Hunted: Channel 4’s fugitive show is back for Series 2 – and the rules have changed

The format has been tweaked for the better as the show returns
Ben Travis22 September 2016

Last year Channel 4 struck on a surprisingly thrilling format for a reality TV show.

Hunted tasks ordinary people to try and go ‘off the grid’ and remain undetected by a crack team of experts over the course of several weeks.

With omnipresent technology and the emotional pull of homesickness, it proved a near-impossible task for most of the participants in the first series.

Now the show is back for Series 2, and a slight tweak to the format has heightened things considerably.

Hunted is now a competition – and any of the contestants who make it to 28 days undetected will win a share of a £100,000 cash fund.

It’s an extra incentive on top of the ‘I want to stick it to the man’ motivations of last year’s series, pushing the participants harder and increasing the stakes – for young people, a chunk of that money means a house deposit, or paying off debts.

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There are ten fugitives in the (literal) running, given a thirty minute headstart from a warehouse in Birmingham.

After that, former Scotland Yard chief Peter Bleksley is using his team and years of experience to try and track them all down.

It seems like Hunted will be as gripping as it was in its first run, with heightened tension and inventive means of escape and disguise from the contestants. The hunt is on.

Channel 4, 9pm

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