[silent_jonny]

Welcome to the 10th season of
The Amazing Race!

As stated previously, TAR X (like the new Survivor) is being billed as “the most diverse ever”. Okay. But “diverse” doesn’t necessarily equal “entertaining” and with the Race fighting to maintain viewers and win ratings in a questionable new timeslot, this could either be a new beginning for TAR … or another nail in the coffin.

Programming Note

This is once again an “official thread”.

Because of the new timeslot, TAR will be preempted by football every week, meaning that it will NEVER begin at its scheduled time. One week it could start at 8:15 EST; the next week at 9:05 EST. So under these circumstances a live thread would be too confusing.

And to tell you the truth, even if the show wasn’t preempted, I just don’t want to operate a live thread on Sunday night. After a few weeks, CBS might decide to move TAR to another night (I suspect they will—they moved it twice last season). If so, a live thread might be possible then.

Whatever happens, I’ll ping everyone on the day of the show as a reminder and post the CBS recaps on the following morning so everyone will be able to keep up.

[csvset]

Sunday is a poor scheduling decision.

[Veto!]

Thanks for the ping, sj. No problem about the live thread. We on the left coast had no chance to participate anyway -- in fact, had to avoid it.

The new time slot and diversity theme are a turnoff for sure. What are they thinking? Will it be as obnoxious as the family show? Or worse?

I'll try to catch it anyway.

[tob2]

Please put me on the TAR ping list. Not sure I like it's new time slot. Only time will tell.