The BBC loved recent success with its second season of The Traitors, which drew its highest ever viewers with its second season finale airing on Friday night within the UK.
A reported peak of 6.9million tuned in to find the winner of the ‘blink murder’-inspired actuality TV present, set in a Scottish citadel, the place ‘faithfuls’ should attempt to guess the id of the ‘traitors’ who’re in the meantime making an attempt to bump them off one after the other. This determine was up by 2.2million on the primary season a yr in the past.
After Friday night’s tense finale, the present’s winner pocketed a prize of £95,000 and instructed the BBC: “My legs are shaking. I just won £95,000. I underestimated this massively, you come here and there’s 22 amazing people, and from the off I’ve been a traitor.”
They added: “I’ve had sufficient of being naughty and being dangerous, as a result of that was subsequent degree. I didn’t know I might lie that nicely and stick with it.
“The first couple of days I was struggling, because you’re lying to people and building relationships out of a lie. It was just mad.”
The present is among the BBC’s greatest hits in recent times, and has already been commissioned for a 3rd sequence. The Traitors is produced by All3Media-backed Squid Game: The Challenge maker Studio Lambert and the U.S. model has simply kicked off on Peacock.
A 3rd sequence for the UK has already been commissioned.