Release the Hounds is a British television game show that was broadcast on ITV2 from October 2013 to February 2018.
The show, hosted first by Reggie Yates and later by Matt Edmondson, culminates in the participants attempting to complete scary gruesome challenges in order to find keys to unlock chests containing money and then being chased by dogs in the hope of escaping and winning the cash prize.
Having attracted 650,000+ viewers, a further six programmes were commissioned in January 2014, to be made by Gogglebox Entertainment and latterly Primal Media both run by Mat Steiner and Adam Wood.
The show purported to take place in a haunted country estate in the English hills but was actually filmed at Bramley Ordnance Depot in north Hampshire.
"[1] The South Wales Argus was more scathing, saying the contestants appear "to have been brought down by none other than Lassie" and "the pursuit carries all the fear factor of an Ashleigh and Pudsey routine.