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Moderator
Moderator
06-30-2002
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:54 pm
test
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Sheilaree
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 9:19 am
I am think the gay couple is the two friends from highschool but I could be wrong.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 10:49 am
I don't think there is a gay team this year. The two friends from highschool -- Avi and Joe -- are strictly religious and plan to keep kosher on the race -- I'm not much of a religious person but I would think that two kosher Jews would not agree with being in a gay relationship. Just my two bits. Maybe the two girls -- Meredith and Maria -- are a gay couple, but I doubt the guys are.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, October 28, 2004 - 3:48 pm
I saw part of the introduction of the cast...and noticed lots of models this time around.
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Sheilaree
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, October 29, 2004 - 5:19 am
That true Karen
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, October 29, 2004 - 6:13 am
Those two guys are not the gay couple. The bios say that one of them lives with his girlfriend.
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Saggkl
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 5:29 pm
When does this new AR start?
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 5:41 pm
Tuesday Nov 16th. I think at 9pm.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Friday, November 05, 2004 - 9:08 pm
Many Jews who are not Orthodox, keep Kosher. Reform and Conservative children can and do attend public schools, even if they follow the rules of Kashruth. As others have pointed out, it's highly improbable that these contestants would be Orthodox, though.
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Sasman
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, November 08, 2004 - 9:41 am
Keeping a Kosher home has absolutely nothing to do with being Orthodox; I should know since we keep a Kosher home and I am a Conservative Jew. I do think that if they have food challenges similar to what they've had in the past, that they won't be able to do them. But, although I keep Kosher at home, outside of the home I'll eat some non-Kosher foods.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, November 08, 2004 - 6:09 pm
I am completely offtopic here but must comment on what I understand about Kosher foods (jewish) and Forbidden foods (Seventh day adventists/ other christian religious groups) From Above a quote " A few of the rules have some beneficial health effects" I would like to say that ALL of the rules had and still do have health benefits. These rules were definitely Health regulations!! As a medical person I could explain each and every reason for each 'rule' but I probably wouldnt be clear. A background in parasites/ bacteria/ virus would be needed and I am not up to par on the new discoveries. ON TOPIC!! I am so excited. HERE we go again! I love this show.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 2:23 pm
I saw Phil on The CBS Morning Show this morning. He said that one couple is without a doubt the LOUDEST team that they have ever had. They were so loud that the sound people were having all kinds of problems recording them. I have no idea what we are in for!
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 4:32 pm
Can't wait to find out! I can never predict what teams will be like from their bios, so I'm just itching for the show to start. Some of the trailers have been interesting, including one guy shouting something like "I want a divorce!" to his wife!
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Staxwax
Member
08-06-2004
| Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 6:21 pm
what you do to change about TAR?
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 8:39 pm
Well, of course, I want to change it to having back to back races!! Maybe a month or two between to regroup -
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Saturday, November 13, 2004 - 9:50 pm
I would love it if they didn't have an elimination the first week!! I'd really like to get to know all the couples alittle before they leave. 
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 12:46 pm
Well I think that's why they did a 2 hour episode this time around owl....so you know at least something about the team eliminated first. And there is a rumor that in TAR7 each person has to do a certain number of Roadblocks in the race (or the reverse, one person can't do more than a certain amount), so in male/female teams the male doesn't do almost all of them.
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Fabnsab
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 3:11 am
I am getting a bit tired of the same formulaic teams. We always seem to have the token older folks, the token average joe buddies, the hothead couple, the cutesy gorgeous couple...How about some variety? It's like they're turning into the Real World with their list of charicatures they need to fill. The one thing I love about this show though is, no matter what you do or who you are, it is just as hard. There really isn't the popularity factor that other shows have. Noone is immune to a bad day.
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 2:21 pm
You might want to tape the Early Show from Tuesday-Friday....one of their anchors and their weather guy (Harry smith and Dave Price) actually did the first leg about the same time as the other teams, and did the exact same tasks. They'll be showing them doing it this week. They also put most of their stuff online after the program airs, so it might be there too.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 2:36 pm
Hey, Wilson -- is it too late to join in on your AR game? I've never played before...
