The Amazing Race 33 | |
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Season 33 | |
Presented by | Phil Keoghan |
No. of teams | 11 |
Winner | Kim & Penn Holderness |
No. of legs | 11 |
Distance traveled | 22,000 mi (35,000 km) |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | January 5 – March 2, 2022 |
Additional information | |
Filming dates | Original: February 22 – February 28, 2020 Resumption: September 19 – October 6, 2021 |
Season chronology | |
The Amazing Race 33 is the thirty-third season of the American reality competition show The Amazing Race . Hosted by Phil Keoghan, it featured eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race around Europe to win US$1,000,000. Though filming started in February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused production to be placed on hold for over a year and a half. The race resumed in September 2021 with most of the original teams and a modified route. This season visited two continents and seven countries and traveled over 22,000 miles (35,000 km) during eleven legs. Starting from the racers homes in the United States, racers traveled through England and Scotland before production was suspended. After reuniting in St. Gallen, racers traveled through Switzerland, France, Greece, and Portugal before returning to the United States and finishing in Greater Los Angeles. An element of the show that returned for this season was having teams start from their homes instead of a centralized location. The season premiered on CBS on January 5, 2022, and the season finale aired on March 2, 2022. [1]
Married internet personalities Kim and Penn Holderness were the winners of this season, [2] while flight attendants Raquel Moore and Cayla Platt finished in second place, and best friends Ryan Ferguson and Dusty Harris finished in third place.
In January 2020, during the winter press tour for the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, California, Amazing Race co-creators and executive producers Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri, who were promoting their new National Geographic show Race to the Center of the Earth , confirmed to Andy Dehnart of Reality Blurred that they would be filming a thirty-third season of The Amazing Race later in the year. [3]
Filming began on February 22, 2020 as usual, after host Phil Keoghan finished filming the first season of Tough as Nails . [4] [5] This season of The Amazing Race started with Keoghan contacting teams at their homes, instructing them to travel to London, and it was expected to conclude in mid-March. [6] [7] [8] However, filming was suspended on February 28 after three legs had been completed in England and Scotland with the contestants and production crew sent home as a precaution due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic. [9] [7] [10] According to van Munster, he contacted CBS after he and his crew arrived in Sweden to film in Lapland, where the fourth leg was to take place, to halt the season due to the dangers of the emerging pandemic. [11] [12] In addition to Sweden, the remainder of the original racecourse prior to production shutdown would have visited Austria, Italy, Vietnam, Thailand, South America, and a first-time visit to Nepal. [11] [13] [14]
After the season was suspended, Phil Keoghan stated that the show intended to resume filming where it had left off, [15] [16] but he also acknowledged that filming could not resume until viral transmissions declined. [17] Kelly Kahl, the President of CBS Entertainment, stated that the show would film "as soon as we can safely get back into production" with the producers working to "plot out a race that sticks to countries that are safe" but acknowledged the difficulties of "literally [having] to navigate some international waters." [18] Kahl also stated that he wasn't aware of any contestants that had dropped out of the season. [19] Keoghan stated a year later that he could not guarantee that every team would be able to return once filming restarted. [20] In April 2021, Mitch Graham, SVP of Alternative Programming, stated that production looked at the option of going to COVID-light countries but that it was unlikely as it would not lead to the same experience of traveling the globe. [21] The following month, the creators of the show stated that they have plans to resume filming the season once they can assure team safety with mass vaccinations in target travel locations. [22] [23] Kahl stated that he hoped to have the season air in the midseason of the 2021–22 television season provided that enough countries open up in the coming months to film the remaining legs. [24] In an interview with Gold Derby in June 2021, Keoghan stated that a plan to film safely had been established. [25]
