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You read that certain programmes are "gripping the nation" then see they get an audience of about three million. Even if that's trebled by subsequent viewing it's still only on a par with a regular episode of Crossroads fifty years ago.

I've watched the celebrity version, having avoided previous "civilian" versions.

To give it a positive spin, it is a shining example of the technical skills that make compelling TV. A hat tip to the editors and producers who have worked their magic, despite the obvious flaws in the format. I never thought a Joe Marler/Nick Mohammed bromance would be a thing but it has been fascinating to watch the detective duo go to work while everyone else is flailing around. Disposable but fun.

Yes, all the Hammer horror melodramatic bullshit is ridiculous, but kind of fun.

One thing puzzles me : presumably, the “Traitors” have to get up in the middle of the feckin’ night to go to the turret and decide who’s going to get “murdered” next. How do they do that without getting noticed by anybody else?

Presumably, they’re all locked up for the night in individual cells/rooms ?

What is this 'traitors' of which you speak? Is my miserable existence the poorer for never having heard of it?

It’s the final episode tonight. Watch it - you’ll soon pick it up.

I've only watched a bit of it but because I'm desperate for topical material for the Gold TV Cracker competition I might just watch the final episode purely for research purposes.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 6:13 pm It’s the final episode tonight. Watch it - you’ll soon pick it up.

I'm good, thanks.

15 minutes in and I’m changing my mind. Finding all the tedious sturm und drang between the remaining celebs about who’s a bad yin and who isn’t rather tedious. .

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 6:03 pm

One thing puzzles me : presumably, the “Traitors” have to get up in the middle of the feckin’ night to go to the turret and decide who’s going to get “murdered” next. How do they do that without getting noticed by anybody else?

Presumably, they’re all locked up for the night in individual cells/rooms ?

I googled. Seems they are all taken individually and blindfold to the local Marriott hotel, kept there overnight, and are then brought separately and in isolation back to the castle in the morning, when the “murdered” faithful doesn’t get breakfast.