Good luck trying to hunt down any evidence of Apple TV’s series The Hunt.
Next month’s premiere of The Hunt (Traqués), a French thriller series for Apple TV, has been pulled from the streamer’s schedule amid plagiarism accusations. Furthermore, any official existence of The Hunt has been scrubbed from the web, including photos and screeners on Apple’s press site and the official trailer on YouTube.
“The broadcast of our series The Hunt has been temporarily postponed,” a spokesperson for Gaumont said in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “We are currently conducting a thorough review to address any questions related to our production. We take intellectual property matters very seriously.”
TheHunt hails from creator/director Cédric Anger (Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart) and executive producers Isabelle Degeorges, Clémentine Vaudaux, Alexis Barqueiro and Sidonie Dumas. It stars Benoît Magimel Mélanie Laurent, Damien Bonnard, Manuel Guillot, Cédric Appietto, Frédéric Maranber, Angelyna Danabe-Mignot, Paul Beaurepaire, Yann Goven, Sarah Pachoud and Patrick De Vallette.
The Hunt was supposed to debut its first two episodes on Dec. 3, 2025. Subsequent episodes were supposed to roll out one per Wednesday through Dec. 31. But now, the show’s future is in serious question.
As first reported by French journalist Clement Garin, The Hunt appears to be an uncredited direct adaptation of Douglas Fairbairn’s 1973 novel Shoot. In 1974, Shoot was translated as The Hunt. The book was adapted into a 1976 movie, Shoot, directed by Harvey Hart and written by Richard Berg.
Shoot.
Apple TV’s The Hunt series follows Franck (Magimel) and his hunting buddies, who, one day, come across “another group of hunters who start targeting them without explanation,” the synopsis reads. “When one of their party is shot, Franck’s friends strike back, sending an attacker to the ground. Barely managing to escape, the four friends keep the event a secret. Franck tries to go back to his life as usual alongside his wife Krystel (Laurent), but in the next few days, he starts to feel like he and his friends are being watched, or worse, tracked by hunters who are now hell-bent on revenge.”
Guess what happens in Shoot? Right.
The Hunt is not the first fully finished series Apple has recently pulled from its schedule just ahead of its premiere. Read the saga of Jessica Chastain series The Savant here.
When it does debut, French programming has served Apple TV well. The streamer’s multilingual (French and Japanese) series Drops of God won best drama at the International Emmys. Drops of God season two premieres on Jan. 21, 2026 — you know, so long as it isn’t discovered alleged to be a total rip off.
