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Ladytex
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09-27-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 2:48 pm
Seventh 'Amazing Race' in Starting Gate at CBS (Tuesday, January 18 11:00 AM) http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|93015|1|,00.html LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Viewers won't have long to wait between heats of "The Amazing Race." CBS said Tuesday (Jan. 18) at the TV Critics Association winter press tour that the seventh edition of the Emmy-winning competition will make its debut Tuesday, March 1 -- only three weeks after the current race finishes. That's an unusually short break between installments of a reality show. "Survivor" typically has a couple of months between its two editions each season on CBS, and other competition-based shows like "American Idol" and "Big Brother" run only once per season. An exception is "The Bachelor" franchise on ABC, which has shorter runs than the others. CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler says the ratings momentum the current "Amazing Race" has generated -- it's posted big improvements for CBS in its 9 p.m. Tuesday timeslot -- justified the quick turnaround on the next installment. The timing also means the seventh race will carry into May sweeps. "The Amazing Race 6" will conclude with a two-hour finale on Tuesday, Feb. 8. A Dr. Phil special and a "One Day at a Time" reunion show will fill the time period on the two Tuesdays between the finale and "The Amazing Race 7's" premiere.
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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 5:30 pm
Don't know if this is fact but I read somewhere that Romber were going to be on this show.
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Starshine40
Member
07-30-2002
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 6:11 pm
Please quit calling them Romber...their names are Rob and Amber. I feel it's belittling to someone to call their names like this. I would be offended if it were me.
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Scorpiomoon
Member
06-06-2002
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 6:44 pm
Oh please! In the fall, when CBS had so many hopeful dramas, they postponed TAR and treated the show as if it were an afterthought. Now that so many CBS shows bit the dust, they NEED TAR. Besides, the CSi franchise and Survivor, what else is bringing in ratings? Let's hope, with the production time being sped up, the quality of the show hasn't decreased any more within season seven as it did this season.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:29 pm
It's a fact, KL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:37 pm
YAH I can't wait to see Rob and Ambah!
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:42 pm
Can we call them Ambob?
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Darrellh
Member
07-21-2004
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 7:28 am
I suppose "that d*mned survivor couple" will have to do.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 10:33 am
Eeyoreslament...don't make me snort out my coffee again!
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 11:33 am
Ordinarily I'm a big supporter of recycling but please let that just be a rumor about Rob & Amber. Nothing against them, I'd just prefer to see different people. Still, even if it's true, and despite my misgivings about this current season (although things are definitely looking up after last night's elimination), I'll watch TAR7. But only a three week break from TAR6 to TAR7? I know there's been not-too-long gaps between seasons before but jeez...I hope I don't get TAR burnout. *Shrug* I often don't mind repeats, pre-emptions, and short hiatuses for my favorite shows because they're like little tv vacations. (But do I use those breaks to catch up on something I may have taped? No, I'm not that efficient. Let's see...I watch 5 shows every week and even that can overwhelm me. I am just sad, LOL.)
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Karen
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09-07-2004
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 11:55 am
Maybe I'm alone here -- I'm kind of looking forward to seeing Romber (sorry, Starshine... it just has a nice ring to it.) on TAR. I enjoyed watching both of them on Survivor, and since the race is such a different game than Survivor, I think it'll be interesting to see what approach they take. They were good at lying and manipulating in Survivor, but that won't get you onto an airplane, now, will it? I thought that both Rob and Amber were decent people, and I could handle seeing them again, unlike having to see Allison from BB on the race. She was just too much.
