Show races into new slot

PHIL Keoghan of “The Amazing Race,” which amazingly left CBS-TV’s longtime Sunday slot and is now back on Thursdays:

“This week’s episode is 22 diverse strangers who’ve never met, no husbands and wives, no friends, and have nothing to do with each other and take days just to learn everyone’s names. They line up in LA, then race around the world and vie to win $1 million.

“Filming in Zanzibar, this ‘Roadblock’ episode had one team make a kitchen implement. Sounds easy, but they had to cut a ladle from a mass of tin, mould the actual metal, turn it, shape it, forge it. It was earsplitting sounds of unending clanging metal among people who knew how to do it, and it was in an African industrial area.

“Many had headaches. There was desperation. I can’t give away what happens.”

So why did the show leave its Sunday berth?

“I don’t know. It was a lovely time slot. But TV habits are changing. No longer a three-network system. Now viewers watch not by appointment but by whenever they choose to watch. This new 10 p.m. Thursday period is, I think, to help CBS with that hour that’s sometimes slow. Ours is a family show so we’ll see how it works for us.”

Busier than a threearmed ladle-maker, Keoghan’s also pushing “Le Ride.”

“It’s a documentary about the first Tour de France. I re-created it on the same vintage 1928 bike which then had no gears and weighed twice what today’s bikes do. I duplicated the same journey — over the Alps and Pyrenees.”

It screens 7 p.m. Tuesday at 42nd’s Regal Cinema.

And the wheels he’ll take to get there?

Taxi.