{"id":222556,"date":"2026-01-02T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222556\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:46:09","slug":"the-traitors-uk-is-a-total-television-pleasure-but-it-makes-the-irish-version-look-a-bit-low-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222556\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors UK is a total television pleasure but it makes the Irish version look a bit low budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It feels like we\u2019ve been watching Claudia Winkleman on this show for more than three years, and while some things never change \u2013 such as the ageism of most contestants \u2013 the creation of a \u2018secret traitor\u2019 is a misstep\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claudia Winkleman in the new series of The Traitors. Photo: Cody Burridge\/BBC\/Studio Lambert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9c3d18af-65b6-48b2-a93f-39f6c7e41204.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Claudia Winkleman in the new series of The Traitors. Photo: Cody Burridge\/BBC\/Studio Lambert<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sometimes it feels like The Traitors is on the telly as much as the news. Or sport. No, no, nothing is on the telly as much as sport. But The Traitors is on very often. So you\u2019d think you\u2019d be sick of it. Until you see Claudia Winkleman again. And the castle, And the procession of black Land Rovers. And Claudia talking to an owl. And then you\u2019re sucked in all over again, just like the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When was the first time? Nobody can remember. You have to look it up to discover that The Traitors UK started three short years ago, on November 29, 2022, to be precise. But now it seems eternal, as if we have been watching it forever. As if it has always been there \u2013 now that\u2019s spooky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It feels like we\u2019ve been watching Claudia Winkleman on this show for more than three years, and while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36044,1578,93,61,60,279],"class_list":["post-222556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ann-marie-hourihane","tag-bbc","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}