Hunted - Channel 4

[iona]

If it involved a missing child though I expect they would pull out all the stops.

I regularly went missing from the age of 12 onwards and the police never found me - I usually ended up getting grassed up by someone. Usually some random street drinker or drug addict Lasted longer than a month then, although I didn't have someone with a camera following me around making things difficult.

 

[DotCommunist]

I was thinking the survival skills learnt of in homelesness would be an asset here- fair enough for the ones who want to do a wilderness survival hideout but I'd last less time than Roaul Moat managed. Far better to lose yourself in the teeming masses of a city. You get an invisibility cloak to many if you look homeless

 

[iona]

I was thinking the survival skills learnt of in homelesness would be an asset here- fair enough for the ones who want to do a wilderness survival hideout but I'd last less time than Roaul Moat managed. Far better to lose yourself in the teeming masses of a city. You get an invisibility cloak to many if you look homeless

CCTV and that but. You might get away with it IRL but you know for the telly they'd get you with facial recognition shit.

 

[Santino]

I assume that for the telly, 'facial recognition' means 'the camera person following you texts the studio whenever they notice a CCTV camera, and some months later a researcher tracks down the footage and edits it into the programme'.

 

[joustmaster]

I assume that for the telly, 'facial recognition' means 'the camera person following you texts the studio whenever they notice a CCTV camera, and some months later a researcher tracks down the footage and edits it into the programme'.

I think a lot of the CCTV footage was just faked.

 

[iona]

I assume that for the telly, 'facial recognition' means 'the camera person following you texts the studio whenever they notice a CCTV camera, and some months later a researcher tracks down the footage and edits it into the programme'.

Yeah, that's what I meant

 

[existentialist]

I think a lot of the CCTV footage was just faked.

Yeah, that's what I meant

They've acknowledged that quite openly, though: every programme starts with a phrase about "replicating the powers of the state" in regard to CCTV and ANPR.

They have a third camera team which follows the fugitives and makes "CCTV footage" which is not released to the hunter team until some time later (presumably to simulate the real thing).

If that is all there is to it, it's a bit crap, because in reality the hunter team would have hours of footage from all over the place to review, and the time delay would be a lot longer (not to mention that in real life the police always seem to find that the important coverage has been lost )

I do hope that it isn't more fake than that - I was a bit dubious about how a surveillance team "just happened" to be at a caravan park looking for a couple of fugitives and spotted a different pair, and it occurred to me that there may have been a bit of a production mixup that let that occur. The chances of a completely unrelated pair of fugitives happening to be somewhere another pair were supposedly heading in the direction of seemed to me a bit of an unlikely coincidence.

 

[joustmaster]

There were lots of ideas that seemed spoon fed to the hunting team.

But it would be shit if no one was found

 

[Fozzie Bear]

New series tonight I think.

 

[existentialist]

New series tonight I think.

You know, I was just wondering the other week whether there might be another series! Unfortunately, my TV aerial needs fixing, so I shall have to see if I can torrent it from somewhere. Or 4OD it, but that wasn't successful last time.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

You know, I was just wondering the other week whether there might be another series! Unfortunately, my TV aerial needs fixing, so I shall have to see if I can torrent it from somewhere. Or 4OD it, but that wasn't successful last time.

9pm! Get round a mates!

 

[chilango]

Oh. I enjoyed that. Busy planning my own route and refusing to tell my wife

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Yeah it was fun. I think them all setting off together was a good idea.

I quite liked the way family life was suddenly interrupted in the first series but I think this will work better in terms of getting to know the characters.

 

[Plumdaff]

I felt sorry for the woman with the chatty mum. This is why you have to tell your family nothing.

 

[existentialist]

Well, 4OD on my desktop is still borked. It might work on my telly, though.

And I don't think any of my mates are likely to be into Hunted, so I think it's aerial-fixing time!

 

[existentialist]

I felt sorry for the woman with the chatty mum. This is why you have to tell your family nothing.

A place I used to work for did training for professionals in this line of activity. Even accounting for the fact that this was before smartphones, ANPR, and CCTV everywhere, some of the examples they gave of how people fuck up on operational security were glaringly obvious afterwards, but even quite smart people made them. And stuff like "Well, I'll tell one person, that's got to be OK" were right up there near the top

I think you have to be quite significantly bastard-like to be able to do this kind of thing and stand any chance.

 

[Plumdaff]

This episode was a dissection of my inverse class prejudice as I went from ranting about cheap scabs to sympathising with shopping loud poshos in five minutes.

 

[chilango]

I so want to go on this

 

[sim667]

I would love to give it a go and I've got a feeling I could probably do alright at it.

Its seems, letting more people into your circle, and not securing/wiping your technology are the main pitfalls.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It was laughing my head off at the army blokes getting caught whilst bumbling cycle man is chugging on.

Also fair play to the poshoes for at least trying to have a good time while on the run instead of living like monks. Although frankly it was easy to see why the barman took a dislike to them.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Also - somewhere like urban might be a better way of organising going on the run than facebook etc assuming that you could keep your profile separate from your real name and protect passwords etc. Quite a big dispersed network of people you have a connection with but not easy to suss out who they are to outsiders...

 

[Fozzie Bear]

And another thing

Why have they not had someone on who can do all the crypto/TOR/dark web stuff that is supposed to be untraceable? In the first series that had someone who they bigged up as a super IT guy but his skills basically consisted of setting up a locked twitter account!

 

[Supine]

Also - somewhere like urban might be a better way of organising going on the run than facebook etc assuming that you could keep your profile separate from your real name and protect passwords etc. Quite a big dispersed network of people you have a connection with but not easy to suss out who they are to outsiders...

I'll put you up for a night (calls £250 hotline...)

 

[chilango]

Also - somewhere like urban might be a better way of organising going on the run than facebook etc assuming that you could keep your profile separate from your real name and protect passwords etc. Quite a big dispersed network of people you have a connection with but not easy to suss out who they are to outsiders...

Stop giving away my strategy

 

[chilango]

And another thing

Why have they not had someone on who can do all the crypto/TOR/dark web stuff that is supposed to be untraceable? In the first series that had someone who they bigged up as a super IT guy but his skills basically consisted of setting up a locked twitter account!

The same reason they haven't had anyone properly skilled in "going rural".

They'd win.

And easily.

 

[chilango]

Sadly, I expect my application for the next series will be rejected.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Sadly, I expect my application for the next series will be rejected.

It would be awesome if you did it... they seem to like having a token anti-establishment rebel on there so you could major on that...

 

[sim667]

Sadly, I expect my application for the next series will be rejected.

I've been sorely tempted to apply, but I don't think work would let me have a month off

 

[Saffy]

I love this programme! As a family we've had a massive discussion on how to stay unseen for 30 days. We've gone from legging it to North Wales or the Lake District and camping to settling on getting yourself delivered in a massive box on a pallet to a storage container and seeing the month out in there. You would have obviously rented it for cash and filled it with everything you'd need months before hand.

Would feel a bit sorry for the camera person though.

 

[heinous seamus]

I like the idea of going on this show. Fuck actually going on the telly though!