The host explains how they managed to film a race around the world in a pandemic.
Now, a season almost two full years in the making is finally coming to our TV screens tonight.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You all shut down after the third leg of the race on Feb. 28, 2020.
Phil Keoghan on ‘The Amazing Race’.Michele Crowe/CBS
Before we get into picking things back up, what was the shutdown like?
Come back and you could be like Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton."
Do we really have to stop?
Phil Keoghan on ‘The Amazing Race’.Michele Crowe/CBS
We’re really enjoying this race."
And it was difficult as well because people have made sacrifices taking time off work.
Some people are in a transition.
Phil Keoghan on ‘The Amazing Race’.Michele Crowe/CBS
So it was tough.
In hindsight, yes, we did make the right decision.
That’s our number one priority, not just the cast, but people who make the show.
Can we guarantee that we are going to get them home safely?
Alliances in general have not been a thing on our show.
That was a real anomaly what happened in season 32.
But, for the most part, you just don’t get that.
But hey, we’ve all been through a challenging time, you know what I’m saying?
So yeah, of course they connected.
They had this challenging period that they’ve all lived through.
And it was sort of surreal.
It felt so familiar and yet so foreign at the same time.
How much will the show get into what the teams were up to during the downtime?
And then from an audience point of view, that 19 months just gets lifted out.
So yeah, there’s an acknowledgement of what everybody has been through because we have to.
You know, the line I said from season 1, “The world is waiting for you.”
It wasn’t waiting for us when COVID broke out anymore, it was definitely not waiting for us.
So coming back to the start this time it was, “I have some great news for you.
The world is waiting for you once again.
And we’re going to finish this race.”
So how much did COVID dictatewhereyou guys could go once you picked back up?
That’s a big part of the show that I’m sure you guys had to rethink.
So tell me about how transportation and getting around is going to be different.
And that was for all of us.
And it added another layer to the race that we haven’t had before.
And so it was sort of like a mystery tour!
So we just adjusted it.
We put together a great course, and we ended up with a fantastic finish to the season.
