Good news. You can stop all of this immediately. Stop drafting that text to your WhatsApp group about a get-together for the “non-Dry Jan legends”. Stop saying you’re finally going to write a novel this year. Stop pretending you’re going to socialise in the evening; cease all attempts at self-improvement. The Traitors, one of the biggest runaway TV hits in recent memory, is back on BBC One, and all you have to do for the rest of the month is sit on your sofa and watch it.
Yes, we’re back – finally – in the Scottish castle, with 22 people trying to win £120k by working out who the “traitors” are among the “faithful”. Knowingly camp and precision-engineered for chaos, the series is basically a glorified party game in which host Claudia Winkleman flirts with oak furniture (the series opener starts with her talking to an owl).
