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Season 10

Twelve teams left Seattle and the route ran through Mongolia, Vietnam, India, Madagascar, and the Mediterranean before turning back toward the finish. CBS held the show in the Sunday hour through the fall, leaning on the post-football lead-in for steady numbers. The casting widens its demographic reach noticeably, and the editing trusts longer legs in unfamiliar geographies. Phil Keoghan paces the pit stops cleanly. A confident production year.

Filmed
Global route, starting Seattle, Washington
Premiered
Sep 17, 2006
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
13
Format
12 teams of 2 · expanded cast
Cast size
24 players
Host
Phil Keoghan
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

A confident year, cleanly run.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #06 slot.

Slot #06 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 10 is the franchise running cleanly inside its own lane. Twelve teams left Seattle and the route ran through Mongolia, Vietnam, India, Madagascar, and the Mediterranean before turning back toward the finish — a stretch of unfamiliar geographies the production lets the legs breathe through. The casting widens its demographic reach in a way the prior runs had not, and the editing trusts the longer legs in those unfamiliar countries to fill the hour without needing extra friction. Phil Keoghan paces the pit stops cleanly. The canon places it sixth because this is what a confident production year looks like end to end.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.