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Season 12

Eleven teams left Los Angeles in November, and the route ran through Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, Burkina Faso, and the Taiwan corridor. The writers' strike disrupted the broader CBS schedule that winter, which compressed the airing window and tightened the production calendar. The casting leans toward dating couples and the editing keeps a brisk twelve-leg cadence. Phil Keoghan works the hand-offs with the franchise's full muscle memory.

Filmed
Global route, starting Los Angeles, California
Premiered
Nov 4, 2007
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
11 teams of 2 · standard
Cast size
22 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 brisk run under pressure.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #12 slot.

Slot #12 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 12 is the writers'-strike outing. Eleven teams left Los Angeles in November of 2007 and the route ran through Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, Burkina Faso, and the Taiwan corridor. The broader strike disrupted the CBS schedule that winter, which compressed the airing window and tightened the production calendar in ways the editing room could not fully absorb. The casting leans toward dating couples and the show keeps its brisk twelve-leg cadence. Phil Keoghan works the hand-offs with the franchise's muscle memory. The canon places it twelfth because the season is competent but its production context is more interesting than the hour itself.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

The schedule didn't ask permissionlist · 12 entriesWhen scripted television went dark, these seasons kept filminglist · 17 entriesThe Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #12