"Amazing Race 7" March 1st

[smiley21]

It is three weeks from now but I like to stay on top of things
This is my show!!


Here we go again!!


Teams:

1) Brian and Greg - Brothers
2) Debbie and Bianca - Lifelong Friends
3) Lynn and Alex - Boyfriends
4) Megan and Heidi - Roommates
5) Meredith and Gretchen - Grandparents
6)Ray and Deana - Off and On Dating
7) Rob and Amber - Engaged
8) Ron and Kelly - Dating
9) Ryan and Chuck - Best Friends
10) Susan and Patrick - Mother and Son
11) Uchenna and Joyce - Married


Amazing Race 7

[docetboy]

My thread's better. Nothing to see here. Use my thread!

[TxAPhi]

CBS announced today that The Amazing Race 7, the seventh edition of its resurgent two-time Emmy winning reality series, will debut Tuesday, March 1 at 9PM ET/PT with a special two-hour premiere episode.

Beginning the following week, The Amazing Race 7 will air Tuesdays at 9PM ET/PT, the same time period in which the sixth installment of the series is currently airing.

The announcement means that The Amazing Race 7 will premiere only three weeks after the finale of The Amazing Race 6 -- an unusually short break that would appear to conflict with the network's previous publicly stated programming strategies.

Last fall, CBS cited a desire for a "cool down" period following The Amazing Race 5's highly rated summer run as its reason to postpone The Amazing Race 6's originally announced September 25 debut until later in the season. "We've seen (evidence) that it really helps to put a little space between one version and the next," CBS Vice President Kelly Kahl told Daily Variety at the time. "We want to let the audience breathe a little before we bring the show back."

However, according to Zap2It.com, CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler cited the ratings momentum that The Amazing Race 6 has continued as the justification for the quick turnaround during today's Television Critic Association Press Tour.

The discrepancy would seem to be explained by only a few possibilities -- either CBS has truly changed its programming strategies in the past few months, or perhaps it was being less than forthcoming with the fact that its decision to delay TAR6 had less to do with a desire for "downtime" and more to do with holding the then resurgent series back to serve (as it eventually did, and as we speculated at the time) as a replacement for its first weeknight casualty of the new fall television season. Welcome to Hollywood.

The Amazing Race 6 will end with a two-hour finale on Tuesday, February 8. The Amazing Race 6, which regularly wins its time period in key demographics, is currently averaging 11.27 million viewers, a 4.5/11 rating/share in Adults 18-49 and a 5.1/11 in Adults 25-54. The Amazing Race 7 -- rumored to be featuring Survivor: All-Stars couple Amber Brkich and fiance Rob Mariano competing as a team -- began filming in late November.

Given TAR6's finale date and the fact that Survivor: Palau is scheduled to premiere on Thursday, February 17, it had been speculated that CBS might use The Amazing Race's downtime to move Wickedly Perfect, the new reality series that it is currently airing in Survivor's Thursday time period, to The Amazing Race's Tuesday time period for the balance of its ten-episode run.

However, as part last week's Survivor: Palau premiere announcement, CBS announced that Wickedly Perfect would be exiled to the Saturday evening time period originally intended for The Amazing Race 6 and most recently occupied by The Will -- which it yanked from its schedule following one low-rated episode broadcast.

CBS's The Amazing Race 7 announcement means that like last week's Survivor announcement, The Amazing Race 7's broadcast run will take it through the May 2005 Nielsen ratings sweeps period -- toward which CBS appears to be directing its younger-skewing programming (even more so than usual) in an attempt to ensure that it succeeds in capturing the Adults 18-49 demographic May sweeps win as the capstone to its record-setting season.

While CBS has led all broadcast networks among total viewers for each of the last two seasons, the Adults 18-49 title (won by NBC the last four years, with Fox placing second) has long-eluded the older-skewing erstwhile Tiffany Network. Earlier this fall, CBS won the November sweeps period in Adults 18-49 for the first time since 1980 -- a feat it no doubt hopes to duplicate this May.

Demonstrating the enormous difference that one season can make, season-to-date, CBS is first in Adults 25-54 (4.9/12) with a 0.4 lead over second place ABC (4.5/11) and first in Adults 18-49 (4.0/11), 0.1 ahead of ABC (3.9/11). NBC is third for the 2004-2005 season in Adults 18-49 (3.7/10) and Adults 25-54 (4.3/10) while Fox is -- as it has for each of the past two seasons -- counting on incredible numbers from American Idol 4 (which premieres tonight) to salvage its season.

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Originally posted by docetboy
My thread's better. Nothing to see here. Use my thread!

no no i am the AR master around here. i cannot believe we posted at the same time. how funny

[mmcat]

bring it soon....we need our fix.

[GreenKappa]

totally agree mmcat....addiction central

[ms_gwyn]

you all know that I love this show....but I am worried about over saturation

[AznSAE]

the amazing race needs a greek chat team. does anyone want to be my partner for the next season? i promise i won't yell, be bossy, piss you off, and be all wacked out .

[smiley21]

For season 8, they are casting families. I do not know how exciting it could be with kids. This could the beginning of AR's downfall which is really sad. But I really do not want see kids running all over the world. I suspect there is an age requirement like above 18. Let's hope

[valkyrie]

I don't watch Survivor but I can't believe they're putting Amber and Rob on TAR -- how LAME. Now they can have 900 teams who are either ACTORS or MODELS or FORMER REALITY SHOW CONTESTANTS.

[ms_gwyn]

Originally posted by AznSAE
the amazing race needs a greek chat team. does anyone want to be my partner for the next season? i promise i won't yell, be bossy, piss you off, and be all wacked out .

I am so there, everyone that I've asked in the world have denied me.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by smiley21
For season 8, they are casting families. I do not know how exciting it could be with kids.

I could be wrong (it happens), but I doubt families means kids, at least kids younger than 16 or so. If for no other reason, I would think liability concerns would keep kids out, even if nothing else did.

I would expect families to mean siblings, parents and grown kids, married couple and in-laws, grandparents and grown or college age grandkids, etc.

ETA: I checked out the Application Form for TAR8 at CBS. Team members must be at least 12, and if they are under 18 a parent or legal guardian must also be on the team.

[ms_gwyn]

Originally posted by valkyrie
I don't watch Survivor but I can't believe they're putting Amber and Rob on TAR -- how LAME. Now they can have 900 teams who are either ACTORS or MODELS or FORMER REALITY SHOW CONTESTANTS.

I don't want to loose the love of this show....but this is getting pretty close pushing the envelope for me.

I want real people damnit, that is what makes this show great. NOT BARBIE DOLLS...and the family show....that will just be a headache....

[Sister Havana]

CBS has The Amazing Race 7 page up now, with the new teams. No models this time, but we do have Miss South Carolina 2002 (she's on a team with her boyfriend, who was a POW in Iraq). Other teams in the mix: a set of brothers, grandparents, two best friends teams (one male, one female), a gay couple, a set of grandparents, an off-and-on dating couple with a 17 year age difference, a set of roommates who look like the Paris Hilton Lookalike Twins, a married couple, and a mother-son team.

[valkyrie]

Oh man, I wonder if my dad would go on with me.