page_title: Eco-Challenge
section_title: Television history
hierarchical_section_title: Eco-Challenge / Television history
caption_attribution_description: English: David Callaway and Mark Burnett during Eco-Challenge Utah
context_page_description: Eco-Challenge: The Expedition Race is a multi-day expedition length adventure race in which teams of four competed. It originally aired on TV from April 1995 to April 2002.
  The race returned in September 2019, taking place in Fiji. The new series, under the title World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji, premiered on August 14, 2020 on Amazon Prime Video.
context_section_description: Each Eco-Challenge was broadcast on cable television.  The 1995 Utah race was shown as a 45-minute feature, produced by and broadcast on MTV.  The 1995 Maine/New England event was broadcast in segments as part of the Extreme Games broadcast on ESPN.  Starting in 1996, Eco-Challenge was aired on the Discovery Channel and the production enjoyed a significantly expanded budget.  The 1996 British Columbia production, broadcast on the Discovery Channel won an Emmy Award. 
   In 2000, the USA Network agreed to a three-year contract to broadcast the Eco-Challenge. Later that year, the show was nominated for a Prime-Time Emmy Award. USA did not renew the show after the 2002 Fiji race.
  Although long out of print, the 1996 through 2001 Eco-Challenge races were released on VHS by Discovery soon after the shows aired.  The Utah, Maine/New England, and Fiji episodes were never officially released in the United States.
  In 2011, Burnett sold Expedition Impossible, a reality show with a similar concept to Eco-Challenge, to ABC as a summer series.  The new show debuted on June 30 of that year.
caption: David Callaway and Mark Burnett during Eco-Challenge Utah
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