Hunted Channel 4 at 9 pm

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Anyone watching this? I find it interesting but knowing the cameraperson is with them spoils it.

I am! Love it! It seems like there are fewer people in it this year?

I'm watching.

DH and I tend to spend a lot of the time working out how we would do it. He's off to the Hebrides on his own. I have an old friend who's ex-Army and has a lot of useful skills and contacts so I'd have him as my team mate.

I am!

I'm sure the camera person/producers tip the hunters off about all kinds of things. They were very quick to conclude the people in the train station were decoys.

I love judging each move of the contestants and make mental notes to never make the same mistake (when I'm hypothetically on the show).. However, after watching a few series carefully now, I can't imagine how anyone would ever do it? The hunters have access to so much data, they even got their hands on someone's google history. It's not just a case of don't use a phone anymore; it's a case of nobody can ever use a phone again, or a car, or have ever been on social media.. Guaranteed if I ever DID go on the show, the hunters would read THIS message!!!! The best winners in my eyes was a while ago when two singing brothers had such a broad and loyal network of rl fans they'd met whilst singing in pubs, were able to fb live a gig and still get away. They deserved that money!

The hunters do seem to have access to a lot of data.

Although given the number of near misses, I suspect that the camera crew are tipping the hunters off to which area to focus on, or are encouraging members of the public to phone the hunter hotline.

Because otherwise there’s a huge number of potential associates, potential locations and so on, so unless someone gives the hunters a clue, you’d think it’d be a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Like that pair who had their bank accounts frozen - ok, yes, it forces them to go seek help from friends, but - WTF were they thinking of paying for their bar meal with a card anyway? Don’t they know that a card transaction will be flagged up in Hunter HQ and tell the hunters that they’ve been in that pub?

And an awful lot of them seem to be trying to taunt the hunters this year.

Setting up “traps”, sending them postcards, posing for photos on social media.....

Telling the hunters where you are, or have recently been, seems very foolish if the aim is to not get caught.

I read something recently that said the Hunted have a number of game rules they have to comply with - I.e they can't stay in the same place for more than X days, must use a cash point at least every X days etc. Maybe this new trend of sending a postcard and meeting up with the family is one of those for this series?

If you were wanted you wouldn't go up to a stranger starting with "I'm on the run......"
Also if you try and get a lift or stay with a stranger they are more likely to say yes with a film crew with behind you than a random person on their own.
I wonder if it turns into a chase and the camera person gets left behind, how do they get back in contact again and can you just leave them in the dust or do you have to stay together?

I quite enjoy it, but with my cynical hat on. It is TV after all, not a real live fugitive chase.

How do the Hunters instantly access CCTV from some little corner shop/road in the middle of nowhere?
Why are the hunters just allowed access to the homes/phones/computers of the hunted and anyone they've ever met in their lives?
Now there have been several series, don't the fugitives know to tell their helpers to switch off their phones so they can't be pinged?
Why are they suddenly all taunting the hunters?
Why do they all have to have an emotional reunion with their family half way through - way to get caught or what!
It is pretty clearly all manipulated but I still watch and yell at the TV.

Why are the hunters just allowed access to the homes/phones/computers of the hunted and anyone they've ever met in their lives?

I’m thinking that must be some sort of condition of participating - that the hunted & their families / close friends must consent in advance to that. I suppose on the basis that in a real life hunted situation the police could get a warrant and seize that stuff without consent.

Huge Hunted fans in this house but I have to say this series has not been as good as past ones. I agree with a pp who said they think the contacting family and sending postcards etc have been added to the rules this year. Also the two who used their card that had been stopped by the Hunters. I thought in previous series they had to go on the run without them and had pre paid cards given to them at the start?

I agree, that card freeze was infuriating. In the past they got a card with X pounds (less than 1k, maybe 800 or 600?) and they could only take out X (maybe 200) at any one time.

There is no way that they let people use their own funds to go on the run because that's wholly unfair to those with limited money.

This is the first series I’ve watched! Really enjoying it, but I can’t understand how they’ve got a hope of remaining incognito with a camera man following them around? Also don’t understand why they choose to get into/out of cars in very public places which will obviously have cctv!

I wonder how much preparation they are allowed to do beforehand? I’d be giving a postcard to someone else to post from somewhere else in the country, and have a very newly purchased cheap old car sat somewhere waiting for me to drive myself in, so as there’s no time for the dvla to have changed ownership and therefore not easy to trace, plus nobody else would be implicated in driving me, and cannot give up my location. I’m way too invested in this I know

They used to be given a cash card that they had to use in the first 24 hours. The rules have obviously changed this year. I was disappointed with the military chap, as I was hoping for a near miss with him easily steaming away into the distance

There's lots of rules - the contestants are constantly reminded that it's a television show for entertainment purposes.

All the CCTV and HQ scenes are filmed later and spliced in.

The cameramen feed information about movements back to an 'third party' e.g. when they use an ATM or get a lift in a particular car that then passes an ANPR camera. That 'third party' decides what information is then given to the hunters.

There's a whole Reddit thread about it ....