The Traitors

For other uses, see The Traitors (disambiguation).

"Faithfuls" redirects here. For other uses, see Faithful (disambiguation).

The Traitors
Created by	Marc Pos Jasper Hoogendoorn
Original work	De Verraders
Years	2021—present
Films and television
Television series	The Traitors (see international versions)
Miscellaneous
Genre	Reality television
First aired	13 March 2021 (2021-03-13)
Distributor	All3Media [1]

The Traitors is a reality game show franchise created by the All3Media company IDTV which originally aired on RTL 4 in the Netherlands in 2021. ^[2]

Gameplay

The players are divided into two groups: the "Faithfuls" and the "Traitors," with only the latter group having knowledge of each other's group affiliation. The Faithfuls must work together to identify and eliminate the Traitors through banishment before the end of the game, while the Traitors' objective is to remain undetected and escape banishment.

On most nights, the Traitors come together and decide upon one Faithful contestant to "murder" – and that person will leave the game immediately. The remaining Faithful contestants will not know who has been eliminated until the following day when that person does not enter the room for breakfast. The group then take part in a mission to win money for the prize fund. In some versions, the missions offered an opportunity for players to visit the armoury – during which players will randomly and secretly be awarded the shield. In other versions, the shield is only available to obtain during the missions. Holding a shield awards a player immunity from being murdered, but not from the Banishment Vote. An attempted murder on the shield holder will result in no player being eliminated by Murder.

At the end of most days, the players will participate in a Round Table, where the players discuss who to vote out before individually voting for a player to be banished. Players cast their votes privately before revealing their votes in turn to everyone once all votes are locked-in and may give a brief rationale for their vote. The person who received the most votes for banishment is banished from the game and must reveal which group (Faithfuls or Traitors) they belonged to. During the game, if the amount of remaining Traitors drops to two, they will be given the option to recruit a Faithful to join them in lieu of committing a murder. The Faithful will have the option to decline, and declining may or may not result in them being murdered immediately. If the Faithful accepts, they become a Traitor from that point on. After the final round table, the remaining players vote whether to end the game or to continue the game. A unanimous vote to end the game is required; if there is at least one vote to continue, another banishment vote is immediately conducted, before repeating the vote to end the game with the remaining players. When a unanimous vote to end the game occurs, or when there are only two players left, the remaining players reveal whether they are a Faithful or a Traitor. If the remaining players are Faithfuls, they will share the prize fund; but if any Traitors make it to the end, they will win the full prize fund instead. ^[3]

The amount of players varies season to season and from franchise to franchise. The amount of Traitors that start the game also varies season to season. In some versions, the players are celebrities.

