Ten to bring back The Amazing Race Australia, hosted by Beau Ryan
After much speculation, Ten has finally named the last franchise it will be adding to its 2019 slate. The Amazing Race Australia will return to screens after a five-year break, hosted by Beau Ryan.
Earlier this year at their mid-year upfronts, Ten’s chief content officer Beverley McGarvey revealed that there would be one more franchise added to the slate for 2019, but that contract negotiations had slowed the announcement process.
The Amazing Race Australia was last on screens in 2014, when it wrapped after three seasons on Seven. The premiere drew 588,000 viewers while the final episode brought in 416,000. Before that, when season one kicked off in 2011, the premiere drew 1.28m. There was a gap between season two and season three, with the casting beginning in 2012 but the season not airing till 2014.
Strange choice for host. Everyone in the Southern States and SA and WA will have no idea who Beau is…….
POINT 1 – Gary, everyone in the Southern States and SA and WA is lucky
POINT 2 – Serious question, can these producers tell us who they think is the target market that Beau Ryan appeals to?
POINT 3 – this show will be a massive flop
So true
Another misguided and poorly judged choice by Ten/CBS. A monotoned oneliner host !! geez that going to work out well for them… another show of a poorly thought out strategy and concept. I suggest producers and creatives go back to uni (if they even went in the first place) … nought idea
Point 3 – In your opinion only
Can I please get some good news out of TEN? Genuinely, it’s getting harder and harder to justify. FML.
Beau Ryan is the worst.
But to anyone who has watched the show, especially US and Canadian versions, know that the host is on screen less than 5% of the time. The racers/contestants are the stars, so it will be interesting to see if they are well cast.
The host needs to tie it together and I don’t think he has the intelligence to do so. On your point of being well ‘cast’ … I doubt it because we are handing the decisions to fresh into the industry ‘wannabes’ and they just don’t have the vision or acumen to foresee who and what will work… doomed to fail with this combo of host and inexperienced producers.
So now Ten are unleashing Beau Ryan to make his racist jokes to dog owners on the continent of Asia…