Cannonball Run 2001

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Cannonball Run 2001
Genre Reality
Written by James Eagan
Seth Margolin
Directed by Rick Telles
Presented by Krista Herman
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes5
Production
Running time60 minutes
Production companies Brass Ring Entertainment
GRB Entertainment
Original release
Network USA Network
ReleaseAugust 5 (2001-08-05) 
September 2, 2001 (2001-09-02)

Cannonball Run 2001: Race Across America or known simply as Cannonball Run 2001, is an American reality television series that was broadcast on the USA Network from August 5 to September 2, 2001. [1] It was inspired by the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an outlaw road race of the 1970s which was the source for the famous 1981 film The Cannonball Run and its sequel, Cannonball Run II (1984). The show featured a series of five location-specific challenges along a New York-to-Los Angeles course, as in the original race. [2]

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Development of the series started without the participation of Brock Yates, organizer of the original Cannonball and holder of the trademark; indeed, the production company paid Yates for the use of the name just before the show debuted. Yates was not pleased with the series, as he felt it was fake and staged.

In 2005, Yates teamed up with a Cannonball driver and film producer J Sanchez to produce a more authentic reality series called Cannonball: This Is Reality to run alongside the actual One Lap of America race. The project was shelved in 2006 due to lack of interest from networks.

Episode status

In 2023, New York-based film and television studio FilmRise acquired the digital distribution and AVOD rights to the show, so it is made available for streaming online on their app and its partners, The Roku Channel, Tubi and Amazon Prime Video and its sister AVOD service, Amazon Freevee. [3] [4] [5]

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References

  1. "Remember Cannonball Run? Nobody else seems to". Reality Blurred. April 11, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
  2. "USA's Cannonball Run 2001". Variety . August 1, 2001. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  3. "Watch Cannonball Run 2001: Race Against America (2001) for Free Online". The Roku Channel. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  4. "Watch Cannonball Run 2001". Tubi. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
  5. "Cannonball Run 2001". Amazon Prime Video. Retrieved March 10, 2024.