Endemol Shine Group announced that factual hit Hunted has been sold to Russia. NTV Channel in Russia has commissioned a first series of Hunted, which sees groups of ordinary people go on the run, while a crack team of some of the world’s best investigators tracks them down.

Produced by Weit Media, the primetime series will dramatically explore the scale of the surveillance state’s all-seeing gaze. The original social experiment will follow the fugitives every step of the way.

Created by Shine TV, part of Endemol Shine Group in the UK, where the show premiered on Channel 4 last year, Hunted has now sold to the U.S, China, Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands. The factual format debuted to the international mark