The Traitors is set to return on Sunday, August 13 on 10 and 10 Play and with it comes the ultimate game of trickery and deception.
As the stakes in the series get higher and higher, a dangerous game will be played inside the grand old hotel full of deception, suspicion and betrayal.
Host Rodger Corser is set to put 20 players, known as Faithfuls, through challenging missions to win silver bars for their prize pot. The Faithful must seek out the Traitors among them before they are eliminated by the saboteurs themselves.
This week, Mediaweek spoke to host Rodger Corser about what viewers can expect from the second season and how last year, the contestants went in mostly blind to the experience but this season, they knew exactly what to expect.
For Corser, the cast having this valuable information about the game meant that after the first murder, it was “game on”.
“The first episode, it’s great, but a few things need to happen obviously. Once the shock of losing the first person and being banished — which they usually get wrong — and the first murder, then it’s really kind of game on,” Corser said.
Last year, contestants were only given clues as to what the show was about during the application process and apart from maybe seeing a “non-English speaking” version, they were very much in the dark.
“Everyone was on an even playing field of naivety I suppose,” he said. “But this year, they’re not. Annabel [contestant], she’s quite blatantly going, ‘No one knows more about the show than I do. I’ve seen every English speaking [series], I’ve listened to every podcast.’”
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The Traitors is produced for Network 10 by Endemol Shine Australia.
The Traitors premieres on Sunday, August 13 at 7.30 pm on 10 and 10Play.