Based on Whitley Strieber's best-selling novel Alien Hunter, the series premiered on April 11, 2016.
It was originally going to air at 10/9c on Monday nights before the final six episodes were abruptly pushed back two hours in the schedule to Tuesdays at midnight due to the series' poor performance in the previous slot.
[3] Hunters centers around the disappearance of a decorated Philadelphia cop's wife when he discovers an organization that hunts down alien terrorists.
Brian Lowry from Variety called the pilot "utterly generic, conceptually cynical and instantly forgettable.
"[22] Boston Herald's Mark Perigard criticized the overacting from the cast and felt that the series seems like torture porn.