The Traitors UK (BBC1)

The BBC are usually better at casting their Celeb series so I'll keep the faith for now and Claudia knows how to steer the ship even if it's getting messy
 

2014

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I can see this being quite hard to cast as a UK celeb series needs the people who don’t care about being messy and unpopular, which..doesn’t tend to go over well with UK audiences. Carol Vorderman would be an amazing choice though
 
It’s not actually asking that much of the celebrities in comparison to other celeb versions of shows (they don’t have to become amazing ballroom dancers, make Michelin starred food under pressure in kitchens, rough it in difficult overseas terrains etc). Maybe for the physical challenges it is demanding, but they’re not actually really very interesting to me anyway! All they have to do is go to Scotland (?) and pretend to be bad or figure out who is pretending to be bad. So hopefully they can get a good mix of names and not the usual celeb show circuit names (TOWIE, Chelsea, Gogglebox faces etc).
 
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I can see this being quite hard to cast as a UK celeb series needs the people who don’t care about being messy and unpopular, which..doesn’t tend to go over well with UK audiences. Carol Vorderman would be an amazing choice though
She so fucking would. I think she’d get banished quite quickly though as contestants would assume she could play a great game and therefore mistrust her.
 
Watching the Canadian (second) series and the product placement is hilarious.

There’s a close up of Jacob’s Creek bottles at least twice per episode and in the latest one the host swanned in slow motion to a Nissan - zoom in on the logo - and there was a shot of it gliding majestically down a picturesque road.

There’s about 14 gays as well.
 
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Canada S2 and New Zealand S2

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So far, yes! There’s a weirdly personal edge to the accusations both in and out of the round table but it’s riveting television all the same. The choice of traitors is great bar one of them, but it feels vital in all the right ways.

Karine is an absolute icon.
This is good to hear I really struggled with Canada season 1 so will have to give this season a go
 

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