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 relationships 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