{"id":154082,"date":"2025-09-22T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154082\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T23:42:09","slug":"bbc-show-promises-quite-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/154082\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Show Promises &#8220;Quite A Twist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> has dropped the first full trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-celebrity-traitors\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-celebrity-traitors\" data-tag=\"the-celebrity-traitors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Celebrity Traitors<\/a>, in which a group of stars are invited to \u201cgo forth and murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe hotly-awaited series premieres on the BBC on October 8, with a cast including Bridget Jones\u00a0actor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/celia-imrie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_celia-imrie\" data-tag=\"celia-imrie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celia Imrie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/stephen-fry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-fry\" data-tag=\"stephen-fry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Fry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe BBC\u2019s trailer captures the celebrities entering Ardross Castle in the Scottish Highlands, where host Claudia Winkleman explains that there \u201cis no special treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThis is life or death, isn\u2019t it?\u201d asks comedian Lucy Beaumont. In another clip, historian David Olusoga exclaims: \u201cThat\u2019s quite a twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther cast includes comedian Alan Carr; singer-songwriter Cat Burns; singer Charlotte Church, broadcaster and author Clare Balding; former rugby player Joe Marler;\u00a0Afterlife Joe Wilkinson; presenter Jonathan Ross; broadcaster Kate Garraway;\u00a0Dept Q\u00a0actor Mark Bonnar; Ted Lasso\u00a0star Nick Mohammed; content creator Niko Omilana, singer-songwriter Paloma Faith;\u00a0The Fall of the House of Usher\u00a0actor Ruth Codd;\u00a03 Non-Blondes\u00a0star Tameka Empson; and Olympic diver Tom Daley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe stars play a game in which a group of \u2018faithful\u2019 players must detect and eliminate \u2018traitors,\u2019 who each evening banish others from the competition. The winner of the show will bag \u00a3100,000 ($135,000) for their charity of choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/studio-lambert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_studio-lambert\" data-tag=\"studio-lambert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Lambert<\/a> is producing the show, which rolls out on the BBC over nine episodes. Executive producers are Mike Cotton, Sarah Fay, Katy Fox, and Lewis Thurlow. Production executives are Lynette Woods-Reynolds and Gemma Scholes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn the UK,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-traitors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Traitors<\/a>\u00a0has currently run to three civilian seasons. The format was first produced for RTL4 in the Netherlands by IDTV, an All3Media company, as\u00a0De Verraders. IDTV and Posvideo developed it, in cooperation with RTL Creative Unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has dropped the first full trailer for The Celebrity Traitors, in which a group of stars&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[243,43355,96,59,33816,70615,70616,7070,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-154082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-celia-imrie","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-stephen-fry","13":"tag-studio-lambert","14":"tag-the-celebrity-traitors","15":"tag-the-traitors","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}