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ShowsThe Amazing RaceSeason 17

Season 17

Eleven teams left Boston into a twelve-leg autumn route through England, Ghana, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Bangladesh, and Hong Kong. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production delivered the kind of polished late-classic outing the franchise had earned the right to make — longer legs in fewer countries, the editing room trusting the geography to fill the hour. The casting widens its demographic reach again. Phil Keoghan hosts the format running cleanly on rails.

Filmed
Global route, starting Boston, Massachusetts
Premiered
Sep 26, 2010
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
11 teams of 2 · standard
Cast size
22 players
11 teams of 2
Host
Phil Keoghan
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04In this canon
01The take

Polish without a new argument.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #18 slot.

Slot #18 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 17 is the late-classic franchise on full polish. Eleven teams left Boston into a twelve-leg autumn route through England, Ghana, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Bangladesh, and Hong Kong. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production delivered the kind of season the show had earned the right to make — longer legs in fewer countries, the editing room trusting the geography to fill the hour without leaning on manufactured friction. The casting widens its demographic reach again. Phil Keoghan hosts the format running cleanly on rails. The canon places it eighteenth because the season is polished across every leg without making a distinct format-historical argument.

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04In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

The Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #18