Some challenges will also offer an opportunity for players to visit the Armoury – during which one player will randomly and secretly be awarded the Shield – which awards the player immunity from being Murdered, but not from the Banishment Vote. The group then take part in a mission to win money for the prize fund. The remaining Faithful contestants will not know who has been eliminated until the following day when that person does not enter the Castle for breakfast. Should the Faithful contestants eliminate all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund, but if any Traitors make it to the end, they win the money instead.Įach night, the Traitors come together and decide upon one Faithful contestant to 'murder' – and that person will leave the game immediately. Among them are the 'Traitors' – a group of contestants selected by host Claudia Winkleman on the first day, whose goal is to eliminate the Faithfuls and claim the prize for themselves. Format Ģ2 strangers arrive at a castle in the Scottish Highlands as 'Faithful' contestants – hoping to share a prize fund worth up to £120,000.

On 27 February 2023, the BBC announced that the show had been renewed for a second series, with Winkleman returning to host. The first week's episodes were uploaded onto BBC iPlayer following the airing of the first, with each subsequent episode being available on BBC One only before being uploaded to iPlayer. The Traitors is a British reality television series broadcast on BBC One, based on the Dutch series De Verraders, which premiered on 29 November 2022 and is hosted by Claudia Winkleman.įollowing the premise of other versions of De Verraders, the show features a group of contestants participating in a game similar to the party game Mafia – In which a small group of contestants become the titular 'Traitors', and must work together to eliminate the other contestants order to win a grand prize, while the remaining contestants become 'Faithful' and are tasked to discover and banish the Traitors by voting them out, to win the grand prize.

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