Claudia Winkleman

The Traitors Series Three Power Ranking: Week One

The 22 contestants of The Traitors stand outside the castle awaiting Claudia Winkleman's instructions

Yes, The Traitors, that high camp masterpiece of reality TV, is back to release us from our January blues with more hilariously hubristic schemes, disturbingly primitive groupthink and luxury knitwear.

There have been several twists to the game this year: there are slightly more contestants (25, up from 22), and those who make it to the final will no longer have to reveal their allegiances when banished. Most welcome of all are the added incentives for Traitors to sabotage the missions, which many considered to be skippable interludes.

BBC sets The Traitors to ring in the new year

Claudia Winkleman, a woman with a light skin tone, and dark hair with a long fringe, stands in front of a large round table surrounded by seats

After series two’s nail-biting finale, we’re all ready for a fresh batch of contestants to join Claudia Winkleman – and her knitwear collection – in her Scottish castle. 22 players will enter the contest and be split into ‘Traitors’ and ‘Faithfuls.’ Although they can say which side they prefer, the choice is ultimately Winkleman’s to make.

From Carmy's white T-shirts in The Bear to Euphoria make-up: 10 times TV caused a fashion frenzy

Such fuss over the most simple of fashion statements would suggest that TV has become the catwalk of our times.

In light of this, we took a look back at ten series which either sparked a trend or played a part in its proliferation. For good or bad.

The Traitors to be turned into film for Comic Relief with all-star lineup

A movie poster for a spoof film adaptation of The Traitors

The Traitors: The Movie will star Suranne Jones (Vigil) as presenter Claudia Winkleman, Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’s Baby) as contestant Diane and Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) as Harry. Expect to see all the iconic moments from the series, from Ross’s winking, Harry’s scheming and Diane’s murder.

Corporals, clairvoyants and recruitment managers: meet the 22 contestants of The Traitors series two

Claudia Winkleman stands in front of the cast of The Traitors series two, who stand in front of a gloomy Scottish castle

Could they not just go backpacking around South East Asia instead of backstabbing around the Scottish Highlands? Perhaps, but their loss of marbles is our gloriously watchable gain. I guess there is the £120,000 up for grabs.

As we saw in the first series, no matter a contestant's intuition or intellect, the game will always follow a course as wildly unpredictable as humans are irrational.

But we've still scoured their profiles to discern who might make good Faithful or Traitor material. So read on for some mission statements that will no doubt prove ludicrously bold.

Everything you need to know about The Traitors before series two

Albeit in the form of a fresh hell for its participants.

There was something slightly sadistic about how gripped millions of us were last year, watching 22 people descend into the very depths of paranoid despair as they systematically picked off one another. But you just couldn't deny how fascinating it was to see, writ-large, the processes (in-group and out-group, herd mentality) we'd only really read about in our A-Level psychology textbooks.