“Double the Stakes, Double the Eliminations” – Host Phil Keoghan sends 14 teams, the largest cast ever, on the journey of a lifetime, on the 37th season premiere of THE AMAZING RACE, Wednesday, March 5 (9:30-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*.At the first destination, Hong Kong, teams encounter their first surprise twist of the season when they confront the inaugural Fork in the Road, forcing them to choose which direction and route they want to take to the Pit Stop, creating two parallel races where two teams will be eliminated. Pictured (L-R): Jeff “Pops” Bailey and Jeff Bailey. Photo: Kit Karzen/CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Best-bets for March 5: “Race” begins, “Flip-Off” ends

1) “The Amazing Race” opener, 9:30-11 p.m., CBS. It’s the show’s largest line-up, with 14 duos. There are married nurses and dating nurses. Three more duos are married, including Las Vegas performers and the parents of eight boys. There are father-son lumberjacks (shown here) and Chicago’s retired gangs-and-narcotics chief, who’s with his daughter. Read more…

1) “The Amazing Race” opener, 9:30-11 p.m., CBS. It’s the show’s largest line-up, with 14 duos. There are married nurses and dating nurses. Three more duos are married, including Las Vegas performers and the parents of eight boys. There are father-son lumberjacks (shown here) and Chicago’s retired gangs-and-narcotics chief, who’s with his daughter.

2) “The Flip-Off” finale, 8-9:30 p.m., HGTV. For five weeks, ex-spouses Christina Hall and Tarek El Moussa have competed room-by-room in home-makeovers. There’s been great design and personal troubles, including the crumbling of Hall’s third marriage. Now they have a final challenge (judged by Jeff Lewis) and put the houses up for sale.

3) “Abbott Elementary,” 8:30 p.m., ABC. Ava is pressured to remove a book from the library; she does – and is pressured from the other side. That follows “Shifting Gears,” with Riley and her dad at her daughter’s Career Day,

4) “Good Cop/Bad Cop,” 9 p.m., CW. A high school rivalry peaks when the new quarterback is attacked. The schemes go much deeper, we find, in a clever hour. That follows a “Wild Cards” in which an old friend lures Max toward her con-woman days.

5) MORE: “The Chicago shows (8-11 p.m., NBC) start with a doctor and a firefighter combining for a dangerous rescue. And Showtime has three potent winners of the best-picture Oscar – “Million Dollar Baby” (2004), 8 p.m.; “The Godfather” (1972), 10:15; and its sequel (1974), 1:15 a.m.

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