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The Traitors is one of the few things getting us through a miserable January. For three nights a week, it feels as if the whole country is living and breathing the cloaks-and-daggers drama.
For the other four painstaking days when the show isn’t on air, we’re sharing our opinions and theories with everyone from colleagues to strangers online. But it’s not just tactics and contestants viewers are talking about – my group chats are incessantly pinging with questions about what happens behind the scenes, where the cast go once they leave the castle, and whether Charlotte will ever reveal her real accent.
The order in which the contestants arrive at breakfast is a source of tension and speculation on the show. Series one faithful Maddy Smedley explains that contestants are kept in separate holding rooms when they come to the castle in the morning and are called to go into breakfast individually or as a group.
Similarly, in the evenings, contestants wait in a holding room until a runner comes to individually escort them out of the building and into a car. Traitor and series two champion Harry Clark says there are no clocks in the castle and contestants have no sense of time.
Unlike the hour-long episodes we see, Harry says the days aren’t filled with wall-to-wall traitor speculation. “I spent most the day talking to Paul about Liverpool and Chelsea or finding out if everyone believes in aliens and obviously that stuff doesn’t make the final edit because it’s not relevant to the game.”
The missions are overseen by a missions director and missions series editor. Speaking to BBC News and other press last month, Claudia explained there’s a team of people who make the decision.
After firing off your initial written and video applications, you have a number of audiences with producers. “They ask you to mainly tell them stories about yourself and your life,” Dr Amos says. “Eventually, if they like you, then you get a phone call a few weeks before [filming starts] to say you’re off to Scotland,” adds Harry.
The Traitors is filmed in Ardross Castle, a 19th Century building about 30 miles north of Inverness. It is set in about 100 acres of gardens and parkland and has been owned by the McTaggart family since 1983.
Fun fact: its previous owner was Charles William Dyson Perrins whose grandfather, William Perrins (in partnership with John Wheeley Lea) created the recipe for Worcestershire Sauce.
Mike Cotton says the crew on location is made up of more than 200 people. “It sounds absolutely huge but we film one episode a day,” he says. He explains that this team includes everyone from producers and camera operators to the art department who work their magic on interior designing the rooms.
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