Run for Time

Run for Time (Chinese: 全员加速中; pinyin: Quányuán Jiāsù Zhōng, literally All Members Accelerating), is a Chinese variety show broadcasting on Hunan Television channel. The idea of the show is based on Fuji Television Network, Inc's Run for money: Tōsō-chū, also known as (Japanese: run for money 逃走中) (run for money 逃走中).^[1] In September 2017, Hunan TV announced the show would not be renewed for its third season.^[2]

Run for Time
Genre	Variety show
Based on	Run for Money Tosochuu by Fuji TV (CX)
Country of origin	China
Original language	Mandarin
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	21
Production
Production location	Mainland China
Camera setup	Multicamera setup
Running time	90 minutes
Original release
Network	Hunan Television
Release	6 November 2015 (2015-11-06) – present
Related
Run for money: Tōsō-chū, Cha$e

In 2022, Hunan TV announced that the show will be returning in 2023 after a break of 7 years. Season 3 premiered on 10 June 2023.^[3]

Cast

Run for Time features an all-star cast.^[4]

Season 1

• Huang Xiaoming
• Jia Nailiang
• Luo Jin
• TFBOYS: Wang Yuan
• TFBOYS: Yi Yangqianxi
• TFBOYS: Wang Junkai
• Du Chun
• Ada Choi
• Tian Liang
• Zang Hongna
• Shawn Dou
• Li Yundi
• Li Xiaolu
• Bao Chunlai
• Fan Tiantian
• Zhang Yijie
• Zhang Liang
• Chen Ou
• Song Weilong (actor/model)
• SNH48: Ju Jingyi
• SNH48: Zhao Jiamin
• Huang Qishan
• Shen Mengchen
• Happy Family: Xie Na
• Chen Xiang
• Wang Likun
• Hawick Lau
• Jia Ling
• Elvis Han
• Jin Chen
• Zhang Xinyu
• Huang Chia-chien
• Sun Jian
• Huang Yali
• Wang Likun
• Li Xiaolu
• Gan Wei
• Wang Kai
• The Flowers: Da Zhangwei
• Zeng Shunxi
• Gigi Leung
• Ma Ke
• SHE: ELLA
• Twins: Ah Sa
• Yu Haoming
• A-Lin
• Qu Ying
• Bai Kainan
• Shen Ling
• Chen Sicheng
• Xiaoshenyang
• Wang Baoqiang
• Ady An

Season 2

• Huang Jingyu (Censored from recorded episode due to SARFT)
• Xu Weizhou (Censored from recorded episode due to SARFT)
• Du Chun
• Tian Liang
• Song Xiaobao
• Happy Family: Du Haitao
• Li Jia Hang
• Happy Family: Wu Xin
• Jia Nailiang
• The Flowers: Da Zhangwei
• Lin Yun
• SHE: ELLA
• Shen Mengchen
• Liu Wen
• Myolie Wu
• Fahrenheit: Jiro Wang (Wang Dong-cheng)
• Wei Daxun
• Qiao Shan
• Twins: Ah Sa
• Zhang Liang
• Girls' Generation Jessica Jung
• Hwang Chi Yeul
• Gary Chaw

Season 3

• William Chan
• Gao Hanyu
• Jin Mengjia
• Li Jian
• Sdanny Lee
• Ouyang Nana
• Qiao Xin
• Ma Jiaqi
• Ding Chengxin
• Song Yaxuan
• Liu Yaowen
• Zhang Zhenyuan
• Yan Haoxiang
• He Junlin
• Sun Yan
• Wu Dajing

Rules

In every season 1 episode of Run for Time, four hunters are sent out to capture seventeen or eighteen guest stars (or escapees). For every second the escapees survive, they gain 50 in-game credits, which will accumulate over the first eight episodes for the finals (ninth episode). If the escapees are caught by the hunters, they will be eliminated and are permitted to keep only ten percent of their credits for that particular round. Meanwhile, they have to complete certain tasks thrown to them in a given time frame while hiding from the hunters. If the escapees find a "refuge", they can choose to sign out and leave with the credits they have. If the escapees survive the whole course of 90 minutes (sometimes 100 minutes), they will be handsomely rewarded with 270,000 credits (or 300,000 in a 100-minute game).

The hunters cannot have any sort of communication with the escapees. They can only sprint when they see an escapee, and they cannot determine the escapee's location by looking for the cameramen. If the escapees manage to hide or run away from the hunter, the hunter will give up the chase.