The Amazing Race (Latin American TV series)
| The Amazing Race | |
|---|---|
Title card from the Space broadcasts | |
| Genre | Reality competition |
| Created by | Elise Doganieri Bertram van Munster |
| Based on | |
| Directed by | Marco Colantoni |
| Presented by | Harris Whitbeck (2009-2011) Paulo Zulu (2012) Toya Montoya (2013-2014) Jaime Arellano (2014) |
| Theme music composer | John M. Keane |
| Country of origin | Latin America |
| Original languages | Spanish and Portuguese |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 78 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Leonardo Alanguibel, Fernando Barbosa, Ángel Zambrano, Mariano César, Gerardo Kerik, Jose V Scheuren, María Barrios |
| Producers | Melyna Deluchi, Mimi Bejarano, Gabriela Núñez |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | Disney Media Networks Latin America Turner Latin America RGB (2009) Cinemat (2010-2013) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Discovery Latin America (2009-2010) Space (2011-2014) TC Televisión (2014) |
| Release | 20 September 2009 – 28 December 2014 |
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The Amazing Race, formerly known as The Amazing Race en Discovery Channel (Portuguese: The Amazing Race no Discovery Channel), is a Latin American reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race. Following the premise of other versions in the Amazing Race franchise, the show follows teams of two as they race across Latin America. Each season is split into legs, with teams tasked to deduce clues, navigate themselves in foreign areas, interact with locals, perform physical and mental challenges, and travel by air, boat, car, taxi, and other modes of transport. Teams are progressively eliminated at the end of most legs for being the last to arrive at designated Pit Stops. The first team to arrive at the Finish Line wins the grand prize of US$250,000 (seasons 1-5) or US$100,000 (season 6).
On 15 October 2008, a Latin American version of the show was announced by Discovery Channel Latin America in association with Disney. The first season was produced by Argentinian television production company RGB with the subsequent seasons produced by Miami-based television company Cinemat. On 25 January 2011, it was announced that Space in association with Disney was going to produce the third season of the Latin American version of the race, thus retitling the show to The Amazing Race, dropping the en Discovery Channel.
The show is the second Latin American version of the franchise. The first was The Amazing Race: A Corrida Milionária, the Brazilian version of the franchise. It was also the first version in the Spanish language.
The original presenter for the show was Guatemalan journalist Harris Whitbeck who presented the first three seasons. For the fourth season, a special Portuguese-language edition of the show, Edição Brasil, was made. It was hosted by Brazilian model and actor Paulo Zulu. It featured teams from Brazil in a race mostly concentrated across Brazil. For the fifth and sixth season, the show was presented by Colombian model María "Toya" Montoya, a former contestant on the third season. She was also the first female host of any version of The Amazing Race. For the sixth season, Jaime Arellano joined Montoya as a co-host.