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‘Manhunt’ TV show
will film on Kauai

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By Tim Ryan
Star-Bulletin

A "Manhunt" starts on Kauai next month with all the trappings of World Wrestling Federation's "Smackdown," "Survivor" and "The Fugitive" rolled into one hourlong, reality-based program.

The United Paramount Network expects to complete a deal within a week with WWF Entertainment and Paramount Network Television to film six episodes of "Manhunt" on the Garden Island in four weeks.

The show will be broadcast later this season, either in the spring or summer, a UPN executive said.

WWF president Vince McMahon and Christopher Crowe, producer of the TV movie "7 Days," are executive producers in association with Paramount, the executive said.

Here is the "plot," according to UPN: A team of very enthusiastic WWF-style bounty hunters are hunting contestant "prey" on "an expansive outdoor terrain."

Information about specific Kauai locations was not immediately available.

Casting for the show's hunters hasn't been completed, but it will not include anyone from the WWF.

Each segment will be filmed during a five-day period, with contestants trying to keep from being captured as they move from one part of Kauai to another during what is normally the island's rainiest time of the year.

This will be no picnic in paradise for the contestants.

The bounty hunters will have laser guns and other "non-violent weapons," and there will be booby traps and snares to help them capture their prey, the UPN official said.

Contestants and the cast of bounty hunters will be rotated each week, a UPN official said.

The official said that it has not been determined how much the cash award will be for the surviving contestant at the end of each week's competition.