'The Amazing Race' Season 25 is Over But the Race for Season 26 is Already Underway and Will Soon Air on Primetime TV!

CBS' The Amazing Race 25, the twenty-fifth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race which featured eleven teams of two in a race around the world was concluded on December 19 with 'The Candy Girls' Amy DeJong and Maya Warren winning $1 million grand prize. On crowning them, host Phil Keoghan, according to Reality TV World, said: "Amy and Maya. Eight countries, 20 cities and more than 26,000 miles, you have won the one million dollars and are the official winners of The Amazing Race!" Amy DeJong and Maya Warren are both Ph.D. (Food Science, specializing in the study of confectionery products) students and lab mates at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

The twenty-sixth installment of the longest-running reality TV show is currently already in post production, and according to CBS, will premiere on February 25 at its new Wednesday 9:30 pm time slot. In the next season, the teams will consist only of eleven dating couples, with five of the teams meeting for the first time in a blind date during the race itself. Keoghan in the studio preview describes it as "a special season of The Amazing Race" and says "for the first time ever, five teams will meet right here on the starting line for the most extreme blind dates ever."

Reality Fan Forum has already leaked some documentation for The Amazing Race 26 timeline. For one, the site reports that Leg 1 of the race which will be from Los Angeles, USA, to Tokyo, Japan, filmed November 12-14, will air on February 25. For another, the concluding Leg 12 which was from Trujillo, Peru, to Dallas, USA, was filmed on December 6, and it may likely broadcast on the show's season 26 finale. The site also identified who were some of the participants in the The Amazing Race 26, including former New Kids on the Block's singer Jonathan Knight and his boyfriend Harley Rodriguez, roller derby player Rochelle Nevedal and her date wrestling promoter Mikey Dombrowski, and dating Olympians Steven Langton and Alyson Dudek.