3:43 pm - 12/12/2012
Ready for America’s Next Top Katniss?
The CW has ordered two new reality shows, including one that’s clearly Hunger Games-inspired.
In The Hunt, 12tributes teams of two are dropped into the wilderness without food, water or shelter. They must compete in a game where they’ll rely on their physicality, survival skills and hunting skills to endure the harsh conditions and kill “capture” one another.
The second new CW reality series is called Perfect Score. This is a dating show where two friends compete to see who can pick their ideal mate from a group of–
Yeah, so back to The Hunt. The competition lasts a full month and the winner will receive a cash prize. No premiere date is set.
It’s been awhile since any reality show really made a successful run at a Survivor-style competition, so it will be interesting to see how this one turns out. The order follows The CW developing a drama series, The Selection, that’s been compared to The Hunger Games (the project is still alive, I’m told), and toying with the (ill-advised) idea of adapting ultra-violent Japanese cult favorite Battle Royale, which has a very similar storyline to The Hunger Games.
Perhaps The Hunt will be a way for the network to capitalize (Capitolize?) on the hit franchise, like The Vampire Diaries post-Twilight and Arrow post-Dark Knight.
So who volunteers?
Who volunteers as contestant?!
EW
CW orders 'Hunger Games'-style reality show
Ready for America’s Next Top Katniss?
The CW has ordered two new reality shows, including one that’s clearly Hunger Games-inspired.
In The Hunt, 12
The second new CW reality series is called Perfect Score. This is a dating show where two friends compete to see who can pick their ideal mate from a group of–
Yeah, so back to The Hunt. The competition lasts a full month and the winner will receive a cash prize. No premiere date is set.
It’s been awhile since any reality show really made a successful run at a Survivor-style competition, so it will be interesting to see how this one turns out. The order follows The CW developing a drama series, The Selection, that’s been compared to The Hunger Games (the project is still alive, I’m told), and toying with the (ill-advised) idea of adapting ultra-violent Japanese cult favorite Battle Royale, which has a very similar storyline to The Hunger Games.
Perhaps The Hunt will be a way for the network to capitalize (Capitolize?) on the hit franchise, like The Vampire Diaries post-Twilight and Arrow post-Dark Knight.
So who volunteers?
Who volunteers as contestant?!
EW
IT IS BAD BAD BAD BAD
Sigh. Fine, I'll watch it. Last show, though!
Seriously, what's a vegetarian supposed to eat?
j/k
I highly doubt these type of contestants are cast on the show bc of liabilities
If I lived in the world of Panem, I'd be studying up edible plants and self-defense skills in the first 12 years of my life. Not taking any chances here, I have the worst luck.
FIVE
FOUR
THREE
*trip*
BOOM
I can swim/run/hike etc and I've been in survival situations in a chunk of environments (snow, desert, forest and "tropical"). My dad used to send us out on these little "survival weekends" when my mom was working at the hospital all weekend. A+ parenting.
It also helps that I'm not afraid of the dark and, if it came down to it, I could probably kill someone if it meant I would survive. Typing that out makes me feel crazy and barbaric, but lets be real, if this were a Hunger Games situation I wouldn't even think twice unless it was someone I knew.