The Traitors
The Traitors UK returns with a celebrity series and series four confirmed
With British celebs such as Ekin-Su and John Bercow heading across the pond for The Traitors US, it’s no surprise that the BBC has chosen to commission a celebrity series for the UK.
Our Friend in Wales: Edward Russell
It doesn’t matter where we are in our career, we never stop networking. I was with a colleague at the RTS Programme Awards in March. As we watched Charlotte Moore presenting the Outstanding Achievement Award to Stephen Lambert, we mused how, irrespective of Studio Lambert’s run of successes with shows such as The Traitors, Squid Game: The Challenge and Boarders, even someone at that level is still probably having conversations about the next commission or series they’re working on.
The Traitors to be turned into film for Comic Relief with all-star lineup
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.
Georgia Hobbs on her Emmy award-winning hair and makeup for Bridgerton
First up with advice at the late-January session was trainee Miriam Sumeray, who said: “As a trainee, the thing that’s going to set you apart is your soft skills more than your practical skills.” She added that being “personable and organised” were key.
Sumeray recommended using the ScreenSkills Trainee Finder scheme, which had helped her land her first jobs in the industry.
ITV recommissions Deal or No Deal with Stephen Mulhern
The game show is now set to return to ITV1 and ITVX, along with four celebrity specials.
The show is produced by Remarkable Entertainment, a Banijay UK company, and sees contestants try to win a cash prize as they test their luck against the devious Banker.
Top 10 greatest moments of The Traitors series two
From panto villainy to Jazatha Christie, high camp funerals to heart-breaking betrayals: most shows can only hope to have one, maybe two moments of the year, but series two served up several.
Here's our top ten.
1. "Paul just couldn't be my son... But Ross is"
Corporals, clairvoyants and recruitment managers: meet the 22 contestants of The Traitors series two
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.
What’s On TV This Week: 2nd January – 7th January
Wednesday
The Traitors
BBC One, 9.00pm
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.