The Amazing Race Asia Returning for Season Five

SINGAPORE: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Networks, Asia is bringing back The Amazing Race Asia for a fifth season.

AXN was home to the previous four seasons, with the most recent edition concluding in 2010, and will now air season five. The show will debut in its fifth run on AXN in late 2016. Ten teams chosen from across the Asia-Pacific region will compete in a dash around the world for a chance at the winning crown and $100,000 in cash.

Virginia Lim, the VP and head of content and marketing for SPT Networks, Asia, said: “High-quality original productions like The Amazing Race Asia are the cornerstone of our programming strategy. The U.S. version continues to be one of our most popular series on AXN, so it was important to find a way to reignite our beloved Asian adaptation.”

“The Amazing Race Asia has been a successful format around the region bringing compelling quality content recreated in a locally relevant manner for audiences here,” said Mark Chan, the head of Disney Media Distribution at The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia. “We are excited to work with SPT Networks to bring back this highly rated reality series and to deliver it in a very engaging platform for fans.”