Race Across The World

[TV.Cynic]

Latest season premieres in UK on 10 April.

Race Across the World, the BBC’s epic, hugely successful and much-loved BAFTA-award winning series returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its hotly anticipated new season from Wednesday 10 April.

Eastern Asia is this year’s route, and the five intrepid duos will battle it out in a breath-taking 15,000 kilometres race across several countries. From northernmost Japan, they will cross six seas and eight borders, skirting the path of the volcanic ring of fire - the most geologically unstable region on the planet to reach the finish line in Lombok, an idyllic Indonesian island paradise.

The teams include: two mother and daughter duos, Brydie and Sharon and Eugenie and Isabel; best friends, Alfie and Owen; married couple, Stephen and Viv and brother and sister, Betty and James.

Leaving behind their smartphones, internet access and bank cards, the race will test the five teams like never before, pushing them to both their physical and emotional limits. But with their feet on the ground, and their eyes wide open the rewards will be great, and the memories will be everlasting. Only one team can emerge victorious as they all vie to be first and claim the cash prize of £20,000.

[Chris]

Great that it’s coming back. The casting looks good too.

@Brekkie

Gut feeling when it was announced was why spoil a brilliant show with a needless if inevitable celeebrity version - and I did feel it was really missing something in episode 1. It seems to lack the jeopardy of the regular version - perhaps not so much due to the celeb factor but due to the route chosen. Europe is pretty easy to get around compared to previous locations and the first leg was basically a hop across the med then a bus or train to the next location, so it just lacked any sense of jeopardy. Each leg is likely just a couple of days too rather than a week as in the regular version.

I watched the Celebrity version a couple of months ago and really enjoyed it. The locations I really liked and it didn’t feel like a typical celeb show either as 3/4 teams were doing it with a parent, so it still had a similar feeling to the normal version.

I only haven’t see the Canada season which one day I’ll get too - when it came to bingeing a series over summer I just picked the Celeb one as it was shorter.

[Brekkie]

Oh absolutely - I’ll happily retract my post on episode 1 because it really did pick up from there as the route got more difficult and we learnt more about the participants. It was genius pairing up a celeb with a non-famous close relative - so often these sort of shows just pair up random celebs.

Looking forward to this and the route through Japan and East Asia should be very enjoyable. Shame they didn’t go one step further to cross into Australia, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the celeb version continues the journey.

[TV.Cynic]

Celebrity Race Across The World S2 Official Trailer - BBC

Four celebrities and their loved ones race across the world, from the Amazon to the Andes. No phones or flights allowed. And definitely no VIP treatment! from 14th August.