A group of contestants dropped in a forest must hunt or hide – or both – to try to get their hands on £100,000. Expect heroes, villains, fragile alliances and big characters I can only assume that the brilliant minds who were locked in a vault at Channel 4 and commanded to come up with a rival to The Traitors came of age during peak Suzanne Collins fever. The new reality-competition show The Hunt: Prey vs Predator is indebted to The Hunger Games – battle takes place in an arena set in a 100-acre wood (Pooh could never ) and the contenders charge off from podiums in the middle of it when a klaxon sounds. I would love to know how furiously they argued for a lethal element (“Come on, one longbow! Just one!”), but for now at least we remain in the realm of cash prizes only. The pot is £100,000. What do the 10 players have to do to secure it? First, they must divide themselves into two teams: predators and prey. Why would you want to be prey? Because the hunted get to take part in challenges scattered across the arena that will win them shares in the prize pot, which they will get to keep – unless a predator captures them. If that happens, the money is passed over and the roles swap: the hunted becomes the hunter. And on the swapsies go over nine weeks, with the prey voting one predator out each time. Continue reading...