Elise Doganieri

The 21st season of CBS' "The Amazing Race" begins Sunday night, on the heels of the reality competition show's ninth Emmy win. Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri - a married couple who are the creators and executive producers of "The Amazing Race" - talked about some of their own team challenges pulling off a globe-trotting show for the last decade. Congratulations on your ninth Emmy. Do you have a sense of why "The Amazing Race" is such a favorite with the television academy?

The 21st season of CBS' "The Amazing Race" begins Sunday night, on the heels of the reality competition show's ninth Emmy win. Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri - a married couple who are the creators and executive producers of "The Amazing Race" - talked about some of their own team challenges pulling off a globe-trotting show for the last decade. Congratulations on your ninth Emmy. Do you have a sense of why "The Amazing Race" is such a favorite with the television academy?

CBS' "The Amazing Race" winds up its eighth season this month, and the globetrotting show's title is an apt description of its improbable journey to three straight Emmys. Yet for co-creators/producers Elise Doganieri and husband Bertram Van Munster, the race never ends -- they're already up and running on Season 9. "I travel 250,000 air miles a year for the show," Doganieri said. "I think I age five years for every season."

CBS' "The Amazing Race" winds up its eighth season this month, and the globetrotting show's title is an apt description of its improbable journey to three straight Emmys. Yet for co-creators/producers Elise Doganieri and husband Bertram Van Munster, the race never ends -- they're already up and running on Season 9. "I travel 250,000 air miles a year for the show," Doganieri said. "I think I age five years for every season."

Award shows are routinely derided as nothing more than popularity contests. That cannot be said about the Emmy winner for outstanding reality competition, which -- yet again -- went to CBS' "The Amazing Race." The race-around-the-globe reality series, while certainly respectable in the ratings, is no match for much of its reality show competitors, most notably, Fox's "American Idol" -- television's most popular show (not to mention ABC's "Dancing With the Stars").

Crew members from the new Los Angeles-based reality TV show "The Great Escape" walked off the job after talks between producers and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees broke down on Friday. IATSE, which represents technical workers who operate behind the scenes on films and TV shows, has called a strike against the TNT series, alleging producers have blocked efforts to bring union benefits to the show's crew. "By obstructing the IATSE's organizing efforts, the union has declared the show and company off-limits for its members," IATSE said in a statement Saturday morning.

When contestants on CBS' Emmy-winning reality competition series "The Amazing Race" sally forth on their globetrotting adventures, they retrace the steps of series co-creators Bertram van Munster and his wife and business partner, Elise Doganieri. The program on Tuesday features expanded scenes and unaired footage from the first six episodes of the unscripted series' current incarnation, "The Amazing Race 6."

"Skyfall" became the first James Bond film to ever receive a nomination from the Producers Guild of America, as its producers and those of  "Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero Dark Thirty" were nominated for the Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award for theatrical motion pictures. The complete list follows, and the full story can be read here . FILM Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures (Darryl F. Zanuck Award)

The Producers Guild of America announced Wednesday the television series and specials and digital series nominated for the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards -- and there are some new faces and switch-ups. In the drama category,  "Breaking Bad" will compete with  "Game of Thrones," "Mad Men," "Downton Abbey" (previously in the long-form category) and "Homeland" -- bumping last year's winner, "Boardwalk Empire," from the list, in addition to last year's nominees "The Good Wife" and "Dexter.