Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Uzbekistan is filming an episode of the sensational reality show "Race Across the World" on the BBC Two TV channel in the UK last year.

This time, the Danish channel TV2 creates its own television product, having received the rights to the popular show. The filming in Uzbekistan is organized by the famous journalist Nikita Makarenko. Race Across the World is a new ambitious adventure format for the show, dedicated not only to travel, but also to the culture of various countries. The project consists of eight parts of 40 minutes each. Several teams compete for a prize in a race from Denmark to Singapore without using airplanes.

The team that comes first to the finish of the route wins. The participants of the show carry a limited amount of money equivalent to the cost of a ticket from Copenhagen to Singapore. Moreover, they can travel around the globe in any way possible: on foot, by car, by bicycle, by boat, by bus, by ferry, by motorcycle, by horse, by camel.

All decisions are made by them independently. They also lack mobile phones; they cannot use the Internet and other means of communication. “One of the goals of this show is to show that in the modern world people began to use planes so often that the process of travel is no longer of any interest. It's just a moment of life when we jump from point“ A ”to point“ B ”.

But for the same money that costs an air ticket, you can drive half the world and get to your destination. Last year’s show showed that it’s actually real, "Makarenko said. The filming of the episode in Uzbekistan will last a week. Since the teams started their journey from Copenhagen, the arrival time of each of them will be different. The reality show Race Across the World was created by the studio “Lambert” and aired last spring on BBC Two, then competing on a trip from London to Singapore.

As a result, the show was such an incredible success that this year it was nominated for the UK National Television Award, along with Top Gear. "Uzbekistan, shown in the last show, caused an incredible sensation in the UK. Twitter users wrote in bulk about the country, many wrote that they had heard the word" Uzbekistan "for the first time and wanted to come here. The managers of the Uzbekistan Hotel in Tashkent say that they have grown this year the flow of British tourists, because everyone wants to stay here, because the hotel was a "check point" on the route of the show, "the journalist said.

The production of this show did not cost the country's budget anything, while Uzbekistan received powerful advertising for free. The show reveals not only the race of the participants in the struggle for the first prize, but also their characters. They encounter difficulties on routes, try to overcome them, and resolve internal conflicts. Travelers everywhere rely on the help of local residents.

As you know, Uzbekistan is very hospitable people. Everywhere where the participants of the show "Race around the world" have already visited by today, people helped them in every possible way, while remembering their knowledge of the English language. The project employs about 60 people. Since this is a reality show, everything is unpredictable here. Team members make their own decisions about how it is best for them to move around the country, so film crews must immediately adapt to them, and in production this is very difficult.

The film crew is supported by the State Committee for Tourism Development and the National Film Commission of Uzbekistan. "I am glad that cinema tourism in Uzbekistan is of increasing interest to foreign companies, and we all know that the big tasks in this are entrusted to the National Film Commission.

Her work greatly facilitates the creative process. Previously, for example, more time would be required to obtain various kinds of permissions. Now the film commission is helping us in this, as if acting as a bridge between government agencies and us,” Nikita Makarenko said.

In addition, in the field, all government agencies provide assistance to the crew in emerging issues. The show is scheduled for release at the beginning of 2020, it will be shown on Denmark’s most popular television channel TV2.