The Traitors: The Movie will star Suranne Jones (Vigil) as presenter Claudia Winkleman, Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’s Baby) as contestant Diane and Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton) as Harry. Expect to see all the iconic moments from the series, from Ross’s winking, Harry’s scheming and Diane’s murder.
First up with advice at the late-January session was trainee Miriam Sumeray, who said: “As a trainee, the thing that’s going to set you apart is your soft skills more than your practical skills.” She added that being “personable and organised” were key.
Sumeray recommended using the ScreenSkills Trainee Finder scheme, which had helped her land her first jobs in the industry.
The game show is now set to return to ITV1 and ITVX, along with four celebrity specials.
The show is produced by Remarkable Entertainment, a Banijay UK company, and sees contestants try to win a cash prize as they test their luck against the devious Banker.
From panto villainy to Jazatha Christie, high camp funerals to heart-breaking betrayals: most shows can only hope to have one, maybe two moments of the year, but series two served up several.
Here's our top ten.
Could they not just go backpacking around South East Asia instead of backstabbing around the Scottish Highlands? Perhaps, but their loss of marbles is our gloriously watchable gain. I guess there is the £120,000 up for grabs.
As we saw in the first series, no matter a contestant's intuition or intellect, the game will always follow a course as wildly unpredictable as humans are irrational.
But we've still scoured their profiles to discern who might make good Faithful or Traitor material. So read on for some mission statements that will no doubt prove ludicrously bold.
Albeit in the form of a fresh hell for its participants.
There was something slightly sadistic about how gripped millions of us were last year, watching 22 people descend into the very depths of paranoid despair as they systematically picked off one another. But you just couldn't deny how fascinating it was to see, writ-large, the processes (in-group and out-group, herd mentality) we'd only really read about in our A-Level psychology textbooks.
As well as analysing the action, the podcast will have exclusive interviews with the banished and murdered players, including bonus footage that shows the exact moment when they learn who the Traitors are.
The Traitors: Uncloaked will air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer immediately after each episode of The Traitors, which launches in early 2024. An extended version with additional guests, further theories and analysis will be available on BBC Sounds.
The announcement comes in advance of the highly-anticipated second series, which is due to return to BBC One later in 2023.
Hosted by an inscrutable Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors has won many fans for its gripping game of deception, based on the party game Mafia.
21 million audiences tuned in to watch the likes of Wilf Webster and Amanda Lovett bluff and backstab their way through the voting rounds.
"The BBC," says Head of Entertainment Kalpna Patel-Knight, "will always remain faithful to The Traitors.
The clip aired just before Strictly Come Dancing, and saw its RTS Award-winning host Claudia Winkleman donning the iconic cloak before shushing the camera. Words revealed that the series was "coming soon" to BBC One.
Several fans clocked another hint during the live Strictly broadcast. A cloaked figure was seen looming behind Winkleman as she spoke to the dancing couples awaiting their scores.
