It's very obvious that a lot of this show is stage-managed. 'New associates' (aka total strangers) mysteriously pull up and offer the fugitives lifts, even give them refuge in their homes. The hunters know all sorts of stuff that they could not logically know - or, then again, suddenly don't know stuff that you would think they would. The hunted make moves that appear completely random. And, most mysterious and improbable of all, everybody seems to want to go to Birmingham. There's a pretty big product placement angle and, just as they make a point of featuring certain hotels, it looks as though Birmingham council are paying people to go there. After all, it's the only way anybody would...
It's this close to being a completely pointless fake. The only thing that vouches for the show's authenticity is the obviously genuine reactions of both hunters and hunted. But that doesn't mean that situations are not being set up between them by the producers, they clearly are. And I'm 99% certain that the winner is picked beforehand. In fact, we had them picked out at an early stage - not because they were particularly smart or anything, but because they were the type of person that the show obviously wants to win.
