FORMATS 2025
Race Across the World
How would you race across the world... if you couldn’ t fly?
In this real-world adventure format, five teams of two are racing from point A to B … without flying. Each team must travel across the globe by whatever means they can. With no phones to help them and only the price of a flight ticket in their pocket, it’ s set to be the ultimate globe-trotting expedition. Who will make it in the quickest time and win a big cash prize?
Along the way, the teams will be racing through the world’ s most beautiful scenery, getting help from friendly locals and immersing themselves in a kaleidoscope of different cultures. This journey will take the teams through multiple countries – so they’ ll need to learn how to communicate, eat what the locals eat, and find a way to navigate across mountains, deserts, seas and cities quickly and cheaply. This is a race which relies on making quick decisions, a challenge which calls for spontaneity, authenticity and the ability to find the unique in the most remote corners of the world. Do they have what it takes?
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Duration 1 hr
Originally produced by Studio Lambert for BBC Two, UK
Produced in UK, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Spain
Highlights
• BAFTA-winning format with over 200 episodes produced in eight countries
• First seasons launched in Spain, Norway and Germany in 2025
• New seasons launched in Sweden, Denmark and Finland in 2025
• UK season 5 averaged 5.8 million viewers, with a 34.5 % share which outperformed the slot average by 34 %, winning the slot for BBC One
• UK version ranks among BBC One’ s top five non-scripted shows since January 2024
Interactive
• Puzzle book, board game and live experience