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Hunted: Intense UK Reality Competition Series Gets US Version


Soon to join The Amazing Race and Survivor at CBS is the new reality competition series Hunted, as intense to watch as it is for the folks who go on the run to avoid being captured.

Reality shows aren’t usually my thing, unless we’re talking documentaries. But with Hunted, I am hooked, as are more than a million Britons who’ve tuned in to the first three episodes to date on Channel 4 in the UK.

Now CBS has ordered Shine TV’s Hunted for the US, which will be produced for the stateside network by Endemol Shine North America (Big Brother, The Biggest Loser).

Said Glenn Geller, President of CBS Entertainment, “It combines the suspense of a crime drama with the thrill of a competition reality series and some very topical social issues.”

In Hunted the contestants are fugitives trying to escape detection, while expert trackers and investigators manhunt them by any and all means available, from the traditional searches of homes and questioning of family and friends, to state-of-the-art digital technologies — including mobile phones, debit/credit cards, and social media with their built-in tracking mechanisms — that allow the hunters to locate the hunted.

For the contestants, dispensing with life as they know it while being on the run, trying to avoid being captured, is more difficult than they could have imagined. Not just on the physical level, but on the mental and emotional, as well. As in paranoia, panic, loneliness.

And even though there are far fewer CCTV cameras in the US than Britain, the trackers have ways to find the fugitives, because the latter leave physical and/or electronic footprints just about everywhere they go, from practically everything they do.

So what does it take to slip through the cracks and go undetected for a month in a country where surveillance is nearly everywhere, all while still abiding by the law? That is the question posed by Hunted, and it is up to the show’s fugitives to find out.

CBS will announce further details about Hunted in the near future.

stekay:
I really need to watch the UK version! The adverts made it look intense.

realshowfan:
I just watched the first episode. Definitely quite interesting!

theamazingracer21:
Can someone send me a link to the UK version. This looks interesting.

realshowfan:
I think it's ended. Only 6 episodes, I wanna watch more!  :lol:

Show contentSteve and Martin didn't have a lot of struggle, which is very good! And looking at their 28-day route, it's even more impressive!

But definitely Emily and Lauren were the most fun to watch! I couldn't help but cheer when they finally reunited! I thought it could have been anticlimactic that they all had only one escape point, since Emily had given away the location. At least, as a viewer, they didn't get all caught  :hearts:

The concept of this is definitely interesting, especially watching how the hunters track and seek information of the fugitives, to the point that it seems stalker-creepy at times!  :lol:

I wonder what did Ben Owen and all the other Hunters do after that. They MUST have met the successful fugitives, since it's just a "game" and probably a sort of practice for the investigators. Having said that, I do hope all the fugitives are ok. I know they signed up for it, but I really cannot picture myself doing those kinds of stuff. I'd lose my marbles! Paranoia-wise, it feels like this is harder than Survivor, because here you potentially have no friends (so I suspect they've become close to their cameramen :lol: ).

My favourite moments are: Emily going all the way from North I think back to her son iirc within a day all through hitchhiking, and still escaping; Emily exchanging jackets with a homeless person, which just puts a smile on my face; the newlyweds' cheeky postcard; the random capture of the pair that disguised themselves and had those deck of cards (can't remember their names); and some Ricky Allen moments.

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