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 6:24 pm
the only thing I'd change in the Amazing Race format is.......Starting with MORE teams and having a very complicated multi-task series of Roadblocks BEFORE they get to fly off to another country. Like starting with 20 teams and only having places on the planes for 12 teams. Also, I really dislike the Lining up that teams do at certain Roadblocks etc. A team can be hours ahead and they are stopped dead in their tracks by a 'tourist' task which is only open 9-5 (for instance) I would like to see ALL tasks to be available Anytime of the day. mind you, maybe the countries pay the AR producers some $$$$ to show their tourist sites on the show.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 7:01 pm
See, I think that's one of the best things about the race, Sunshyne! I love the fact that a team that is in the rear can come back and regroup with the rest of the teams. I think it adds a bit more reality to the show, cause really -- how many 'tourist attractions' are open at 3am? Waiting for flights and for things to open are all part of the travelling experience.
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 7:35 pm
no yankee...join in anytime. (just get the picks in before the ep starts on the East Coast...6pm board time) And even if miss a week, these things are weighted at the end so anyone can come back... I agree with Karen....Most tourist destinations and landmarks have operating hours, and that's part of traveling. The other thing is, they don't a team to get like 3 days ahead of everyone else, and make the race anti-climatic. For the sake of the show, you have to give any team a chance ot win if the breaks go their way, and let a team be able to catch up if something bad happens.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 8:07 pm
Thanks Wilson -- I put in my wacky, non-researched picks earlier!
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, November 15, 2004 - 8:56 pm
November 16, 2004 An Audience Finally Catches Up to 'The Amazing Race' By JOE RHODES n the relatively short history of reality television there seems to have been one inescapable pattern: a show is either successful right out of the gate or it sputters and quickly dies. Slow starts are rarely allowed. That makes CBS's late-blooming "Amazing Race" a notable survivor: it flirted with cancellation for four seasons before ratings suddenly escalated last summer, making it the most-watched reality series on television. After years of bouncing around in low-priority time slots, "The Amazing Race," in which 11 2-person teams race around the world in pursuit of a million-dollar prize, will have its sixth-season premiere with a two-hour special tonight, in the high-profile heart of the prime-time November sweeps. "Sometimes you just get a perfect storm of elements, and that's clearly what happened in Season 5," said Kelly Kahl, executive vice president of programming at CBS. His theory? The cumulative effect of a hard-core fan base, years of effusive reviews (a number of which called "The Amazing Race" the best reality show on television in its first season), back-to-back Emmy Awards in 2003 and 2004 for best reality program, and a particularly appealing cast of competitors all came together to bolster the show's ratings, particularly among the younger viewers prized by the networks. The late-September season finale drew nearly 13 million viewers and the summer episodes averaged 10.7 million, high numbers for that time of year. More important from CBS's perspective, the show nearly doubled its ratings among its 18-to-34 viewers and won its time period every week. The ratings resurrection has been especially gratifying for Bertram van Munster, the show's Dutch-born co-creator and executive producer. For Mr. van Munster, the show is the culmination of his lengthy career as a globe-trotting documentarian, a rough-and-tumble life that included several seasons in harm's way as the chief cameraman on "Cops." The "Amazing Race" had such a shaky start, though, that he was convinced it would not survive. The series had its premiere on Sept. 5, 2001, six days before the terrorist attacks. The opening sequence, which had seemed so exhilarating when it was first broadcast - a computer-generated close-up of a passenger jet racing through clouds - suddenly seemed ominous. "Once we saw our billboards covered in dust from the 9/11 tragedy, we knew we had a problem," Mr. van Munster said. "The world had changed from one second to another, and we were doing a show about traveling overseas, about airplanes. At that point, I thought the show was over. I didn't think we had a chance." There were other problems. In the wake of the enormous success of "Survivor," the first big wave of reality programming was flooding the networks and, programming analysts say, "The Amazing Race" got lost in the crowd. "I think they had a hard time differentiating themselves from some of those other shows," said Stacey Lynn Koerner, a broadcast ratings analyst and executive vice president of Initiative Media Worldwide. "The ratings performances were never bad, but they didn't compare to the blockbuster numbers that 'Survivor' was getting." The ratings might have been mediocre, but audience reaction to "The Amazing Race" was intense from the start. Reviewers gushed and Internet devotees sang its praises. Andy Dehnart, the creator and editor of realityblurred.com, a Web site devoted to reality television, said viewers were quickly hooked on the show's deceptively simple premise: teams of people with existing relationships - married couples, best friends, siblings - race from one designated location to another, performing tasks and picking up clues to their next destination, experiencing local customs and frequently getting lost along the way. The last team to arrive at each pit stop is eliminated from the race. "I think one of the biggest reasons people love this show is that you get to live vicariously through the people on the screen," Mr. Dehnart said. "It's not like other shows where people are made to suffer or humiliate themselves. Most of the time, these people are doing things you'd like to do yourself." "I think the cast is very important, that's half the battle," Mr. van Munster said, acknowledging that the quirky assortment of contestants in Season 5 - including a maniacally intense man named Colin, born-again Christian fashion models and an easygoing middle-aged couple who eventually won the race - had a lot to do with the increased audience interest. "We want people between 21 and 70 from all walks of life," he said. The first season saw competitors travel from New York to Johannesburg, Paris to Tunis, Rome to New Delhi, and then to Bangkok, Beijing, Anchorage, San Francisco and back to New York. Scheming, bickering and exhausted, participants in the first five seasons have found themselves bungee jumping in New Zealand, searching archaeological digs in Egypt, stuffing themselves with cheese in Switzerland and with caviar in Russia. They have raced sampans and ox carts, crawled through temples filled with rats, ridden elephants and camels, climbed mountains, kayaked over waterfalls and hang glided from cliffs. Through it all, the ratings remained good but not great. "There were times when it was close to being canceled," Mr. Kahl of CBS said. "It's a show that was always on the bubble. But it had a lot of things going for it. It was always one of the youngest-skewing shows on our air, if not the youngest. And the response we got from fans - letters, e-mails, phone calls - was almost unprecedented." For his part, Mr. van Muster said: "They never told us it was in trouble or that it wasn't coming back. But sometimes the phone would be awfully quiet for a couple of months. That always made me nervous." Last summer, though, perhaps because word of mouth had finally spread far enough or perhaps because other shows had failed to find an audience, "The Amazing Race" finally took off. "I think it just took a while for the audience to find it," said the show's executive producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, whose heavyweight presence (he also produces the immensely profitable "CSI" franchise for CBS) might have helped the series survive the rough spots. Now Mr. van Munster must deal with the perils of success. For the first few seasons, he and his crew (including the show's host, Phil Keoghan) could move from place to place in relative anonymity. Not anymore. "Now, wherever we go, in southern India or running through the Jakarta airport," Mr. van Munster said, "people know who we are. They come up and yell, 'You're "The Amazing Race"!' But I don't mind, I think of it as free-flow advertising." With so many people on the lookout for him and his racers, you would expect Mr. van Munster to be worried about Internet spoilers ruining the fun, tipping off destinations and tasks long before they hit the air. "We use decoy teams," he said, obviously enjoying the prospect of outsmarting the cyber spies. "They never really know where we're going. If I take you to Paris," he said, "I'm not taking you to the Eiffel Tower. I take you to the sewer pipes." The only downside he sees to success is that his international production crews assume his budget has gone up accordingly. "When you start getting Emmys, then everybody all of a sudden thinks you're rich," he said. "They think CBS is doubling the budget. You can be assured that is not the case." In the meantime, Mr. van Munster continues to scout locations for the seventh season, more than ever convinced that the world is a far less dangerous place than it sometimes seems. "Everybody everywhere has been helpful to us from the beginning," he said, "because I tell them: 'I'm not here to criticize your country or your culture. I'm here to bring Americans to learn from you and to have a good time.' Right now, the only places I wouldn't consider going are Iraq and Afghanistan. Everything else is on the board." link
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 5:37 pm
Hey, is there a specific location for show spoiling (on the night of the show that is, not other spoilers)? Gen. Info is different for this TAR, usually we can create threads for each show. Maybe use the Spoilers area?
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Tatyana
Member
08-06-2001
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:14 pm
omg where have i been, i can't believe this is starting tonight ;)
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:29 pm
I just started a new thread back one level... for tonight's spoiler. I'm hoping the mods will move it to a "General Discussions" Folder soon. But if someone wants to go spoil... hint hint!
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Raenstorm
Member
07-16-2004
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:35 pm
lol - I'm here for spoiling duty, Costa Thanks for creating the thread.
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Moderator
Moderator
06-30-2002
| Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:59 pm
Everything should be setup properly now - Enjoy! ModND
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