Tonight, CBS wraps up the first season of their new Hunted TV show. Viewers seem to have some very strong opinions about this series. Some would like to see it cancelled while others are ready for a second season.
The Hunted TV show on CBS follows nine teams of two in a real-life manhunt as they attempt to evade capture in today’s digital world. Highly skilled investigators in the field and in a Command Center combine state-of-the-art tracking methods with traditional tactics to pursue and catch them. A grand prize of $250,000 is awarded to each team of two that successfully evades being caught for up to 28 days.
The series debuted on a Sunday evening in January, following a highly-rated NFL game. To no surprise, the first episode of Hunted scored big ratings, averaging a 4.06 in the 18-49 demographic with 11.85 million.
A few days later, in its usual Wednesday night timeslot, the ratings were not nearly as good. Episode two averaged a 1.33 in the demo with 5.48 million viewers. The numbers have dropped lower and lower as the weeks have progressed.
Though this series certainly isn’t a hit, the ratings could be worse. I suspect Hunted doesn’t cost much to produce so I’m inclined to think that CBS will renew it for a second season. However, I certainly wouldn’t be shocked if the network cancelled it instead.
But, what do you think? Would you watch a second season of the Hunted TV show or, is one season enough?
I think the show is amazing, frustrating, irritating, suspenseful and the best new “reality” show out there. You know some of it is scripted but it is fun to see evasion and tracking tehniques at work. Keep shows coming.
I love this show. It is amazing to see how many ways a person can be located. It is also interesting how skilled some people are at evading the law. People on medication could never do it.
I don’t just want to see another season! I want to be on the show!! Some of these people made some really stupid mistakes and I’d like to show the viewers how “One ole gal and her old hubby” would do it right! Call Me!
Just renew it already…please.
Of course! Loved this show, even if the final rules were totally bs. But definitely what I looked forward to watching every week!
This is such an interesting show, I’d love to see another season.
Definitely, I love this show!! Please, bring on season 2.
BRING ON SEASON 2!!!
Unbelievable premiss. This is a non-reality show. Can’t watch its so unbelievable. I bet those who like think pro wrestling is real too!
Great show we enjoyed it was nice see all the things Big Brother has to watch us. Seemed like show was about 15 minutes long. Only thing why can’t law can not catch the bad guys.
I like the show but the rules favor the hunters far too much. I hope that the show will continue but with better odds for the hunted.
Love it !!!!!!!
two things that made this show below average – A) the fugitives are in a unique spot of using friends/family/cohorts to move them, yet don’t have any responsibility for withholding truths. “I’m not going to answer that” isn’t an acceptable answer for anyone protecting a felon. Likewise – with a camera crew running around, people are more willing to help fugitives for their 15 minutes of fame – they straight up tell them, this is part of a show don’t tell the authorities anything… B) as mentioned – the money/fly thing is garbage, I have a feeling if you could… Read more »
didn’t watch season 1, why would watch season 2?
I agree with some others, the end of the show is to restrictive especially, really not fair to have to go to a bank and letting the hunters know exactly where they are and how they have to escape (by air in this case) within 100 mile radius, that part needs to be tweaked, didn’t like that, otherwise great show !!