The Amazing Race 33 is the thirty-third installment of the reality television show, The Amazing Race.
Production[]
Filming began on February 22, 2020 scattering around the United States, much like The Amazing Race 28, there was no traditional Starting Line. Instead, teams began the race in their homes and only met each other in their first destination where they received their first physical clue. But unlike season 28, there was no public live-stream as the destination was revealed to be London, England from host Phil Keoghan. On February 28, nearly a week on its scheduled three-week production run, filming was suspended for the first time in the show's history after three episodes were completed — two in England and one in Scotland — with the contestants and production crew sent home as a precaution due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.
After the season was suspended, Keoghan stated the show where they had left off and filming could not resume once viral transmissions declined. CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl told the show would film within "as soon as we can safely get back into production" with the producers working to "plot out a race that sticks to countries that are safe" but acknowledged the difficulties of "literally [having] to navigate some international waters." He stated that he was aware that any contestant would drop out for personal reasons. A year later, Keoghan told that he could not guarantee every team to be able to return from production once filming could resume. In April 2021, Mitch Graham, SVP of Alternative Programming, stated that production looked at the option of going to COVID-light countries but that it was unlikely as it would not lead to the same experience of traveling the globe. The following month, the creators of the show stated that they have plans to resume filming the season once they can assure team safety with mass vaccinations in target travel locations. Kahl said that he had hoped to provide the countries within low vaccination rates to film the remaining legs, and Keoghan stated that a plan to film safely having established.[3]
Filming resumed on September 19, 2021 in Switzerland after a year and a half of additional planning and rerouting the rest of the originally planned routes prior to the suspension. Reports emerged of an Amazing Race-branded Titan Airways Boeing 757 charter plane, with routes taking place in St. Gallen, Lugano, Corsica, Chalkidiki, Thessaloniki, Lisbon, and Los Angeles for the remainder of the Race. Filming finally concluded on October 6, 2021, nearly 20 months where it had begun.[4][5]
The fourth leg was originally intended to travel to Sweden, according to Bertram van Munster after he contacted CBS when he an his crew arrived in Lapland when the leg was to take place.[6][7] In addition to Sweden, the original route prior to the COVID-19 shutdown was to be Austria, Italy, Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, Chile, and Peru. If the plans had went ahead, Nepal would be the first visit in the American version, the only new country in this season, and the second in the franchise following HaMerotz LaMillion 7.[8][9] Austria and Italy were eventually revisited in the following season, while Sweden, Thailand, and Vietnam would eventually be revisited in the thirty-fifth season, and Chile in the thirty-sixth season.
Casting[]
Applications for this season were originally due on March 2019 but was postponed to August of that year. Casting began in late September 2019,[10] and casting finals occurred during the end of December 2019.[11]
Notable contestants including Love Island season 1 couple Caro Viehweg and Ray Gantt, married internet personalities Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness, Buffalo Singing Cops Michael Norwood and Moe Badger, 2015 Thalys train attack heroes Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone, and former convict Ryan Ferguson.
Teams[]
Kim & Penn
Internet Personalities |
Raquel & Cayla
Flight Attendants |
Ryan & Dusty
Best Friends |
Arun & Natalia
Father/Daughter |
Lulu & Lala
Twins/Radio Hosts |
Akbar & Sheri
Married Educators |
Michael & Moe
Singing Police Officers |
Anthony & Spencer
Childhood Friends |
Connie & Sam
Married |
Caro & Ray
Dating |
Taylor & Isaiah
YouTube Sensations |
Placement of the discharged teams is unofficial. They are sorted by the order they finished on Leg 3. |
Episodes[]
Episode | Air Date | Leg | Destination | First Place | Last Place | Finish | Viewership (millions) |
Ratings/Share (18-49) | |
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1 | "We're Back!" | January 5, 2022 | 1 | United States → United Kingdom | Anthony & Spencer | Michael & Moe | 1st Eliminated |
4.40[12] | 0.7[12] |
2 | "It Can't Be That Easy" | 2 | United Kingdom | Ryan & Dusty | Lulu & Lala | Ordered to Continue Racing | |||
3 | "Who Has This One in the Bag?" | January 12, 2022 | 3 | United Kingdom | Kim & Penn | Arun & Natalia | 2nd Eliminated |
3.49[13] | 0.5[14] |
4 | "Ready to Restart the Race" | January 19, 2022 | 4 | Switzerland | Ryan & Dusty | Taylor & Isaiah | Discharged | 3.66[15] | 0.7 |
Caro & Ray | |||||||||
Connie & Sam | |||||||||
Anthony & Spencer | |||||||||
Michael & Moe | 3rd Eliminated 7th Place | ||||||||
5 | "Stairway to Hell" | January 26, 2022 | 5 | Switzerland | Ryan & Dusty | Arun & Natalia | Non-Elimination Leg |
3.93[16] | 0.6[14] |
6 | "Say Cheese" | February 2, 2022 | 6 | Switzerland → France | Kim & Penn | Akbar & Sheri | 4th Eliminated 6th place |
3.76[17] | 0.6 |
7 | "Gently Down the Stream" | February 9, 2022 | 7 | France | Kim & Penn | Arun & Natalia | Non-Elimination Leg |
2.97[18] | 0.6 |
8 | "Souvlaki" | February 16, 2022 | 8 | France → Greece | Kim & Penn | Lulu & Lala | 5th Eliminated 5th place |
3.17[19] | 0.5 |
9 | "Rock Bottom" | February 23, 2022 | 9 | Greece | Raquel & Cayla | Ryan & Dusty | Non-Elimination Leg |
3.28[20] | 0.5 |
10 | "No Room For Error" | March 2, 2022 | 10 | Greece → Portugal | Raquel & Cayla | Arun & Natalia | 6th Eliminated 4th place |
