The positive response to the Dutch reality series De Verraders has brought different versions of The Traitors to many countries, but EP Toni Ireland says the biggest challenge for her was to ensure that the U.S. production stood out in the crowd
: Oh, it’s been fantastic. It’s been great. The first series are always tricky, even though this was a format that had been tested before, it was the first time we were making it. We made the U.S. one before the U.K. one. You know, we were trying a cast of celebrities and everyday people and all the missions were brand new so it was nothing that had been done in any of the other series. We put our heart and soul into it and we were so thrilled with the response.
DEADLINE: It is such an interesting thing to watch because there’s no easy position for any of the players, not even the traitors.: As a producer, it was so fascinating to watch the game play out. I thought, ‘Would I want to be a faithful or would I want to be a traitor?’ If you get past the deceit, it’s whether you want to be in control of everything and know everything or whether you are willing to let yourself just play the game as a faithful and try and work out who the traitors are.
DEADLINE: When you have a reality show like this that’s based on a previous series and happening in other countries, how do you make this one stand out?: That was really important to us. We watched the Dutch version and it was fantastic, but for us, we just wanted to elevate the production values. It was really important to us that this looked cinematic. So, we’ve got a fantastic series director on board, Ben Archard, because he shared the same passion as us.
I think the format of the game itself is brilliant, but one thing that we changed was the end game. In the Netherlands, the game ended with a sort of prisoner’s dilemma situation with sharing or not sharing at the end. We felt that we could develop something that spoke to the overall game a little bit more – Are there any traitors left? That was our sort of key thought. We thought it speaks to the overarching theme of the game.
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