From TV Guide:

The surprise Emmy win for The Amazing Race Sunday night couldn't have come at a better time for the show's executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

While Bruckheimer had begun preparations for a fifth installment of the globe-hopping competition, there had been no official renewal notification from CBS. Going into the weekend, the show's fate was very much up in the air.

But after the awards Sunday night, with the Emmy in hand for Outstanding Reality/Competition Program, Bruckheimer was telling associates that CBS had finally given him the greenlight for another season of The Amazing Race in 2004.

Yeaaaa! Can't wait. Could it ever top Chip & Reichen? Probably not, but I've enjoyed all four races a great deal. Applications are now being taken. You have until October 8. Don't say you missed your chance.

Chip & Reichen fans: Don't forget, Reichen appears on the Frasier Premiere, and that's coming up in about 7 hours or less (depending on your coast).

He has just one line, and I believe it's the first (definitely in the opening scene), and hopefully you know by now that nearly all the nets and local stations now start their shows a minute or two early (some local newscasts are starting as early as five minutes early). So make sure you instruct your VCR or Tivo (tell me you're not still using a VCR--are you also loading tape reels onto your PC for memory?) to start two minutes early or you'll miss him.

And I believe his character will be listed in the credits as "The impossibly handsome man."

(Another note: the show is being adverstised by NBC as a one-hour special, but Tivo has it as two half hours, so be sure to grab both if you don't have a season pass.)

(And thanks to Ben for the reminder to me.)

Update:

I hope you didn't plan your evening around it. Pretty anticlimactic to me. (Same for the rest of you?) Don't know what I was expecting out of one line. Can't say it was delivered all that well even. But I'm sure he was nervous. (It was not so much the line itself as the sultriness or some kind of animal magnetism he was supposed to exude. He wasn't bad, just not great.) Or maybe it was just the standard expectations thing. I always expect too much.