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Season 23

Eleven teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg autumn route through Chile, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Abu Dhabi, Indonesia, and Japan before an Alaskan finish line. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production delivered the closing run before the franchise's next pivot — the show running the format on muscle memory across familiar geographies and a few sharper detours. The casting leans on partner pairs and dating couples. Phil Keoghan paces the season at its established cadence.

Filmed
Global route, starting Los Angeles, California, finishing in Alaska
Premiered
Sep 29, 2013
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

The calm before the pivot.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #32 slot.

Slot #32 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 23 is the closing run before the franchise's next pivot. Eleven teams left Los Angeles into a twelve-leg autumn route through Chile, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Abu Dhabi, Indonesia, and Japan before an Alaskan finish line. CBS held the Sunday hour and the production delivered a season the audience could watch in muscle memory — familiar geographies, a few sharper detours, and the franchise visibly waiting for the structural tweak it would land in the next outing. The casting leans on partner pairs and dating couples. Phil Keoghan paces the cadence. The canon places it thirty-second because the season closes the late-classic run cleanly.

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04In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

The Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #32