Hunted

Disappearing in a modern, 21st century state has become a near impossible task. Our surveillance society catches us on CCTV up to 70 times a day, but the ever- watching eye can see much further than that. Now everything from cash withdrawals to supermarket shopping, telephone calls, our internet history, texts and social media posts can be monitored. So just how watched are we?

If you had to disappear tomorrow, for whatever reason – with an elite team of hunters tracking you down and 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, 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 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.

Ratings

• Channel 4 (UK) – successful return in 2023 especially for Adults 16-34, with S5 of Celebrity tripling the slot average by +200% and S6 of Hunted +22% vs slot
• Ten Network (Australia) – Australian TV’s biggest new show in 2022, S1 was No.1 in its timeslot on the global and key demos, delivering 1.2 million viewers on average across the series. Returning in 2023
• NPO 3 (The Netherlands) – S6 delivered the best performance to date (+161% vs the slot average), while S3 of the celebrity version was hugely successful with +167% vs the slot
• Kanal 5 (Denmark) – Celebrity Hunted S3 won Best Entertainment Series at the TV Prisen