Underplayed Gems

Amazing Race (2012)

Amazing Race poster
Original title
Amazing Race : La plus grande course autour du monde!
Genre
reality television
Country
France
Length
1 season, 10 episodes
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Teams of two race around the world performing tasks and solving clues. The last team to arrive at each stop gets eliminated. The first team to reach the final destination wins a cash prize.

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What happens

Amazing Race : la plus grande course autour du monde ! (English: Amazing Race: the biggest race around the world!) is a French reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race. Following the premise of other versions in the Amazing Race franchise, the show follows nine teams of two as they race around the world. The show was split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, perform physical and mental challenges, and travel by air, boat, car, taxi, and other modes of transport. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs for being the last to arrive at designated Pit Stops. The first team to arrive at the Finish Line wins a grand prize of €50,000. The show was hosted by Alexandre Delpérier, produced by Shine France for CBS Studios International and in association with ABC Studios (a division of The Walt Disney Company), distributed by The Walt Disney Company France and broadcast on D8. Starting in Paris, teams traveled through the United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Japan, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa before returning to France and finishing in the Paris Region. The finale aired on 24 December 2012 with cyber-friends Anthony Martinage and Sonja Sacha as the winners, while childhood friends Hadj Semara and Yacim Djabali finished second, and surfers Stéphanie François and Alice Digne finished third. D8 began airing the season on Monday 22 October 2012, and D17 on Tuesday 23 October 2012, both at 8:50 p.m. CEST (UST+2) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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