'Amazing Race' finally ready to roll again

And they're off!

OK, so, in reality, "The Amazing Race" racers have been done racing for months now. But the show's sixth-season premiere has been shifted and delayed several times.

We now have a date, and chances are this one is actually going to come through. Instead of airing Saturdays, as previously announced, the show will return to Tuesdays (where it did very well over the summer) on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. on Ch. 2

This is good news, "Race" fans, because Saturdays are the lowest-watched night of network television.

For local viewers, there's a reason to watch in addition to the fact that "Amazing Race" is the best reality/competition show on TV. A pair of Utah sisters, 23-year-old Lena Jensen and her 26-year-old sister, Kristy, are among the two-person teams who race around the world, fighting to accomplish various tasks as they battle for a $1 million prize.

And they sound just made for TV. Salt Laker Kristy is described as "a devout Mormon mother-model-student," while Lena of Pleasant Grove is a "carefree . . . former striptease aerobics instructor."

Well . . . we'll just have to see how this works out.

"CLUBHOUSE": Good news for "Amazing Race" is bad news for "Clubhouse." The very good but little-watched show is getting shuffled off to the black hole of Saturday nights at 7 p.m. as of Nov. 6.

Let's hope it can beat the odds and succeed on Saturdays.

WB FLIP FLOPS: A pair of WB shows — one good, one not good — are trading time slots as the network attempts to ramp up the ratings for both shows.

"Jack & Bobby," a fine new series about the teenage years of a future president of the United States, moves from Sundays to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. beginning Oct. 27.

Oddly enough, that puts "Jack & Bobby" up against NBC's "The West Wing." Which means executive producer Tommy Shlamme's new show is going up against his old show. And that a show about a future president is going up against a show about a current president.

Given the current state of both shows, I'd vote for future over present.

Meanwhile, the lame soap "The Mountain" moves from Wednesdays to Sundays at 8 p.m. beginning Oct. 31. That's a good thing, because there are already too many good shows on Sundays, and "The Mountain" won't be one of them.

TRU-LY WEIRD: Fans of "Tru Calling," no, your show hasn't been canceled. Yet. But the prognosis isn't good.