Description
Shine TV for Channel 4
Disappearing in a modern, 21st century state has become a near impossible task. Our surveillance society catches us on CCTV up to seventy times a day. Now everything from cash withdrawals to supermarket shopping, telephone calls, our internet history, texts and social media posts are monitored. So just how watched are we?
If you had to disappear tomorrow, for whatever reason – with some of the world’s best missing persons experts looking for you – and the most cutting-edge technology keeping tabs on your electronic footprint, could you just vanish? How possible is it to leave your old life behind to start a new one? And how on earth would you go about it?
To find out, seven groups of ordinary people from a cross section of society go on the run, while a crack team of some of the world’s best investigators will hunt them down. In a unique national manhunt, Hunted will dramatically explore the scale of the surveillance state’s all-seeing gaze through an original social experiment, played out before the nation on camera.
This hit factual thriller returns for a new season as nine British citizens turn fugitive and go on the run.
Following a dramatic launch and helicopter chase the fugitives are pursued across the UK by an elite team of hunters, drawn from some of the world’s best investigators.
The stakes are high; if the fugitives can evade capture for 25 days they will win a share of £100,000. But they’re up against a formidable force of 30 hunters equipped with the latest in ANPR technology, search dogs, drones and helicopters.
Ratings:
- Channel 4's #1 show of the year for Adults 16-24
- S7 was a massive hit and scored highest ever shares across all demos
- Over 2.1M viewers for a 12.7% market share for S7, 88% above the slot!
- S7 was a huge success for younger viewers (16-34) with a 23.3% share, 171% above the slot. Also way above the slot across all key other demographics
- The launch of S7 delivered an overnight audience of 1.12 million viewers with a market share of 8.08% - up on Channel 4’s slot average market share by +40% for All Individuals
- Performing well for a younger audience, the premiere was C4’s #1 show and more than doubled the broadcaster’s slot average by +149% for Adults 16-34
- Maintaining this success, S7 was above Channel 4’s slot average across all key demographics Adults 35-54 (+67%), Adults 55+ (+11%), ABC1 Adults (+45%), C2DE Adults (+31%), Housepersons (+36%), Men (+30%) and Women (+47%)
- S6 launched as #1 in its slot for 16-34s and more than doubled the broadcaster’s slot average by +124%. Also doubling the slot average for Kids 4-15 by +116%
- Maintaining this success, S6 also outperformed Channel 4’s slot average for all key demographics Adults 35-54 (+62%), Adults 55+ (+5%), ABC1 Adults (+36%), Housewives (+20%), Men (+55%) and Women (+19%)
- S6 is C4’s second highest rating factual entertainment show this year