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7:30pm Sunday, February 28 on TV2

This week on The Amazing Race, the racers travel to Transylvania where they go in search of buried coffins and their next clue.

Nine teams remain as they travel from Salzburg, Austria via Munich, Germany to Romania, the fabled home of vampires. Once in the area formerly known as Transylvania, they must search out buried coffins and break through chains to access their next clue.

Meanwhile, one of the Race's frontrunners finds themselves staring down elimination after an unexpected detour.

Wow.  The 14th season of the Amazing Race started on TV2 tonight.  11 more teams racing around the world trying not to get themselves eliminated and ultimately walk away with the million dollar prize.

While New Zealand sat down to watch the fourteenth season of the eight Prime Time Emmy Award winning show, America is about to premiere the 16th season of the show.  Yes, this season that TV2 are just starting to show now began airing on the 15th of February 2009 and a second season, number 15, finished on the 6th of December 2009.

Two whole seasons behind?  Are you serious?  It's bad enough that we're made to wait nearly five months for shows like Flashforward, but two entire seasons?

Ok, so perhaps no one really cares.  Perhaps TV viewership is at it's highest level ever and therefore it doesn't matter how long you make people wait because you can still put it on on a Sunday night and it will rate.  Right?

7:30pm Sunday, February 14 on TV2

The world's toughest race is back on TV2, as the brand new season of The Amazing Race premieres tonight.

Hosted by New Zealand-born action man Phil Keoghan, this year promises to be one of the most gruelling courses ever assembled, spanning 40,000 miles and nine countries, which the contestants must navigate in just 22 days. The teams will be faced with a multitude of extremes, including the world's second tallest bungee jump, bone-chilling Siberian temperatures and suffocating heat in India, as well as an Olympic-sized challenge that leaves the teams gasping for air.

Sunday 5 July, 7.30pm

The final three teams are battling in out in the final leg for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at one million dollars, in tonight’s season finale of The Amazing Race.

Having travelled more than 30,000 miles, five continents, and countless hours racing around the globe, it's now down to the final leg for the three remaining teams, who will sprint to the finish line in Portland, Oregon, with the first team to reach the end winning one million dollars.

Sunday 14 June, 7.30pm

For the first time in the history of The Amazing Race, teams travel to Kazakhstan where a roadblock with over 30,000 chickens awaits, and one team makes a risky move that could prove to be either a game changer or the end of the road.

Setting out from their Pit Stop at Humayun's Tomb in Old Delhi, India, the remaining teams receive a clue instructing them to fly to Kazakhstan where they must find a chicken factory. The teams scramble madly for flights, with the potential to make up time on their competitors, but their efforts are in vain when all teams make the 7 A.M. opening time for the leg's first task.

Sunday 17 May, 7.30pm

Continuing with its New Zealand leg of the trip this week, The Amazing Race sees the seven remaining teams travel from Te Puke to Siem Reap, Cambodia, a first for the series.

Challenged to race across five continents in 23 days, covering over 30,000 miles, the teams must complete tasks in the Tauranga region, in some locations familiar to viewers.

Not all goes smoothly though, as one team find themselves in trouble with the law on the way to the airport, and another team's catty behaviour grates on the nerves of some other teams.

The Amazing Race  Sunday 10 May, 7.30pm

Auckland gets a taste of the action this week with The Amazing Race making its way to our shores for some more thrilling challenges.

This leg of the race is also special for host Phil Keoghan bringing him back to his birth country, which he is always proud to show the world. Keep watch for all the familiar places as the teams steer their way round the city, facing challenges from a slew of Maori warriors performing a haka. While navigating a tricky detour, one racer takes a hard fall and injures her arm with fears it is broken, while another team struggles to keep their relationship intact.

From Auckland teams have to get to Tauranga where a special New Zealander is waiting to welcome them to Phil's New Zealand.

This week on the Amazing Race, they come to NZ. Be watching