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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Michael Savage Media editor

Celebrity Traitors debut draws almost 9m viewers and more than half of TV audience

The celebrities enter in a line, with Richard E Grant at the front
Young people are moving away from live TV but the show was watched by 83.5% of viewers aged 16 to 34. Photograph: Euan Cherry/BBC/Studio Lambert

Almost 3 million more viewers tuned in to the new series of Celebrity Traitors than for its previous debut episode, confirming its status as one of the few television shows capable of attracting the nation on to the sofa.

More than half of the audience watching TV at that time chose to witness the new cast of celebrities enter the show’s famous castle and observe the presenter, Claudia Winkleman, select the first batch of traitors.

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