fifth time in 10 seasons that two white guys in their ’20s or early ’30s have won the race (counting the Linzes, the four-person team of three guys and one female who won the family season, that makes …
The Amazing Race 10 has its final three teams, and one of them is an all-female team, the first time in 10 seasons we’ve ever had two women together in the final three. Next week is the one-hour finale–only an hour this year instead of the typical two-hour extended finale. While the funnier teams have …
Before I left for Costa Rica, I remarked to a friend that watching The Amazing Race had made me more excited and less apprehensive about traveling internationally, which I haven’t done since I was 15. At the beginning of the trip, I experienced everything through the lens of the show; after hiking a few hundred …
Traveling from Madagascar to Finland, the teams on The Amazing Race 10 had to ski or slog their way through mud, and rappel face-first down the tower at Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The mud-slogging was a good metaphor, as this episode seemed to drag pretty substantially–especially considering that it had no elimination at the end and …
David and Mary, the Kentuckians who were eliminated from The Amazing Race 10 during Sunday’s episode, won’t have to return home to their trailer with only $6,000 to show for their appearance on the series. That’s because, on The View this morning, Rosie “O’Donnell praised the couple for being so friendly and polite to the …
Another week, another 36-minute delay for the start of The Amazing Race. Instead of Phil, there’s a newsworthy profile of Russell Crowe. Sigh. CBS just hates us. Speaking of hate, teams that hated each other were forced to work together this week as the show introduced a new twist. Here’s this week’s installment of stupid …