The Amazing Race 16

Big Brother and Amazing Race cast members Jeff Schroeder and Jordan Lloyd have been given yet another show by CBS, though this will air online only and follow the couple as they travel Route 66. The 10 episodes of Jeff & Jordan Do America, which is similar in name and stars to Beavis and Butt-Head… continue reading

Amazing Race 16 cast member (and Big Brother alum) Jeff Schroeder will travel around the world again, but this time without Jordan Lloyd, and also without any money. He’ll be starring in the second season of Around the World for Free as he “attempts to travel around the world in 100 days … with nothing… continue reading

The finale of The Amazing Race 16 wasn’t close at all, as bros Dan and Jordan beat cowboys Jet and Cord by almost a half hour, and maintained a lead throughout the leg. More surprisingly, they revealed that homophobia on the race did not come from Caite, but instead from Jet. “We ended up beating… continue reading

The Amazing Race 16 had the series’ lowest-rated finale ever, after last fall’s race had significantly higher finale ratings than usual. An average of 10.63 million people watched, up slightly from a year ago, when 10.43 million watched Victor and Tammy win. CBS notes that’s up 340,000 viewers from last week, but among young viewers… continue reading

After a relatively weak season, The Amazing Race 16 delivered an enormously satisfying final episode: strong challenges, great drama, and best of all, an ugly meltdown from Caite Upton and Brent Horne, who were left in the dust where they belong. I’ll even forgive a lame final memory challenge–the elimination order, that’s it?–and the loss… continue reading

In March, The Amazing Race 16 contestant Louie Stravato was linked to a cop cocaine ring and put on desk duty, and he remains there today as the investigation is ongoing. In a post-elimination interview, he told People that he couldn’t comment, but also said he’s basically not guilty: “Unfortunately, I’m still on desk duty… continue reading

After 11 The Amazing Race 16 episodes, I’m really sick of the cowboys pointing out how everything in the freakin’ world is so new to them because they’re cowboys from a town so small there’s absolutely nothing there except oxygen and water. However, I realize that’s the editors treating us like infants, and as a… continue reading

After a two-week break, The Amazing Race 16 returned with all kinds of changes in Shanghai: an equalized start that found all four teams on the same plane, Brent and Caite being stupid, Jet and Cord checking in first, and yet another non-elimination leg. It was just all so completely different! Sigh. I’m grouchy about… continue reading

The debate about Brent and Caite’s use of the phrase “the lesbians” to refer to a fellow Amazing Race team now has some insight from Carol Rosenfeld and Brandy Snow, who don’t call Brent Horne and Caite Upton homophobic, but do think that the couple’s sexual orientation played a role in Caite’s contempt for them…. continue reading

Caite Upton finally got what she’s always wanted: She got to U-Turn Brandy and Carol, or “the lesbians” as her tiny brain always defines them, and thus send them home. Caite literally said “that’s all I want,” which is ridiculous, but hopefully means she and Brent can give up and go home and not reproduce… continue reading

Upon arriving at the Roadblock and seeing Jet and Cord leave to go check in first at the pit stop, Carol asked Brandy, “How could they be that far ahead?” That’s a fantastic question, considering they went from last to first despite having a Speedbump to complete; that was an The Amazing Race first, as… continue reading

Yet again, an episode of The Amazing Race was delayed by sports games, affording us this week the opportunity to watch former Mole host Anderson Cooper shirtless and putting on a wetsuit before swimming with great white sharks–and coincidentally foreshadow race host Phil Keoghan jumping off a boat to introduce a challenge. Of course, there… continue reading

For all of you Jeff and Jordan apologists who’ve rewritten your clock faces to have 25 quarter-hour segments, and who freaked out at my suggestion that they were the weakest team whose elimination from The Amazing Race was long overdue, get this: Jeff agrees. “We got sent on some unfortunate cab rides and got some… continue reading

Compared to last week’s lame drive, crawl, bike episode of The Amazing Race 16, last night’s episode felt like it belonged to a completely different season. There was no Roadblock last week, but this week’s had more action than the entire previous episode: rappelling into a cave, searching for a bottle among thousands of others,… continue reading

Amazing Race 16, what is going on with you? In France, your teams had a pretty spectacular canvas upon which to perform challenges, but you gave them the option to crawl. I really appreciate all of the effort that went into creating an immersive environment that looked and was edited to be rather dramatic, but… continue reading

The Amazing Race 16 contestant Louie Stravato, the mustachioed half of the detective team, “has been taken off the streets in the wake of an internal investigation into a major cop-operated cocaine ring,” TMZ reports. Citing Rhode Island State Police, TMZ reports he “has been put on ‘desk duty’ — after his name came up… continue reading

After a dismally boring episode last week, The Amazing Race picked up last night as it moved to Europe. It was one of those episodes that takes place entirely at night, and from that darkness came both a race element I’m not fond of, and a conclusion that seemed more surprising to me than to… continue reading