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BBC to screen The Traitors Australia

Uk viewers will get their summer fix of treachery and suspicion with a little dose of Rodger Corser.

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The Traitors Australia has been acquired by the BBC, where viewers can’t get enough of the mystery format.

The series hosted by Rodger Corser will screen on BBC Three at 8pm on Sunday 9th July and all 12 episodes will be available as a boxset on BBC iPlayer.

“For those who are new to The Traitors, it is a psychological reality game show centred around tactics, betrayal, suspicion and manipulation. Should the Faithful contestants eliminate all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund. If a Traitor makes it to the end, they steal the money,” says BBC.

Nasfim Haque, Head of Content at BBC Three says: “The Traitors is an addictively fiendish format and I am so pleased that viewers can get their summer fix of treachery and suspicion as we head Down Under for the Australian version of the show on BBC Three and iPlayer.”

One review comparing UK, US and Australian versions described the Aussie version as having “the weakest production values but the most fascinating game play.”

A second season will screen on 10 later this year, including with Gyton Grantley, Hannah Ferrier, Ash Pollard and Luke Toki playing.

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  1. I loved season one. 10 and Shine Endemol once again delivering a fine local version of a format we can be proud of. I actually made it to the last round of auditions for season two but didn’t make it. So close! Maybe season three…

  2. I know that the production value visually wasn’t the best but I assume they were fairly constrained – they booked out a hotel that had to go back to normal operations after filming. I do also think the Aussie version had better challenges. Editing could have been better (someone gets introduced with their big intro … they are an endgame player or gone that ep).

    Not to mention how the UK and US versions were filmed together, in the same castle with similar (inferior) challenges on both … so they had economics of scale to stretch the dollar/pound.

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