In September 2021, Thom Sherman, the Senior Executive Vice President, Programming, CBS Entertainment, announced at the Television Critics Association that the show was in pre-production and would return for the 2021–22 television season. [26] In order to restart the season, production chartered an Amazing Race-branded Titan Airways Boeing 757 for subsequent travel by teams and crew, which included four COVID testing teams, to reduce infection risk. [7] To account for common travel on the chartered jet, teams were released from the charter plane in a number of groups, with those who had checked in at the previous Pit Stop earlier able to start the next leg earlier. [27] Keoghan said that the use of a chartered jet was something they had considered previously as it would have eliminated problems with airports, and in this season, they at times did not inform the racers where their next destination was until they landed. [28] New tasks were developed with social distancing in mind, with preference for outdoor activities rather than crowded indoor ones. Teams were still made to rely on either their own driving or using public transportation where production affirmed that drivers took COVID precautions. [29]
Racers traveled to Switzerland and resumed racing on September 19, 2021, after 1 year, 6 months, and 22 days (nearly nineteen months). [30] [31] [7] The remaining legs after Scotland were altered to have travel proceed through locations with the lowest COVID-19 rates: Zürich, Lugano, Corsica, Halkidiki, Thessaloniki, and Lisbon before returning to Los Angeles. [7] [32] [33] However, four teams were unable to return after production resumed due to extenuating circumstances: Anthony was unable to return due to work; Caro & Ray had broken up during the hiatus and Caro's work visa had expired, meaning she was unable to return to the United States due to travel restrictions against non-U.S. citizens; Connie and Sam were expecting a child when the restart was planned; and Taylor was on bereavement following the death of his brother from COVID-19 which had occurred shortly before the planned restart. [34] [35] Two teams that had been originally eliminated before the production shutdown, Michael & Moe and Arun & Natalia, were brought back to the competition. [33] [36] Filming of the season wrapped in October. [37] [38]
This season saw Jesse Tannenbaum, who was recently promoted to casting director of Survivor starting with Island of the Idols , become the show's new casting director, a role he previously held during season 29 and season 30, [39] after Lynne Spillman's contract with CBS expired in 2018. [40] [41] The cast was announced by CBS on December 10, 2021. [7]
The cast included Love Island season 1 couple Caro Viehweg and Ray Gantt; [42] married internet personalities Kim and Penn Holderness; [43] Buffalo Singing Cops duo Michael Norwood and Moe Badger; [44] 2015 Thalys train attack heroes Anthony Sadler and Spencer Stone; and Ryan Ferguson, who spent ten years in prison after being wrongfully convicted. [45]
Contestants | Age | Relationship | Hometown | Status |
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Michael Norwood | Returned to competition | Eliminated 1st (in London, England) | ||
Moe Badger | ||||
Arun Kumar | Eliminated 2nd (in Glasgow, Scotland) | |||
Natalia Kumar | ||||
Taylor Green-Jones | 38 | Married | Fort Worth, Texas | Unable to return to competition |
Isaiah Green-Jones | 31 | Portland, Oregon | ||
Caro Viehweg | 23 | Dating | Los Angeles, California | |
Ray Gantt | 25 | Lakewood, New Jersey | ||
Connie Greiner | 37 | Married | Newport News, Virginia | |
Sam Greiner | 39 | Charlotte, North Carolina | ||
Anthony Sadler | 29 | Childhood Friends | Sacramento, California | |
Spencer Stone | 29 | |||
Michael Norwood | 36 | Singing Police Officers | Buffalo, New York | Eliminated 3rd (in Altstätten, Switzerland) |
Moe Badger | 42 | |||
Akbar Cook Sr. | 45 | Married Educators | Newark, New Jersey | Eliminated 4th (in Giuncaggio, France) |
Sheri Cook | 44 | Havana, Florida | ||
Lulu Gonzalez | 37 | Twins & Radio Hosts | North Bergen, New Jersey | Eliminated 5th (in Nea Kallikrateia, Greece) |
Lala Gonzalez | 37 | |||
Arun Kumar | 56 | Father & Daughter | Detroit, Michigan | Eliminated 6th (in Cabo Espichel, Portugal) |
Natalia Kumar | 28 | |||
Ryan Ferguson | 37 | Best Friends | Manhattan, New York | Third place |
Dusty Harris | 38 | Columbia, Missouri | ||
Raquel Moore | 31 | Flight Attendants | Chicago, Illinois | Runners-up |
Cayla Platt | 30 | Gulf Breeze, Florida | ||
Kim Holderness | 45 | Married | Sarasota, Florida | Winners |
Penn Holderness | 47 | Durham, North Carolina |
In 2022, Caro Viehweg and Ray Gantt appeared on the fifth season of MTV's Ex on the Beach . [46] Cayla Platt competed on the first season of The Challenge: USA . [47] Dusty Harris competed on the second season of The Challenge: USA. [48] In 2023, Gantt competed on Love Island Games . [49] Lulu and Lala Gonzalez competed on Raid the Cage . [50]
The following teams are listed with their placements in each leg. Placements are listed in finishing order. Note that the race was suspended at the end of leg 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed a year-and-a-half later.
