{"id":50024,"date":"2025-09-29T05:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:31:11","slug":"the-traitors-treasure-trove-how-the-water-cooler-show-made-north-of-e1m-for-rte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Traitors treasure trove: how the water-cooler show made \u2018north of \u20ac1m\u2019 for RT\u00c9"},"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\">\nNational broadcaster thrilled with ratings for its version of hit franchise, but influencers needn\u2019t apply for next series\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney presented RT\u00c9's 'The Traitors Ireland'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759123871_26_bc6285cb-63b5-4b40-b206-56772b6bdc43.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)\">Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney presented RT\u00c9&#8217;s &#8216;The Traitors Ireland&#8217;<\/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)\">Gr\u00e1inne McAleer had lofty expectations for the Irish version of The Traitors, but says she could not have imagined it would have performed as well as it did.<\/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)\">\u201cI\u2019m absolutely delighted,\u201d says RT\u00c9\u2019s head of documentaries and series of the show she commissioned. \u201cI think for everyone in RT\u00c9 it\u2019s lovely to see something doing so well and being so popular with audiences, especially younger people. I have two twentysomethings at home and they were glued to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National broadcaster thrilled with ratings for its version of hit franchise, but influencers needn\u2019t apply for next series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1578,93,61,60,280,5151,6085],"class_list":{"0":"post-50024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-meagher","13":"tag-netherlands","14":"tag-rte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024","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=50024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}