"Hunted" (on tonight) - would you do it?

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Just that really. I love the thought of being able to go off grid and outwit the hunters. I'd probably be rubbish, but i like the idea.
Also wondering how 'real' it is - cameras following you etc.

As far as fake goes, that's a bit extreme. It says at the beginning that the powers of the state are replicated. They obviously aren't allowed full access to all actual cctv and anpr so have to replicate it as best they can.

Seizing laptops and phones and hacking them etc is totally legit. And it's hardly cheating really, it's one of the first things the police would do when someone is on the run.

It's a load of scripted bullshit and I can't watch it anymore.

BoobleMcB, the problem I have with it is precisely that they overdo how those powers are replicated. Seizing laptops and so on is fine but there have been some situations where people have been 'found' rather too conveniently and it doesn't add up as being realistic. I stopped watching when it became too obvious like that.

This is the programme that has us shouting the most at the telly. Mainly because of the stupidity/naïveté of the contestants, but also the scripting/editing to make it more exciting. But, I guess, as with a lot of things it's easy to criticise from the comfort of your sofa, and trying to go off the grid while trailing a cameraman is not so easy.

A cameraman who may or may not be sending pics of street camera's back to HQ.

So it's been claimed by people who know people.......

It did always make me wonder how they knew which cctv to look at, at What time though, since there 1000s of cctv cameras and 1000 of hours worth to look through.

@Thewitcher the cameramen don't work for the hunters though, nor do they have access to HQ. Anything and everything goes through the producers and the production team

Surely the cameramen are feeding info back?

Like ANPR, for example - the HQ people presumably don’t have real access to that. So surely there’s some system where the cameramen are surreptitiously texting their location as they drive past ANPR cameras if they’re in a vehicle of interest?

I’m deliberately not googling this to avoid getting any spoilers for the current TV series.

No, because it's complete and total bullshit.

The hunters are overdoing it with their 'nasty' image, are the name calling and over excited gestures really necessary. Can't they just be portrayed as professionals

And yes the camera men accompanying the hunted, it's like waving a flag and shouting here we are.

It's a shame, the idea is good.

'Can't they just be portrayed as professionals'

They're professional actors.

@SparkleFizz they feedback via the production company

So they say.......

That was about being professional actors, don't know about the feedback but it could apply as well

BoobleMcB 😂

Okaaaaay. Like the hunters don't also work for the production company, and yeah why would a production company care if it made boring viewing of lots of people sat in tents eating tinned bake beans for 4 weeks.

Had to stop watching because we spend the whole programme shouting 'come off it!' at the TV. If it was fairer I would be tempted to do it but it mostly seems designed to make the contestants look stupid.

I think some of them don’t need help looking stupid. That bin bag disguise in episode 2 (I think) was ridiculous.

Yes, ok, they had to walk past CCTV. But really, surely anyone with any sense can see that walking around with a bin bag over your head is going to look extremely suspicious to anyone monitoring those cameras? They might as well have made a giant sign saying “fugitive here!!”

Actually, thinking about it some scenes must be re-shot. Because you never see the camera operators in any of the CCTV footage but from the footage of the fugitives filmed at the "same time" by the camera operators following them, the camera operator should be in shot

There’s also scenes where you see the fugitive in a car they’ve flagged down, the camera person is in the car. Then you see a shot filmed from the roadside of the car driving along the road.

In the rules there are probably things like you can't just hide in one place (hence the drop off and exit points), you'll have to make contact and so on. Otherwise I'd have applied and just bunked down over our back fence! There's no access to it from footpath or road.

Mind, my kids would probably give me up for a toy train and lack of haribo.

Personally I prefer the idea of them scattering from their own homes and having to make it to an evac point. But I guess that's harder to make sure you've got your fugitive on cctv etc.

Think with cameras in cars now is i suspect most people would think they are front/rear dashcams.

It would be more a more realistic scenario if they scattered from their own homes.

That's what they did in the first series.

Yes. I remember that. I liked that, and the way they could use their local knowledge to speed up their initial getaway.

Having them disperse from a central location is more artificial.

I mean, if someone was going on the run at a few minutes notice, then it’s plausible that they might have an emergency running away rucksack at home.

But who routinely goes off to meet a group of fellow potential fugitives in the middle of a city and takes their running away rucksack with them?

(Probably overthinking this!)

The SAHD from the last series was great. I love how he bluffed them.
I hated the way one of the women in the office kept running him down because he was an at home parent.