Sixteen years and 28 seasons in, The Amazing Race is still exploring uncharted territory: For the first time ever, the show will send pairs of complete strangers around the world instead of teams with pre-existing relationships on Season 29, which premieres on a new night and time, Thursday at 10/9c on CBS. The show's producers won't do the pairing themselves: The 22 racers will complete a challenge at the starting line to determine the order in which they'll select their partners based only on first impressions. (Shout-out to everyone who's been picked last in dodgeball.) And then it's off to such places like Panama City (the first destination), Tanzania, Norway and Greece -- with lots of bickering in between, natch. Meet the cast -- of complete strangers See what else Keoghan has to say about the huge twist, which racers you should keep an eye on, and how you can make a Season 30 happen. The strangers twist has always been bandied about, even in theory. There are a lot of fans that have said, "Look, I wanna go on the race, but I'm having difficulty tracking down somebody who can take time off work." The timing seemed right to try something coming off the back of 28, which was themed around the whole idea of people in social media. [Laughs] Gosh, you only have to watch The Bachelor to see that -- and even after all that rigmarole a lot of those relationships don't work. When you have people with a pre-existing relationship, generally speaking, those two people have something in common.
The Amazing Race 29's Phil Keoghan Reveals Why It Was Time For An All-strangers Season
By Joyce Eng, TV GUIDE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Entertainment
Tue, 03/28/2017 - 11:33am
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