THE TRAITORS FINALE DELIVERS ASTONISHING AUDIENCE FOR BBC ONE

The multi-award-winning hit psychological game format The Traitors, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, came to its dramatic conclusion last night (Friday 24th January).

The Series 3 final was watched by a record 7.4 million viewers from 8:30pm on BBC One, 42% share of the total TV audience, peaking at 7.6 million. Visualised podcast spin-off Uncloaked was also watched by a record 4.8 million from 9:40pm and a total 37% share of the total TV audience. [Source]

The Traitors, made by Studio Lambert Scotland, is an intense psychological game in which players must decide who they can trust. In each episode, the players work together to complete spectacular physical and mental missions.

If they are successful, they add money to a prize pot, which is worth up to £120,000. But to win the prize pot, players must survive to the end of the game – they must avoid being ‘murdered’ or ‘banished’.

At the start of the game, a small number of players are secretly selected by Claudia to be The Traitors. The rest of the players are known as ‘The Faithful’ and none of The Faithful know who The Traitors are.

Players are eliminated in one of two ways; each night, The Traitors meet in secret and decide to ‘murder’ one of The Faithful and next morning when the group meet for breakfast the ‘murdered’ player does not appear.

Then, later in the day, all the players meet at the ‘Round Table’ and decide to ‘banish’ a player they suspect of being a Traitor. Whomever they pick will then reveal if they are indeed a Traitor or a Faithful.

At the end of the game, the few remaining players will share the prize pot if they are all Faithful, but if there is still a Traitor among them, the Traitor takes all the prize money.

The Traitors is available to stream now on BBC iPlayer.