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |
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Kim & Penn | 4th | 5th | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | |
Raquel & Cayla | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
Ryan & Dusty | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th‡ | 3rd | 3rd | |
Arun & Natalia | 9th | 3rd | 10th† | 6th [lower-alpha 1] | 6th‡ | 4th | 5th‡ | 4th | 3rd | 4th† | ||
Lulu & Lala | 10th | 10th [lower-alpha 2] | 7th | 4th | 2nd | 5th | 4th | 5th† [lower-alpha 3] | ||||
Akbar & Sheri | 6th | 8th | 9th | 5th | 5th | 6th† | ||||||
Michael & Moe | 11th† | 7th† [lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||
Anthony & Spencer | 1st | 7th | 3rd [lower-alpha 1] | |||||||||
Connie & Sam | 7th | 2nd | 4th [lower-alpha 1] | |||||||||
Caro & Ray | 5th | 6th | 5th [lower-alpha 1] | |||||||||
Taylor & Isaiah | 8th | 9th | 8th [lower-alpha 1] |
Destinations | Air travel Rail travel Water travel Bus travel Helicopter travel Bicycle travel Gondola travel |
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Route Markers | Detour Roadblock Speed Bump Pit Stop |
Question | Answer |
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You were greeted at the pit stop with these words | We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. |
This mode of transportation took you the rest of the way | Corte cars |
You found this under a rock | Gold coin |
It went this far up | 8000 ft elevation |
It fell out as well | Red & yellow piñata candies |
He greeted you with a smile and a drink | Bonifacio Pit Stop greeter Stefan |
Under this, he pointed the way | Napoleon Bonaparte with a bicorne |
He joined you throughout the leg | Travelocity Roaming Gnome |
You checked in here | Parco Ciani |
You painted this | Setúbal door |
Something you had to eat | Souvlaki |
You took this to Number 10 | Setúbal rowboat |
It's plated correctly | Dolmades |
The Amazing Race 33 received mixed-to-positive reviews. Andy Dehnart of reality blurred wrote that "The Amazing Race 33 was a great season overall. Even with some very thin legs, it felt to me like a throwback to earlier seasons, especially with the post-restart season not having any U-Turns or Yields." [55] Sage Negron of Comic Book Resources wrote that "Season 33 ended up being one of the show's stronger outings." [56] Sandy Casanova of Hidden Remote called it "another amazing season". [57] Dustin Rowles of Pajiba called it "a strange and almost surreal season of The Amazing Race." [58] Denton Davidson of Gold Derby wrote that he "loved most of the cast, but the pandemic and changes it caused this race really hurt the season overall." [59] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the season was "generally muted and limited challenge-wise" due to the pandemic. [60] In 2024, Rhenn Taguiam of Game Rant placed this season within the bottom 13 out of 36. [61]
No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) | Ref. |
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1–2 | "We're Back!" / "It Can't Be That Easy" | January 5, 2022 | 0.7 | 4.40 | 0.4 | 1.58 | 1.1 | 5.97 | [62] [63] |
3 | "Who Has This One in the Bag?" | January 12, 2022 | 0.5 | 3.49 | 0.5 | 1.98 | 1.0 | 5.48 | [64] [63] |
4 | "Ready to Restart the Race" | January 19, 2022 | 0.7 | 3.66 | — | — | — | — | [65] |
5 | "Stairway to Hell" | January 26, 2022 | 0.6 | 3.93 | 0.5 | 1.89 | 1.1 | 5.81 | [66] [63] |
6 | "Say Cheese" | February 2, 2022 | 0.6 | 3.76 | 0.5 | 1.72 | 1.1 | 5.48 | [67] [63] |
7 | "Gently Down the Stream" | February 9, 2022 | 0.6 | 2.97 | 0.4 | 1.75 | 1.0 | 4.72 | [68] [63] |
8 | "Souvlaki" | February 16, 2022 | 0.5 | 3.17 | 0.4 | 1.74 | 0.9 | 4.91 | [69] [63] |
9 | "Rock Bottom" | February 23, 2022 | 0.5 | 3.28 | 0.5 | 1.76 | 1.0 | 5.05 | [70] [63] |
10–11 | "No Room For Error" / "In the Hands of the Amazing Race Gods" | March 2, 2022 | 0.7 | 3.97 | 0.3 | 1.73 | 1.0 | 5.71 | [71] [63] |
Canadian broadcaster CTV also aired The Amazing Race on Wednesdays. Canadian DVR ratings are included in Numeris's count.
No. | Air date | Episode | Viewers (millions) | Rank (Week) | Ref |
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1-2 | January 5, 2022 | "We're Back!" / "It Can't Be That Easy" | 1.48 | 7 | [72] |
3 | January 12, 2022 | "Who Has This One in the Bag?" | 1.28 | 9 | [73] |
4 | January 19, 2022 | "Ready to Restart the Race" | 1.49 | 5 | [74] |
5 | January 26, 2022 | "Stairway to Hell" | 1.35 | 8 | [75] |
6 | February 2, 2022 | "Say Cheese" | 1.20 | 8 | [76] |
7 | February 9, 2022 | "Gently Down the Stream" | 1.24 | 9 | [77] |
8 | February 16, 2022 | "Souvlaki" | 1.28 | 5 | [78] |
9 | February 23, 2022 | "Rock Bottom" | 1.28 | 11 | [79] |
10-11 | March 2, 2022 | "No Room For Error" / "In the Hands of the Amazing Race Gods" | 1.34 | 8 | [80] |
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It was October 6 we shot that finale episode.
They cut out a task. So, I think they cut it out because the order didn't really change too much. We had to climb the Orbit Tower.