The Amazing Race 38

CBS is casting The Amazing Race Season 38, which is currently in pre-production. The franchise has run 37 seasons since 2001 and has won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program ten times.

Requirements

• Teams of two with a pre-existing relationship (siblings, spouses, partners, parent-child, friends, coworkers, dating couples, etc.)
• Both team members must be at least 18 years old
• Valid US driver’s license required for at least one team member
• Valid US passport for both, with at least 6 months of validity past the filming window
• US residents only

What CBS is looking for

The casting team has historically prioritized teams whose relationship has texture — siblings with unresolved competitive history, couples at different life stages, parent-child duos with role-reversal dynamics. Pure friend pairings can work but tend to make the casting cut less often because their relationship lacks a built-in conflict engine.

The other major casting criterion is screen capability under stress. Amazing Race contestants are filmed for 18-24 hour stretches under jetlag, time pressure, and physical exhaustion. The casting team uses the application video to identify people who maintain a watchable energy across that.

How to apply

The full application is at theamazingracecasting.com and includes a joint application from both team members plus a video. Both team members need to appear on camera together; tapes that feature one person doing all the talking are quickly cut.

Tips

The single best thing you can do in the audition tape is have an actual fight on camera. Not a manufactured one — a real one, even small (someone left the laundry out, someone forgot to book the hotel). The casting team is selecting for the recovery, not the conflict. Teams who fight and then reconcile in 90 seconds are exactly what they want. Teams who pretend they never fight are exactly what they don’t.