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Interview: Eric Ransdell, director of Shanghai Rush

We hope everyone's readying their tv sets to watch Shanghai Rush, China's first English-language reality show, which premiers tonight at 8pm on ICS. While others have taken a sneak peek at the first episode - in which we're introduced to the ten teams of... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Sun, May 03 2009

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