- The second season of “The Traitors” UK involves its deceitful and dramatic conclusion on Friday.
- Marc Pos mentioned it took him 5 years to get the present made within the Netherlands.
- Pos says “The Traitors” captures the zeitgeist as a result of it is about about “human behavior.”
Millions of viewers are set to tune into the gripping season two finale of “The Traitors” UK on Friday.
The second run of the gloriously deceitful, meme-producing actuality present has confirmed much more profitable than the primary, drawing audiences of greater than six million an episode, per the BBC.
Season one is on the market on Peacock, with the newest season set to be accessible to stream within the coming weeks.
A second season of the US model, hosted by Alan Cumming, started this month and has proved standard with viewers.
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Meanwhile, “The Traitors Australia” has earned a cult-like following for its lower-budget however severely entertaining tackle the format.
There are additionally variations in nations together with Belgium, Norway, New Zealand and the Netherlands, which is the place the present first aired.
“The Traitors” format was dreamt up by Marc Pos again in 2014. However, it took him a very long time to get the present picked up by a community regardless of being having directed the primary season of “Big Brother” within the Netherlands, the place that format additionally originated.
“I pitched it for five years, and nobody wanted to buy it. I probably pitched it 40 or 50 times to broadcasters – some of them said to me, “Oh no, not ‘The Traitors’ once more,” Pos told GQ.
After years of tests and pilots, in November 2020 he was finally given the green light to start making the show on RTL 4, the most-watched station in the Netherlands.
“When we aired it initially of 2021, it was instantly a hit,” Pos said. “I feel by episode three there was already some curiosity from large nations just like the UK and US.”
For the uninitiated, the show brings 22 strangers together in a Scottish castle, in the case of the UK edition. The mission for the “faithfuls” is identifying an undisclosed number of traitors in their midst while completing challenges to put money in the prize pot.
Most nights the traitors strike, murdering one of the group. The remaining faithful must then argue it out around the “spherical desk” to determine who ought to be banished. Cue suspicion, backstabbing, and excessive stress.
Eleven nations have purchased the format, Pos instructed Variety, with one other 9 coming this yr.
The BBC and Peacock have each renewed the present for a 3rd season.
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Pos places the present’s success right down to viewers fascination with social conduct and the significance of belief, or lack of it, in social media and the information.
“I think the concept captures the zeitgeist of our society today,” he instructed Variety. “What can we trust? And who can we trust? I think it’s a good thing that this show took so long to get made because it’s arrived at the right time.”
Even although the viewers know what is going on on, he says the viewers can relate to those common emotions.
“People at TV channels kept telling me that if I know who the traitors are, there’s no point. But as it turns out, if you produce a show in a good manner, then it becomes a success everywhere.”
Pos instructed GQ: “It’s about human behavior. We’re all part of the human race. And deep in our minds, we react the same in these kinds of situations.”
The unique model was solid with Dutch celebrities, however Pos mentioned the BBC’s resolution to make use of unusual folks was a masterstroke. “Normal people, you don’t know them, but people are surprising,” he instructed GQ. “It’s been a success in so many countries, but the UK blows the roof off.”