
At long last, the new series of travel show-slash-competition Race Across the World is back.
The premise is simple: five couples must race each other across a sizeable chunk of the globe, without mobile phones or credit cards, in pursuit of a £20,000 cash prize. Complicating matters, the teams only have a shoestring budget to help them complete the odyssey (equivalent to a one-way flight between the start and end points)