Hunted: critics 'obsessed' with new reality chase show

Real-life thriller in which fugitives flee surveillance team gets some reviewers breathless, but are there better things on YouTube?

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Channel 4's new reality show, Hunted, in which ordinary people have to evade capture by a professional surveillance team, might be a game, but it's a "real thriller" say reviewers.

In the show fourteen "ordinary members of the public" are challenged to disappear for 28 days while avoiding a group of 30 investigators including former intelligence operatives, counterterrorism officers, analysts, psychological profilers and cyber security experts.

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