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The Amazing Race Heads to Israel
CANNES, April 8: Disney-ABC International Television has licensed its Emmy
Award-winning format The Amazing Race to Reshet in Israel, for a local
version to be produced across Asia later this year.
The new version will see contestants from Israel divided into teams of two
people with a variety of relation****ps to be filmed around the clock in a
race to various destinations across Asia. At each destination, the teams
will have to compete in a series of challenges-some mental and some
physical-and only when the tasks have been completed will they learn their
next destination. The teams who are farthest behind will continue to get
eliminated as the contest progresses, and the first team to arrive at the
final destination wins a large cash prize.
Tom Toumazis, the executive VP and managing director for Disney-ABC
International Television for EMEA and Canada, commented: "The format of
The
Amazing Race has seen great success in the U.S. and Asia-the high-octane
excitement and 'fish out of water' comedy of the series has held universal
appeal for viewers. We are looking forward to seeing an action-packed
contest between contestants from Israel, across Asia."
Amir Maori, Reshet's executive VP of programming, said: "We are very
excited
to be a part of one of the most successful reality brands in worldwide
television and we are looking forward to bringing Israeli audiences the
greatest show ever produced in Israel."
-By Kristin Brzoznowski
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