The Vancouver-filmed inaugural season of The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh, broke out on Netflix with 3.5 million views, making it #7 on the global streamer’s Top 10 shows of last week.
This was a particularly strong debut given Netflix only has the U.S. rights to season one of the NBC show.
When the world’s most dangerous criminals escape from a top secret prison known as The Pit, former FBI agent Bex Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) is tasked with hunting them down to protect civilians as well as the secret of the Pit itself.
Melissa Roxburgh as profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, Nick Wechsler as Oliver Odell, Patrick Sabongui’as CIA agent Ryan Hassan, Josh McKenzie as Shane Florence, a prison guard at the Pit who joins the team and Sara Garcia as Army intelligence officer and major Jennifer Morales.
The Hunting Party:
Co-Showrunners: JJ Bailey, Jake Coburn.
Cast: Melissa Roxburgh, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia, Josh McKenzie, Kyra Leroux.
Producers: Jake Coburn Productions, Universal Television.
Filming in Vancouver:
ChefB meets Melissa Roxburgh on set in Vancouver.
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Episode 8: Denise Glenn.
The student becomes the master, when an escaped serial killer from the Pit decides to adopt another inmate’s style of killing as a way of paying homage to them.
An escapee’s handiwork in downtown Vancouver’s Victory Square as St. Louis on October 24th.
The Hunting Party on set.
Season one finale.
200 backgrounders poisoned by the latest serial killer escapee at a gala event filmed in November 2024 on the BCIT Aerospace Campus in Richmond.
Production moved from Vancouver to New York City for season 2.