Strictly’s Claudia Winkleman new psychological game show ‘The Traitors’ awaiting release date

The fringed Strictly Come Dancing presenter will front The Traitors, it has been announced, which takes place in a castle in the Scottish Highlands and sees contestants play a game built around “strategy and suspicion”.

Based on the Dutch TV series, the series will see players band together to complete physical and mental missions. If they’re successful, then money will be added to a prize pot worth up to £120,000 – though they must survive to the end of the game.

The show will see Claudia select a small number of players to be ‘Traitors’, while the rest of the contestants – known as ‘The Faithful’ – are unaware of who are they are.

Players are eliminated either at night after Traitors secretly meet and decide to ‘murder’ one of The Faithful, with the eliminated player not appearing next morning, or later in the day, as all the players meet at the ‘Round Table’ and decide to ‘banish’ a player they suspect of being a Traitor. The chosen player then reveals which side they are on.

At the end, the last remaining players share the prize pot if they are all Faithful – however, if there is still a Traitor among them, they will take all the money.

Claudia Winkleman is set to host a new psychological game show for BBC One.

Where is the BBC One show set? What has Claudia Winkleman said?

Claudia filmed the series in a castle in the Scottish Highlands.

Speaking about the show, she shared: “I’m obsessed by psychological games and I couldn’t stop watching the Dutch version of the show.

“The fact that the BBC version is set in a castle in Scotland and the producers want me to wear tweed meant I was all in.”

Claudia said of the series: “I’m obsessed by psychological games and I couldn’t stop watching the Dutch version of the show. The fact that the BBC version is set in a castle in Scotland and the producers want me to wear tweed meant I was all in.”

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How many episodes is there?

The upcoming series will feature 12 episodes.

In addition, Mike Cotton, deputy creative director of Studio Lambert, said: “The series is a nail-biting psychological adventure game. Claudia is a huge fan of the format and is the perfect puppet master to oversee this dramatic game set in the heart of the Scottish Highlands.”

When is The Traitors on TV?

Meanwhile, BBC One are yet to confirm when The Traitors will air.

The Traitors will air on BBC One. Strictly Come Dancing airs on BBC One.