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Megan Nisbet

BBC The Traitors: Start time, premise, location and contestants as Claudia Winkleman hosts new show

Claudia Winkleman Matt Hancock

The Traitors is a brand new psychological competition from the BBC. Hosted by Strictly Come Dancing's Claudia Winkleman, the new show will see 22 strangers play an ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust.

Based in the Scottish Highlands, the show will leave everyone taking part second-guessing those around them. The tense survival series will pit contestants against one another with the Faithfuls trying to detect who the traitors are. Those still in the competition at the end could win up to £120,000.

A synopsis reads: "In this nail-biting psychological competition, Claudia Winkleman greets 22 strangers as they arrive at a beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands to play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £120,000.

"But hidden amongst them are The Traitors whose job is to secretly murder a player every night, without getting caught. It's up to the others, the Faithfuls, to try to detect who the traitors are, and banish them from the game, before they become their next victim.

"For the lucky ones who survive to the end, they have the chance of winning that life-changing cash. But if a Traitor remains undetected, they’ll take all the money."

Among the contestants is Amanda, an estate agent from Swansea, you can read more about her here. Everything you need to know about The Traitors can be found below.

Claudia Winkleman will host BBC's new reality show The Traitors (PA)

When does The Traitors start?

The new series kicks off on Tuesday, November 29 at 9.30pm on BBC One. The second episode will air on Wednesday, November 30 at 9.15pm. There are twelve episodes in the first season.

How does The Traitors work?

The premise is best explained by presenter Claudia Winkleman, who said: "The Traitors is in essence a psychological reality show where players must decide who they can trust.

"22 people arrive at a beautiful castle. They're from all walks of life. They're all ages. They bond. They make friends. And they spend their days working together as a team to complete spectacular physical and mental missions to add money to a prize pot, that is worth up to £120,000.

"But not all is as it seems, because hidden amongst the group are some Traitors - players I secretly selected at the start of the game which the viewers will see for themselves. Everyone else is known as ‘The Faithful’ and none of The Faithful know who The Traitors are.

"The Traitors role is to murder one of their fellow players every night and remain undetected by the rest of the group. The Faithfuls role is to try and work out who is betraying them and eliminate them from the game, because every day all the players also meet at a 'Round Table' and vote to 'banish' the player they most suspect of being a traitor.

"At the end of the game, only the players that who have survived all these 'Murders' and 'Banishments' will win the prize pot. If they are all Faithful they will share it, but and this is a big but, if there are still Traitors secretly lurking amongst them, then they will win it all! It’s gripping!"

Where was The Traitors filmed?

The new show was filmed at a castle in the Scottish Highlands. Speaking about the location, Cladia said she had "never been anywhere more beautiful".

She said: "It felt sometimes like we were in a painting if that's not too cheesy. And on the first day the weather systems were bonkers. I mean, at one point I went on my weather app and it literally just said no idea mate good luck, take a bikini and a cagoule. On day two, we saw a double rainbow and everyone was like oh my gosh, and the crew were crying, there were baby deer, there was beautiful heather, there were ancient trees, and an ancient loch.

"We were all taking pictures. I FaceTimed my kids to say 'you've never seen anything like it's magical'. And then by day four, there had been another three double rainbows. I mean, by the end of the three weeks where we had seen 50 it was like don’t care. But it's just the most beautiful landscape."