3.97[21] | 0.7 |
11 | "In the Hands of The Amazing Race Gods" | 11 | Portugal → United States | Kim & Penn | Ryan & Dusty | 3rd Place | |||
Raquel & Cayla | 2nd Place |
Leaderboard[]
Place | Team | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 | Leg 9 | Leg 10 | Leg 11 | Average | [1] | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kim & Penn | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2.09 | 5-6 | ||
2 | Raquel & Cayla | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2.72 | 7-4 | ||
3 | Ryan & Dusty | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2.36 | 6-5 | ||
4 | Arun & Natalia | 9 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5.40 | 6-5 | |||
5 | Lulu & Lala | 10 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5.87 | 4-4 | |||||
6 | Akbar & Sheri | 6 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6.50 | 2-3 | |||||||
7 | Michael & Moe | 11 | 7 | 9.00 | 0-1 | |||||||||||
8 | Anthony & Spencer | 1 | 7 | 3 | Dis | 3.66 | 1-1 | |||||||||
9 | Connie & Sam | 7 | 2 | 4 | Dis | 4.33 | 1-1 | |||||||||
10 | Caro & Ray | 5 | 6 | 5 | Dis | 5.33 | 1-1 | |||||||||
11 | Taylor & Isaiah | 8 | 9 | 8 | Dis | 8.33 | 1-1 | |||||||||
Notes: | [2] | [3] | [4][5] | [6] | ||||||||||||
Legend:
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Notes:
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Trivia[]
- Due to the filming suspension caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this season is chronologically the longest, lasting around 19 months.
Franchise[]
- This is the season whose premiere date aired 23 months after filming had begun (tied with The Amazing Race 32).
- First season to be filmed across two calendar years.
- First season to bring back eliminated teams due to some of the remaining teams opting not to continue when the race resumed.
- First season to have multiple teams perform a Speed Bump in the same leg.
- First (and only) season to have a Restarting Line.
- First season to use an Amazing Race charter plane rather than an airline with scheduled commercial flights. The production team rented Titan Airways Boeing 757 for the remaining legs.
- This season is the first time to prohibit using public transportation to avoid interacting with people due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, production required marked private vehicles to contain self-driving throughout the Race.
- First season to have departure times where teams started by groups.
- First season to not feature the U-Turn or Speed Bump since their introduction in The Amazing Race 12.
- However, the Speed Bump itself was unaired, but this was the first season to penalize teams with a Speed Bump for reasons other than finishing last in a Non-Elimination Leg.
- First season to not feature a Megaleg since its introduction in the previous season.
US[]
- First season with a majority of person of color contestants: 14.
- African-Americans have the highest number of contestants: 8 (tied with The Amazing Race 34).
- Second season to feature a Virtual Starting Line, with the teams starting the race in their homes after The Amazing Race 28.
- This was the first season to be filmed in separate filming periods.
- This was the first season to feature a previously eliminated team returning to the Race.
- This was also the first season to visit only two continents, the fewest overall in standard format.
- This was the sixth season overall with no new countries visited (after seasons 21, 22, 23, 24 and 29).
- First season to have a non-elimination point of some kind in Leg 2.
- First season to implement the Departure Time Penalty as the penalty for the last team to arrive at a Non-Elimination Leg.
- First season to not visit Asia, excluding The Amazing Race: Family Edition, which never left North America.
- Therefore, this is the only season not to visit Asia until The Amazing Race 36.
- Fewest countries visited, 6 (in standard format).
- First season since The Amazing Race 26 to have four Non-Elimination Legs.
- Therefore, this would be the last season to feature a Non-Elimination Leg.
- First season since The Amazing Race 13 to feature only eleven single legs.
- First season where no one under the age of 30 crossed the Finish Line.
Reception[]
Gallery[]
Videos[]
References[]
The Amazing Race Season Index | |
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United States | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 · 34 · 35 · 36 |
Asia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
Australia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 |
Brazil | 1 |
Canada | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 |
Central Europe | Cancelled |
China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
China Rush | 1 · 2 · 3 |
Finland | 1 · 2 |
France | 1 |
Israel | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
Latin America | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
Norway | 1 · 2 |
Philippines | 1 · 2 |
Ukraine | 1 |
Vietnam | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
- ↑ Andy Dehnart (September 24, 2021). Amazing Race 33 appears to be filming again, and using a charter plane. reality blurred.
- ↑ Amazing Race Recap - Ep 4 (Bonus) (January 20, 2022). “It was a Sunday.”
- ↑ The Amazing Race 33 - Wikipedia
- ↑ Έρχεται το Amazing Race στη Χαλκιδική (el). Status FM 107.7 (September 21, 2021).
- ↑ Schneider, Michael (December 9, 2021). Inside the Herculean Effort to Resume 'The Amazing Race' After Its 18-Month COVID Shutdown (Exclusive). Variety.
- ↑ An Interview with Bertram van Munster, Executive Producer and Co-creator of "The Amazing Race"
- ↑ The Amazing Race at Paley Front Row 2020
- ↑ YouTube: Amazing Race DP Tests Positive - Explains his Experience (March 23, 2020).
- ↑ Bloom, Mike (January 3, 2022). The Amazing Race Producers Talk Filming Before and During the Pandemic and Preview Changes for Season 33. Parade.
- ↑ I start casting The Amazing Race next week. Get a jump start, apply below! | Andy Sloan Twitter
- ↑ ASAP | Phil Keoghan Twitter
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