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Texannie
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07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 12:09 pm
Amazing Race 7 airing three weeks after 6 ends; Survivor's Rob, Amber are a team. The Amazing Race 7 will debut two weeks after the finale of The Amazing Race 6. The show debuts March 1 at 9 p.m. ET, three weeks after this season ends on Feb. 8. That means CBS will have aired three seasons of the show in a single calendar year -- and who knows, they could bang out an eighth. Anyway, now is as good a time as any to confess that I've completely avoided posting a rumor about the season's cast. Annoyed with CBS for casting Big Brother <LC> Alison and her boyfriend on the fifth season, and being completely over the people I'm about to name, I had heart palpitations after hearing that Survivor All-Stars couple Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich are apparently one of the teams racing. (I've been over them since the Survivor All-Stars finale, and dread seeing them and their little romance on my television screen again. But I will deal.) This news popped up all over after the race started in late November, being mentioned on message boards and elsewhere, like in the Toronto Sun. So, now we're all caught up http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 4:26 pm
I think having Rob and Amber on the show is very different to having Alison and Donny. We know those two were in there to shout at each other and make supposed "good tv". Aside from the fact that they got together on Survivor, Rob and Amber seem like a normal couple, and I'd be interested to see how they handle AR.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 4:36 pm
If they win, do you think people would b!tch? I bet they would...
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 4:43 pm
sure they will, but I'm sure it won't bother those two, LOL ... I hope they do well.
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 5:17 pm
I got a snort out of "Ambob" too! 
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 5:28 pm
They will be much more entertaining to watch than Donny and Allison. Personally, I'm looking forward to it, and will probably root for them.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 6:50 pm
Oh good. I'm not completely alone. Thanks Lycanthrope, Kitt...
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 8:49 pm
Romber...LOL
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 8:57 pm
Karen, I'll join your club! I'm looking forward to seeing Rob and Amber on AR. It will be interesting to see how they deal with situations as a couple. I'll even go so far to say that if they are nice on the show and perform well, I wouldn't even mind seeing them win. And I'm sure they will be an improvement over most of what we are seeing this season. I’ll be cheering for them!
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 12:25 pm
I thrilled to hear Rob and Amber will be on TAR. I adore the Rob-father!
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 12:31 pm
<*grabs torches and banners, starts rounding up my troops... ROM-BER! ROM-BER! ROM-BER!*> Personally, I'd be flattered if someone came up with a nickname for my BF and I. A complete merging of two people, how romantic! Besides, who never used the term, "Bennifer"?
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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 12:56 pm
Karen, you beat me to it. Not only Bennifer, but Bennifer2 now that Ben is with Jennifer Garner. But I digress, I always liked Rob. They are sickeningly (new word) sweet with each other, but after this last season with Jon and Victoria, I think they will be a welcome relief. JMO
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Makays
Member
07-12-2001
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:06 pm
Quite frankly I could care less who is racing. As long as there is, The Amazing Race. I am a junky when it comes to this show. If I'm correct...somebody correct me if I'm wrong. But...It wasn't that long ago that this show was history. I really don't care who, what or where got it back on the high road. I look forward to each and every episode. JMHO
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:21 pm
Sounds like not only are the rumours true, but we'll get another televised wedding too... http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05020/444961.stm Amber, Rob to run 'The Amazing Race' Thursday, January 20, 2005 By Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Western Pennsylvania's "Survivor: All-Stars" winner Amber Brkich will appear in the 7th edition of CBS's "The Amazing Race," premiering March 1, running around the globe with her fiancee, fellow "Survivor" star Rob Mariano. "They're a very strong team, very competitive," said "Amazing Race" executive producer Bertram van Munster. His wife, "Race" co-creator Elise Doganieri, said Amber and Rob called "Race" "their second favorite reality show." Running the "Race" is "something that strengthens a team or tears them apart," Doganieri said. "I'm sure they had intimate discussions we didn't hear, but they're a strong team. They work well together." "You see them as a team rather than as singles competing," van Munster said, contrasting their "Race" appearance with how viewers saw them on "Survivor: All-Stars." That won't be the last we see of Amber in prime time. "I'm working on their wedding," said "Survivor" executive producer Mark Burnett. He indicated it will air on CBS, the "Survivor" network, possibly as a May sweeps special or as a short-run summer series
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