Peacock has picked up a second season of its breakout competition series “The Traitors” hosted by Alan Cumming.
The series has scored a positive critical reaction and strong word-of-mouth since its full season was released on January 12th, whilst a reunion special hosted by Andy Cohen is set to take place on February 28th.
Based on a Dutch format and produced by Studio Lambert (“The Circle”), the series features twenty players working together to complete challenges and grow the show’s prize pool.
Three of the players, however, are designated as traitors. These traitors don’t work to sabotage the game, but they do choose a player to ‘murder’ (ie. eliminate) after the full group casts out another contestant.
Studio Lambert CEO Stephen Lambert says: “We hugely enjoyed making the US version of this hit format with NBC and giving Peacock’s audience a highly bingeable murder mystery game full of intrigue and dramatic twists. This is the game which shows how people judge each other, often leaping to false conclusions, in a way that’s revealing and entertaining, and we’re excited to be making a second season with Alan as together we build on the success of the first.”
Peacock doesn’t share ratings data for its shows so it’s not clear how well the show is actually doing numbers-wise. Lambert, Mike Cotton, Toni Ireland, Sam Rees-Jones, Tim Harcourt and Jack Burgess executive produce the series.
Source: TV Line
