http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/06/amazing_race_keeps_it_fresh.php
If you are looking for a sure thing when the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards
nominations are announced, bet on "The Amazing Race" being one of five in
the reality-competition programming category. In the five years in which
this Emmy has been awarded, "The Amazing Race" has won it every time. And
when they added the category of host for this type of programming last year,
"The Amazing Race's" Phil Keoghan was the winner.
With those facts in mind, Mr. Keoghan would have the right to be pretty
confident about the Emmy nominations, but he's not. "I hope we're still
included in the nominations. I think we've maintained the same standard," he
said. "In fact, I feel like last season we actually went up a notch from
where we were before."
Last season was the 12th edition of "The Amazing Race," and it was good
enough to warrant CBS ordering two more seasons, for fall 2008 and spring
2009.
What made 2007 so strong? "We had some new people come into the production
and we went to new countries, and there's an energy and an enthusiasm that
comes to our show and keeps it fresh," said Mr. Keoghan.
