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Hunters without local broadcaster

US sci-fi miniseries Hunters, filmed last year in Melbourne, is still without an Australian broadcaster.

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US sci-fi miniseries Hunters, filmed last year in Melbourne, is still without an Australian broadcaster.

The NBC-Universal production, executive produce by Walking Dead‘s Gale Anne-Hurd, is based on Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel Alien Hunter. The cast includes Nathan Phillips, Britne Oldford, Mark Coles Smith, Lewis Fitz-Gerald and Julian McMahon.

It is currently screening in the US on Syfy but has not attracted good reviews.

Syfy Australia has confirmed it won’t be screening the series in Australia.

TV Tonight has been advised no broadcaster as yet has nabbed the show, including streaming platforms.

4 Responses

  1. 0% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (4.1 average). That’s impressive. It got a rating of 5.3/10 on IMDb which is less than that of Hiding (6.5). I can see why nobody would want to touch this with a bargepole except to push it further away.

    1. Oh yeah, trust me – it really is as bad as those ratings suggest. And not even in a “so bad it’s good!” way. It’s uninteresting, unengaging, badly acted, and the only reason to watch it is if you like seeing what unpleasant thing can happen to/around characters you don’t care a whit about.

      Nobody should be upset that this “Aussie”-made series hasn’t been picked up locally.

      1. Thanks for confirming that. This, and the many like it, are the reason why I don’t admit to liking sci-fi as TV genre. I don’t want people to pity me.

        1. Most TV shows (and films for that matter) are pretty ordinary to rubbish in any genre-nothing to be ashamed of in liking Sci Fi… “Out of the Transmat closets and into the streets!”.

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