The Amazing Race (American TV series)

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The Amazing Race
Genre	Reality competition
Created by	Elise Doganieri Bertram van Munster
Presented by	Phil Keoghan
Starring	The Amazing Race contestants
Theme music composer	John M. Keane
Composers	Lee Sanders Christopher Franke Vaughn Johnson Devin Powers Thomas Morse John M. Keane Nate Fenwick Smith Stu Goldberg Jason Greenberg Eric Hester
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	37
No. of episodes	430 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Jerry Bruckheimer Phil Keoghan Bertram van Munster Jonathan Littman Elise Doganieri Mark Vertullo
Production location	See below
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	43–86 minutes
Production companies	Jerry Bruckheimer Television Earthview, inc. Worldrace Productions Amazing Race Productions CBS Studios[note 1] 20th Television[note 2]
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 5, 2001 (2001-09-05) – present
Related
International versions
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The Amazing Race is an American reality competition show in which teams of two race around the world (except the Family Edition which featured 10 teams of four and was contested entirely within North and Central America). Each season is split into legs, with each leg requiring teams to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, perform physical and mental challenges, and travel by airplane, boat, taxi, and other public transportation options on a limited budget provided by the show. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs, while the first team to arrive at the end of the final leg wins the grand prize of US$1 million. As the original version of the Amazing Race franchise, the CBS program has been running since September 5, 2001. Numerous international versions have been developed following the same core structure, while the American version is also broadcast to several other countries.

The show was created by Elise Doganieri and Bertram van Munster, who, along with Jonathan Littman, serve as executive producers. The show is produced by Earthview Inc. (headed by Doganieri and van Munster), Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS Studios and 20th Television (divisions of Paramount Global and The Walt Disney Company, respectively). The series has been hosted by veteran New Zealand television personality Phil Keoghan since its premiere.

Since the inception of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program in 2003, The Amazing Race has won ten out of nineteen times; the show has also won other awards and commendations. Although it has moved around several prime time slots, the program has averaged about 10 million viewers per season.^[1]

In May 2025, the series was renewed for a thirty-eighth season, continuing with 90-minute episodes.^[2]

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