‘The Traitors’ Season Two Greenlit By BBC
deadline.comSmash hit gameshow The Traitors has been renewed for a second season by the BBC. In one of the least surprising bits of commissioning news of the year so far, the pubcaster has opted to greenlight a 12-part series two of the Claudia Winkleman-hosted gameshow in which a group of ‘faithfuls’ try and smoke out three ‘traitors’ while living in a castle.
The group compete in challenges and each night one is ‘banished’ from the castle and another is ‘murdered’ by the ‘traitors’.
The word-of-mouth hit was all the British TV industry could talk about over Christmas, coming in for praise for its high-octane drama, diversity and range of authentic contestants.
The show attracted more than 3M viewers per episode overnight for the BBC when it aired around Christmas time and was the biggest new series for young people of the year, according to the BBC.
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