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Hunted is a very silly show and I have watched every minute of it. Ten’s reality breakout competition in which contestants try to stay one step ahead of the production’s professional pursuers – alternative title: Tom Clancy’s Amazing Race – is a blanket of simulation and shortcuts tied to a fantastic concept and some interesting implications. It also features a tall man with a thick beard who tries to disguise himself as “nonna” so as not to draw attention to himself. In this series being serious is always going crazy. If you’ve ever enjoyed the many sequences in Jason Bourne’s films where the supporting cast stand in a dark control room full of surveillance technology and bark orders as they chase the elusive mine, Hunted maybe for you. Based on the successful British format (they even made a celebrity edition, which is a funny concept), the show is a tricky game of tag: with limited resources and a lack of digital privacy, nine teams of ...

Hunted Australia viewers were outraged over the ‘unfair’ twist that saw half of the team caught on Sunday’s episode. The Bondi couple, Lavinia and Nick, spent two weeks completely off-line avoiding friends and family, and not using the bank card given to them at the start of the competition. But eventually the couple found themselves in need of money as they were getting ‘cold, tired and hungry’. Hunted Australia viewers infuriated by the ‘unfair’ twist that saw half of the team caught on Sunday’s episode However, when they went to withdraw the cash they were entitled to spend, as per the rules of the game, the Hunters decided to throw a wrench. They froze the couple’s ATM cards in an attempt to catch them, even though all the other teams had taken advantage of this emergency cash resource. In CCTV footage, Lavinia made several attempts to withdraw cash without success. The Hunters cheered back at headquarters as he struggled t...

EXCLUSIVE: Follow Hunted ‘s debut this week, a number of readers are, understandably, curious about the staging and production methods. TV Tonight recently spoke with Deputy Intelligence Ben Owen who confirmed that any simulation – a word he uses repeatedly – is designed to mimic “real world” circumstances. In the case of CCTV footage for example, camera crews traveling with Hunters will mimic real-world cameras that are provided to a third-party “referee” who decides whether the Hunters can access them. There are strict rules when it is given. Maintaining a secret line, here’s how Owen explains some of the show’s secrets…. with a bit of TV magic. How do Hunters gain access to CCTV from public transport, banks and private companies? “I’m not sure I can give you the exact mechanics of how it works from scratch back to production. But what I can say is it simulates, replicates real life. Because if our fugitive gets on the t...