Last night I dreamed about a new cool reality show. It's either called "Manhunt" or "The Chase". There are eight regular people on two teams: The Fugitives and the Bounty Hunters. The fugitives are given food and supplies to survive for two weeks in the wilderness and a few hours head start. The bounty hunters have unlimited supplies that they don't have to carry themselves, and their goal is to find and return the fugitives to the home base. Now here's where the money comes in. Each fugitive returned to base is progressively worth more.

1st fugitive = $100
2nd fugitive = $500
3rd fugitive = $1000
4th fugitive = $5000
5th fugitive = $10000
6th fugitive = $25000
7th fugitive = $50000
8th fugitive = $100000

The bounty hunters only have two weeks to catch the fugitives, and only the hunters who return to base with a fugitive will get the money. The further the game goes on, the longer it takes to return a fugitive to base and return to find and catch more fugitives, but they're worth more money. But why even be a fugitive? Any free fugitive after two weeks gets $100000! That's a big incentive, but difficult to actually accomplish.

In my dream, I imagined the first season of this show. All the fugitives but two were caught during the first day, mainly because there were a series of deep ravines and rivers to cross. Some of the hunters decided to share some of the bounties, so only one hunter decided to skip the easy money and go for the big payoff ($150000 for two bounties). But the fugitives decided to work together and headed for the mountains. It took about a week for the hunter to track and find them in a meadow high up in a pine forest. By that time the two fugitives were tired, cold, and hungry from the pursuit (they were running or hiking hard for most of the day). They didn't resist, and the hunter took both of them in at the same time, but they barely made it back to base before the two weeks were up. No fugitives earned money that time, but one of them would have if they had split up in the mountains.

This show would only have to pay between $191600 and $800000 per season, and most likely a lower number. There are no props and sets, so the only production cost would be filming, which would probably be mostly hand camera and helicoptor shots.

Maybe it's a stupid idea, but I sure as hell would watch it.