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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ellie Muir

BBC accused of poaching Traitors concept by Agatha Christie’s great-grandson

The concept behind the BBC deception gameshow The Traitors was taken from Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, the author’s great-grandson has claimed.

TV and film producer James Prichard, the chairman of Agatha Christie Limited – the company managing the literary and media rights to her work – believes that the “brilliant” reality show is inspired by Chirstie’s famous 1939 mystery novel And Then There Were None.

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