BBC One/Cinemax Eyeing Second Season Order For ‘Hunted’, Adds Ben Harris To Writing Team

Hunted, the new spy drama from former X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz, doesn’t premiere until next month, but both BBC One and Cinemax are already eyeing a possible second season, TVWise understands.

With that in mind, Kudos Film & TV, which produces the series with Spotnitz’s Big Light Productions and HBO’s Cinemax, has hired British writer Ben Harris to join the writing team for a potential second run. Harris, who is represented by Curtis Brown, has most recently been working on The Musketeers, BBC One’s upcoming ten-part series.

No formal decision will be taken until Hunted has aired on both sides of the Atlantic, as it is standard practice for the BBC to wait until a series has been broadcast before deciding its future. Even so, sources say executives at both networks are high on the show, and that they would not have approved additional hires unless they considered a renewal highly likely. The bigger question, one insider suggested, is how many episodes a second season would run to.

Created by Spotnitz, Hunted stars Melissa George as Sam Hunter, an operative for a private intelligence firm who survives an attempt on her life and returns to work determined to find out which of her colleagues betrayed her. Adam Rayner, Stephen Dillane and Patrick Malahide co-star.

The eight-part series premieres on BBC One on Thursday 4 October and on Cinemax in the US on Friday 19 October.