TAR co-creators Bertram Van Munster and wife Elise Doganieri are hopeful the show can restart filming season 33 soon. From Deadline:
Van Munster is confident that he’s figured out how to get the show back up and running and Doganieri said they’re aware of the demand from fans to get back out there. “We’ve been talking to CBS and they want to get back,” she said. “We just need to get that mass vaccinations happening. Safety is key, you don’t want to do a show and have people get sick, That’s our priority.”
Bring them to Australia and New Zealand. Get everyone to quarantine for the required two weeks and then they can run the race in a relatively covid-free environment. At least in Australia we’ve already got some of the challenges sorted after our own version.
Season 33, which was delayed for 18 months due to COVID-19 pandemic, will premiere in the US on January 5 next year. Filming has been completed and is now in post-production.
The first episode is two hours long, subsequent episodes will be one hour.
I wonder how they managed this, especially seeing that the borders of most countries are just starting to open up now. Perhaps the back end of filming was done locally?
It was apparently filmed in September 2021. There was an Amazing Race branded plane spotted at LAX airport in September too, so it seems like possibly all the teams will travel between countries together on the same plane and flight. I’m sure there were some specific locations chosen due to lack of quarantine requirements.
Just did some googling on potential locations below:
There only seem to be 3-4 leaked locations and they are all in the UK or Europe. So possibly they’ve just picked some UK/European countries that they could do and will do 2-3 legs in each location.
How would the crew have managed the departure of eliminated teams? Did they travel on the same plane or just take the normal commercial flight back to USA?
I assume they would have made their own way home on a commercial flight after being eliminated. The private plane was likely for the current cast and crew to more safely get around and into/out of each location without needing commercial flights.
In past seasons the eliminated teams are sequestered with some of the other eliminated teams to prevent leaks that could reveal the final three. Not sure whether they’d do this during covid though.
Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri have described to Variety the massive efforts (and precautionary measures) to film the latest season of TAR. Includes some spoilers such as the route.
UPDATE: CBS revealed the 11 teams taking part in the new season yesterday (Friday US time).
Variety has an exclusive first look at the opening five minutes of the two-hour premiere episode of season 33, which starts next Wednesday, January 5 (January 6 in Australia).
Seven’s Director of Scheduling Brook Hall has told TV Tonight that the new season will air in Q1 after the Winter Olympics “in primetime with double eps to catch up”.
