Watch first 5 minutes of “The Wonderful Race” season 37 premiere (unique)

The Amazing Race will kick off its thirty seventh season March 5 on CBS, however you don’t have to attend till then to look at host Phil Keoghan arch his eyebrow. That’s as a result of we’ve bought the primary 5 minutes of the premiere completely for you proper right here and proper now.

Not solely can we get an excellent sneak peek at a number of the twists, turns, and drama to unfold the season, with Keoghan promising that “feelings will run excessive as the strain builds to a ultimate showdown,” however we get to bear witness to start out of the Race, because the host explains to the groups that “this season there are extra massive surprises than ever earlier than.” He additionally warns them in regards to the new Fork within the Highway and the approaching double elimination on the conclusion of the primary leg. (Impolite.)

However don’t take my phrase for it. Watch all of the motion within the video above to see which groups flourish and falter proper out of the gate, as they race out of the Academy Museum of Movement Photos for his or her first vacation spot: Hong Kong.

We additionally spoke to Keoghan to get some teases on what to anticipate on the remainder of the season 37 premiere.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First off, do you need to do any eyebrow arching workout routines to get in form for the brand new season?

PHIL KEOGHAN: Yeah, usually I work out day-after-day, after which a part of my routine is 10 eyebrow arches. It's written in my contract that I can solely do a sure quantity, in any other case they should pay me bonus eyebrow cash. So I can do three pops per present. That's it. It will get costly if I do too lots of these.

What are you able to inform us in regards to the Fork within the Highway and the way that performs out with two separate races taking place as groups should resolve which course to take?

That's one thing we've been speaking about for some time. I believe finally, it's going to be as much as the followers to tell us whether or not they need us to do it once more and whether or not they assume it labored. There's been quite a lot of concepts that we've talked about over time that we've needed to attempt to implement. And the community was actually eager on having a special massive shock in each single episode on prime of the usual surprises that now we have each time. So this appeared to make loads of sense, and let's see what occurs if we power groups to should decide to go left or proper.

There's loads of technique at play as a result of it's like, “Nicely, how many individuals went left and the way many individuals went proper? After which what’s it on the left and what’s it on the suitable and does it make sense to do that?” It could possibly be a group will get there and most of the people have gone left and that's the factor that you just and I perhaps assume we are able to do the most effective, however hardly anyone's gone on the opposite path. After which we're like, “If we go left, we're going to be behind, regardless that that's most likely what we need to do, however we actually most likely have to go proper as a result of there's much less folks there and perhaps we take our possibilities there.” So there's loads of actually good technique concerned with it.

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What’s it like for you having a double elimination on the very first leg? I do know you like the competitors, however you're additionally an empathetic man and I all the time really feel so unhealthy for these folks that exit first.

Yeah, it's the toughest factor. You undergo that entire casting course of for months and generally should you take a look at Nick and Mike for example, these guys tried to get on the present for seven years. So God forbid you're in a scenario the place you've bought to remove them first out of the gate. You don't need that to occur, however, after all, all of it comes out within the combine.

You simply don't know who's going to go, however any person's bought to go, after which to look of their eyes and perhaps they've solely been on the Race for twenty-four hours, that's robust. And also you're standing there on the mat and also you notice, “Oh my God, 24 hours in the past we had been standing at the beginning line and now we've bought this double elimination.”

That's actually robust to do and to execute. You need folks to go lengthy. And I'm not going to lie, there are occasions the place we're eliminating groups that we want we weren't eliminating since you actually had excessive expectations and generally there's a direct correlation between the groups which can be most attention-grabbing and those that exit the earliest. So Murphy's Legislation.

I'm not allowed to have favorites, however there's positively occasions the place I'm like, “Oh man, what I wouldn't do to have them stick round simply because I believe they assume they're going to get an increasing number of attention-grabbing.” Individuals say to me generally with the non-elimination legs — “Oh, you guys should simply make it up.” And I'm like, “You don’t have any thought. You don’t have any thought how unimaginable that’s to do.”

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