On the final day, any remaining contestants must reach a designated "extraction" point before being captured, winning a share of £100,000.

From series two, the contestants are escorted to a public area and given a head start before the Hunters begin their search and are given the names of their targets.

During their time on the run the Fugitives can use any existing connections, or ask members of the general public, to assist them in avoiding capture.

Whilst the Fugitives attempt to avoid using technology and thus detection, the Hunters use a vast array of different "powers of the state", such as closed circuit surveillance, phone records and number plate recognition to pinpoint their chosen target.

Hunters additionally operate throughout the country through use of two-person ground teams that can deploy immediately under order of the Chief.

The ground teams also perform reconnaissance at Fugitives' homes and attempt to goad family members or loved ones for information and/or may be observed to determine any irregularities in their daily routines.

When a Fugitive is caught, they are told their time on the run is over and are escorted to a vehicle for debrief back at the Hunters’ headquarters.

The roof of the Edgbaston Car Park, near the Bullring Shopping Centre in Birmingham served as the extraction point.

Ten celebrities began at Shrewsbury Prison, with Nikesh Patel joining later due to testing positive for COVID-19.

As in Season 4 of the Civilian Version, none of the competitors made it to safety, with Bobby Seagull being captured at the Extraction Point at Headcorn Aerodrome.

Freedom of Information requests are submitted by the Hunters to find the location of state-owned CCTV cameras positioned throughout the British mainland.

The Hunters are overseen by Kevin O’Leary, an independent adjudicator and former Head of Covert Operations for the Metropolitan Police who does not appear on the show.

[9] The Telegraph review complimented the series, saying the "game show element was very effective, playing with our instinctive tendency to take the side of the pursued, and skilfully edited to keep the tension high".

[10] The Daily Mirror's Adam Postan described the series as "the biggest TV joke of the year", pointing out that most of the surveillance powers were replicated by methods that were unexplained.

[11] In the United States, the show was produced by Endemol Shine North America under the same title Hunted, which premiered on 22 January 2017 on CBS.

In Spain, the show was produced by Movistar+ in collaboration with Shine Iberia under the title La huida ("The Escape"), which premiered on 8 April 2016 on #0.

[15] In Russia, the show was produced by WeiT Media under the title Охота ("The Hunt"),[16] which premiered on 17 September 2016 on free-to-air network NTV.

In the Netherlands, the show is produced by Simpel Media and commissioned by AVROTROS under the same title Hunted, which premiered on 17 October 2016 on NPO 3.

In Italy, Celebrity Hunted is the first non-fiction Italian product of Amazon Prime Video, which commissioned it to Endemol Shine Group.