On the eve of the series’ 9th season finale, CTV announced Tuesday in Toronto that The Amazing Race Canada will be back in 2024 for a 10th season. The coast-to-coast adventure series, hosted by Jon Montgomery, once again dominated Canada’s summer TV ratings. The series emerges as the top-rated Canadian program for the 2022-23 broadcast
In Tuesday night’s Ninth season premiere, the ten teams take off from the starting line in Winnipeg, Man. First stop is Calgary and on and on across Canada. But why is the episode titled, “I Hate Pancakes?” Who hates pancakes?? It was still a bit wintery last April/May when the race was run. There’s snow
My family has had a summer cottage on the Bruce Peninsula since before I was born. Earlier this summer, I walked into Lloyd’s Smoke Shop on the main drag of Wiarton, Ont., “gateway to the Bruce,” wearing an Amazing Race Canada T-shirt. It was a bit of swag handed out a few years back when
After being parked two years as it waited out the pandemic, The Amazing Race Canada roared back as Canada’s most-watched summer series on broadcast network television. According to Numeris’ Live+7 tally of the Season 8 premiere, close to 1.7 million Canadians got back into the Race. That was close to a half a million more
After a two year delay, The Amazing Race Canada is finally back on the starting line. Host Jon Montgomery returns and shares his thoughts with Season 8 set to kick off Tuesday, July 5 on CTV. Jon’s love of Canada is genuine and infectious as you can hear on this podcast episode. The Olympic gold medalist addresses
UPDATE: The Amazing Race Canada — the nation’s most-watched summer series for a half-dozen years prior to the pandemic — will return to CTV this summer. The globe trotting TV competition, hosted by Canadian Olympian Jon Montgomery, has been left at the starting gate since 2019 due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Producers vowed to
My mobile device keeps reminding me about the No. 1 summer show in Canada for seven straight years — The Amazing Race Canada. The series, from Insight Productions, was an automatic two million-a-week draw for CTV. As a reporter, I was very fortunate to attend several legs of the race, including trips to Vietnam, China,
It should come as no surprise that the No. 1 TV draw of the past seven summers — The Amazing Race Canada — has been put on hold. The COVID-19 pandemic is the ultimate road block. This very month, ten new teams from across Canada should be scrambling in and out of airports, taxis, hotels