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Aired winter–spring 2011 · All-returnee cast

Unfinished Business

The franchise's second full returnee outing, four years after All-Stars. Eleven teams from prior seasons came back to take another swing at the route, with the editing room leaning into the histories the audience already had with them.

Filmed
Global route, starting Palm Springs, California, finishing in Miami, Florida
Premiered
Feb 20, 2011
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
Returnees · 11 teams
Cast size
22 players
11 returning teams
Host
Phil Keoghan
eighteenth season at the helm
On this page5 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04Adjacent in the canon
  5. 05Also appears in
01The take

History re-tested, years later.

A second test of the all-stars argument — the template re-pressured by a different generation of returnees.
02The shape of the season

Second returnee outing, eleven teams.

The franchise's second full returnee outing, four years after All-Stars. Eleven teams from prior seasons came back to a spring route through Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, India, and Brazil before finishing in Miami. CBS held the Sunday hour and the editing leaned hard into the histories the audience already had with the field. Phil Keoghan hosts a returnee season that re-tests the all-stars template against a different generation of teams.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #14 slot.

Slot #14 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Unfinished Business is the franchise's second full returnee outing, four years after All-Stars set the template. Eleven teams from prior seasons came back to a spring route through Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, India, and Brazil before finishing in Miami. CBS held the Sunday hour and the editing leaned hard into the histories the audience already had with the field — the kind of confessional weight only race veterans can produce. Phil Keoghan hosts the format re-pressured by a different generation of returnees. The canon places it fourteenth because the season earns its argument even where the original All-Stars argument lands harder.

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05Also appears in

Cross-references.