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The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race is an American reality game show in which teams of two or four race around the world against other teams, with the first-place team winning $1,000,000. As the original version of the Amazing Race franchise, the CBS program has been running since 2001 and has completed sixteen seasons. In January 2010, CBS ordered a seventeenth season.

The show was created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, who, along with Jonathan Littman, serve as executive producers. The show is produced by Earthview Inc. (headed by Doganieri and van Munster), Bruckheimer Television for CBS Paramount Television and ABC Studios (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company). For all seasons, the series is hosted by veteran New Zealand television personality, Phil Keoghan.

The series has won the first seven Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program awarded since the category was created in 2003. Although it has moved around several prime time time slots since its inception, the program has averaged about 10 million viewers per season.

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Episode 1 : Thailand Kickstarts the Amazing Race Asia 3

Kicking off the race from a brand new location, 10 teams start off in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, gunning for the top prize of US$100,000. And at the Rama 1 Monument, the 10 teams assembled are the most diverse in the race yet. From Thailand, there are the beauty queens – former Miss Universe [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3- Teams – Ida & Tania

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, or make that a group of 13 females who were shortchanged. Such was the case that involved Malaysians Ida Nerina, 44, and her best friend Tania Khan, 36, in, of all places, a luxury resort! Throw in a hen’s party, a burnt rug, hotel management and even [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Teams – Sam & Vince

Both started out as teachers but in their spare time, one is a master of words while the other plays with words. Meet Vince Matthew Chung, the former primary school teacher turned full time comedian cum host, and his best bud Samuel Wu, a university lecturer who ranks as one of the top players on [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Teams – Mai & Oliver

Oliver started out as a friend of her brother, and Mai first got to know him when she was dating one of his friends. Fate threw them together, but not in any romantic way, but as best friends. In a way, actress and model Visa Sarasas, or Mai, as she is known to her friends, [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Teams – Henry & Bernie

Fans of Asian reality television might recognize model and host Bernie Chan – she was the face of Project Runway Malaysia last year. But few would recognize her race teammate and elder brother, Henry Chan. It is not because the 43 year old isn’t famous, but rather because the chef and restaurant owner has had [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Teams – A.d. & Fuzzie

Colourful does not begin to describe long-time friends A.D. Chan and Fuzzie Sirajudin. As one can tell, normal does not describe the default buddies, as they describe themselves, who oddly define their relationship as “an old married couple”. “We’re like that, except we’re not old, we’re not married, and we’re not a couple!” says Fuzzie, [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Teams – Geoff & Tisha

You can call this her second chance. A technicality led to her resignation as Miss Philippines Universe 10 years ago and Tisha Silang is making sure that history does not repeat itself. In 1998, Tisha won the Miss Philippines Universe crown but had to give it up because of her Canadian citizenship. While that win [...]

The Amazing Race Asia 3 – Teams – Neena & Amit

If one half of this team can “betray” even family to get what he wants, what chance do the other teams have? Take Amit Rai, 27, for instance. One thing he has never forgiven his cousin, Neena Rai, 24, who used to be an air hostess, for is never introducing him to any of her [...]