EYE TV
The Celebrity Traitors (BBC One) The Celebrity Inner Circle (BBC One)
DURING the first traitor-nominating roundtable in the second episode of The Celebrity Traitors, contestant Charlotte Church observed: “I think this is a case of double and triple bluff here.”
Which is also what the BBC is doing to viewers of this famous face spin-off from the corporation’s biggest peak-time franchise since Strictly Come Dancing. The Claudia Winkleman brainy elimination game show, in which contestants who have been secretly identified as “traitors” mock-murder “faithfuls” in a Hogwarty Scottish castle, depended on viewers not knowing anything about the contestants and therefore being unsure whether we are seeing their personality or tactics.
This makes the concept of a celebrity version instinctively feel almost as ridiculous as a celebrity version of The X Factor or an amateur spin-off from Match of the Day.