We've had various attempts to do an Amazing Race style program over the years instead of actually taking on the American franchise. This is the latest one and it just makes you wish that our audience knew what they were missing. The backstories can get annoying, the totally unexplained sight seeing sections (even though it's meant to be a race). The nearest you get to challenges are them doing local jobs to get money, but these are normally very boring to look at.
I expect some teams are told they have to go a different route for variety, or to visit particular attractions so they can get good camera shots. It feels so manipulated and there's hardly any tension in most legs. There aren't many episodes and there's few teams. They should trust the British public to be able to cope with a more competitive and tense and exciting format. Lost from 2001 was a more interesting version of this kind of race, and with more daring casting. But best of all would be to just do an Amazing Race.
I expect some teams are told they have to go a different route for variety, or to visit particular attractions so they can get good camera shots. It feels so manipulated and there's hardly any tension in most legs. There aren't many episodes and there's few teams. They should trust the British public to be able to cope with a more competitive and tense and exciting format. Lost from 2001 was a more interesting version of this kind of race, and with more daring casting. But best of all would be to just do an Amazing Race.