Polsat (TV4) has acquired the rights to the adventure game show Hunting Season. In the Netherlands, Hunting Season – based on the most successful and most awarded YouTube series in the country – turned out to be also a big success on TV with an average market share of 20% in the key demo.
The show was created by Talpa Concept and StukTV, and a second season is set to air this summer on SBS6. Also, Amazon Prime had a next day second window and here the break-out show made it to the Top 10 Most Watched Videos. For Poland, ten episodes will be produced by Rochstar. The show is set to air this May.
The online version of Hunting Season has been voted best YouTube series in the Netherlands several times. In each episode, a duo of celebrities must flee from a team of three prison guards. These guards have one goal: to catch the fugitives within four hours. The fugitives get a 20-minute head start and have to wear a transmitter that sends a GPS coordinate to the hunters, every 10 minutes. They have been given the opportunity to arrange an escape vehicle from prison and one means of transportation for the road.
Hunting Season is a fast-paced hunt that happens in the real world, in real-time, with real bystanders, ‘absolutely anything can happen. It’s an exciting cat-and-mouse game that will keep you on the edge of your seat’, commented the creator.
