Extreme action with Joel Lambert in Discovery's 'Manhunt'

Featuring a former Navy Seal in an extreme version of hide-and-go-seek , the show premieres May 19 at 10 PM

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | May 16, 2014

Discovery Channel is coming with its brand new series 'Manhunt', featuring former Navy Seal Joel Lambert in an extreme version of hide-and-go-seek. The show is all set to thrill viewers as they can see Lambert rescuing himself from the world's most elite tracking team units in some treacherous terrain. The seven-episode series premieres on May 19 and will air every night at 10 PM.

Filmed on-location in the United States, Poland, South Africa, the Philippines, Panama and South Korea, each episode of Manhunt follows Lambert as he is put in unknown territory with nothing but a basic survival kit and a canteen of water; he then has up to 48 hours to reach a pre-determined extraction point, while being pursued by a different tracking unit each week. Joel is given minimal supplies to survive—and anything else he needs, he must to find along the way.

With cameras capturing the action from both perspectives, viewers will experience the high tension from both Lambert and the special operative teams. An expert in escape and evasion, Lambert's background has positioned him well to prey on each unit's hidden flaws – but evading highly specialised tracking units and combatting dehydration, hunger and the elements proves to be a greater challenge.

Manhunt is produced for DNI by Discovery Studios. For DNI, Sarah Davies is executive producer and for Discovery Studios, Eddie Barbini and Brian Knappmiller are executive producers.

Lambert is an exceptional and highly skilled former US Navy Seal who was raised in Washington State in a small logging town on the Columbia River. At 22, he went to a Navy recruiting office and did nothing but train to ensure he was at top physical condition to be accepted. In 1998, he joined the Navy and made it through BUD/S, the brutal and gruelling selection course for the SEAL teams, where he proudly served during his 10 years in the military. Some of Lambert's qualifications include heavy weapons trained; stinger missile systems qualified; Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape trained; close quarters defense and battle; Dive Supervisor; Military Free-fall trained.

Episode 1: US/Arizona, 'Testing the Eagle'

Lambert faces off against the US Army's Phantom Recon unit – a battle-tested group of trackers, supremely skilled in hunting down the most elusive of enemy targets. Their turf in southern Arizona is the harsh 75,000 acres of terrain surrounding Fort Huachuca military base, an area home to mountain lions and bears – and a much-favoured route of illegal aliens and heavily armed drug smugglers trying to gain passage into the US. If Phantom Recon weren't intimidating enough, Lambert is also being monitored by a squadron of sophisticated unmanned aerial drones, whose cameras have locked in on his every move.

Episode 2: Poland, 'Race to the Bridge'

Lambert has just 36 hours to escape and evade Poland's elite border guard, the Straz Graniczna.  Over a distance of 25 km, the border guard deploys all their assets, including thermal camera helicopters, ATVs, motorcycles, tracking dogs and world class field units, in an attempt to intercept Lambert before he reaches his extraction point. As the Straz Graniczna mobilizes dozens of troops, Lambert is forced to utilise all of his deception tactics, not to mention, make his way down a 20-metre (70 foot) cliff, and risk a daring truck ride to attempt to save himself in this battle of Polish pride vs Lambert's rigorous training.

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