{"id":15452,"date":"2026-07-14T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15452"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:49:35","slug":"show-discussion-the-chase-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15452","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: The Chase Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursdays from 16th July, 9pm
ITV1 and ITVX<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris, Zurich, Lisbon, Athens, Barcelona, Rome. When The Chase<\/strong> says it’s going around the world, boy do they mean it<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chase Around The World<\/strong> sees six pairs of contestants with pre-existing relationships race around these worldwide cities searching for a pair of Chasers who have set up these treasure hunts. There will be cryptic clues to solve to find locations and questions to answer at each point, but the last pair to arrive must take part in a 10-step Final Chase against the two Chasers in order to stay in the game. There are six teams and six episodes which suggests there will definitely be at least two episodes where people save themselves, or there won’t be much of a Final episode where there’s \u00a3100,000 up for grabs. How they work that will I’m sure be up for discussion. Winning a leg also means handing a time penalty for an opposing team in the following one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it’s basically The Amazing Race<\/strong> with the challenges replaced by quizzing… The Amazing Chase<\/em> if you will, which is definitely a good joke nobody has made before. I like The Amazing Race<\/em> but have always maintained that its editing style which sets it apart from other shows of its ilk would prove quite irritating to UK viewers (TSSCH-sound, probably) so it’s interesting to see how much this does or does not lean into that, but I have always thought The Amazing Race<\/em> would be better if its clues were<\/em> a bit more cryptic, a bit less “go here do this,”so maybe this might work. I’m sure it was a lovely jolly for Brad and the Chasers for a week or two anyway, although I do think it’s a pity that in a show that’s such a worldwide success they haven’t thought about getting some local Chasers, although looking at the locations I’m not sure The Chase<\/em> is on on any of them at the moment although it was certainly big in Spain for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interesting they seem to have decided on weekly for this. Feels like they’ve been bitten by trying to ape The Traitors<\/strong> scheduling in the last year, we’ll see if it works out for them. Let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursdays from 16th July, 9pmITV1 and ITVX Paris, Zurich, Lisbon, Athens, Barcelona, Rome. When The Chase says it’s going around the world, boy do they mean it. The Chase Around The World sees six pairs of contestants with pre-existing relationships race around these worldwide cities searching for a pair of Chasers who have set up\u2026 Read More: Show Discussion: The Chase Around The World »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-41e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}