International versions

  Currently airing

  Upcoming seasons

  Unknown status

  Awaiting confirmation

  No longer in production

Country/Region	Local title	Network(s)	Winners	Host(s)
Australia	The Traitors	Network 10	Season 1, 2022: Alexandra "Alex" Duggan (Traitor) Season 2, 2023: No winner [lower-alpha 1]	Rodger Corser
Belgium (Flemish)	De Verraders  [ nl ]	VTM	Season 1, 2022: Bart Kaëll, Kim Van Oncen  [ nl ], Niels Albert and Ward Lemmelijn  [ nl ] (Faithfuls) Season 2, 2023: Bart Appeltans  [ nl ] and Guy T'Sjoen  [ nl ] (Traitors) Season 3, 2024: Upcoming season	Staf Coppens  [ nl ]
Belgium (French)	Les Traîtres  [ fr ]	RTL-TVI	Season 1, 2021–22: Philippe Scofield and Pholien Systermans (Faithfuls) Season 2, 2023: Vanessa Matagne (Traitor) Season 3, 2024: Toma Nikiforov (Traitor) [4]	Frédéric Etherlinck
Canada (English)	The Traitors Canada	CTV	Season 1, 2023: Mike D'Urzo (Traitor)	Karine Vanasse
Canada (French)	Les Traîtres	Noovo	Season 1, 2024: Current season [5]
Czech Republic	Zrádci	Prima [6]	Season 1, 2024: Upcoming season	TBA
Denmark	Forræder  [ da ]	TV2	Season 1, 2023: Johannes Nymark  [ da ] (Traitor) Season 2, 2024: Current season [7] Season 3, TBC: Announced [8]	Lise Rønne
Finland	Petolliset  [ fi ]	Nelonen [9]	Season 1, 2023: Heikki Sorsa and Sita Salminen  [ fi ] (Traitors)	Christoffer Strandberg  [ fi ] [10]
France	Les Traîtres  [ fr ]	M6	Season 1, 2022: Clémence Castel and David Douillet (Traitors) Season 2, 2023: Juju Fitcats  [ fr ] (Traitor) Season 3, 2024: Upcoming season [11] Special Internet Season, 2024: Upcoming season [12]	Éric Antoine
Germany	Die Verräter  [ de ]	RTL	Season 1, 2023: Anna-Carina Woitschack  [ de ] and Vincent Gross  [ de ] (Traitors) Season 2, 2024: Upcoming season [13]	Sonja Zietlow [14]
Greece	Οι Προδότες (Oi Prodótes)	ANT1	Season 1, 2023: Giorgos Talias [15] (Traitor) Season 2, TBC: Upcoming season [16]	Konstantinos Markoulakis [17]
Hungary	Az Árulók – Gyilkosság a kastélyban  [ hu ]	RTL	Season 1, 2023: Ágnes "Ági" Szabados, Orsi Tapasztó and Tamás "Moha" Mohai (Faithfuls) Season 2, TBC: Upcoming season [18]	Attila Árpa  [ hu ] [19]
Ireland	The Traitors	RTÉ One	Season 1, TBD: Upcoming season [20]	TBA
Israel	הבוגדים  [ he ] (Hbugdim)	Channel 12	Season 1, 2024: Upcoming season [21]	Assi Azar and Rotem Sela [22]
Netherlands	De Verraders	RTL 4	Season 1, 2021: Chatilla van Grinsven (Faithful) and Samantha Steenwijk  [ nl ] (Traitor) Season 2, 2022: Dionne Slagter  [ nl ], Steven Brunswijk  [ nl ] and Toine van Peperstraten (Faithfuls) Season 3, 2023: Billy Dans, Chahid Charrak  [ nl ] and Noor Omrani (Faithfuls) Season 4, 2024: Current season	Tijl Beckand
Netherlands (special)	De Verraders	Videoland	Videoland Edition, 2021: Britt Scholte  [ nl ] and Iliass Ojja  [ nl ] (Traitors) Halloween Season 1, 2022: Bastiaan Ragas, Bobbi Eden and Famke Louise (Faithfuls) Halloween Season 2, 2023: Bente Fokkens  [ nl ] (Traitor) Halloween Season 3, 2024: Upcoming season [23]	Art Rooijakkers (Videoland Edition) Frank Evenblij  [ nl ] (Halloween)
New Zealand	The Traitors NZ	Three [24]	Season 1, 2023: Anna Reeve and Sam Smith [25] (Faithfuls) Season 2, TBD: Upcoming season	Paul Henry [26]
Norway	Forræder  [ no ]	TV2	Season 1, 2022: Cathrine Fossum  [ no ] and Karina Hollekim (Traitors) Season 2, 2023: Aslak Maurstad (Traitor) Season 3, 2023: Jon Martin Henriksen  [ no ] and Marlene Stavrum  [ no ] (Faithfuls) Season 4, TBC: Upcoming season	Mads Hansen
Poland	The Traitors. Zdrajcy	TVN	Season 1, 2024: Current season [27]	Malwina Wędzikowska  [ pl ] [28]
Portugal	Os Traidores  [ pt ]	SIC	Season 1, 2023: Carolina de Brito Palma and Júlio Ferreira (Traitors)	Daniela Ruah
Russia [lower-alpha 2]	Наследники и самозванцы  [ ru ](Heirs and Pretenders)	TV-3	Season 1, 2022: Igor Oznobikhin (Faithful) and Svetlana Romashina (Traitor)	Lyasan Utyasheva
Spain	Traitors España  [ es ]	HBO Max	Season 1, 2023: Joana Pastrana and Leo Margets (Faithfuls)	Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Sweden	Förrädarna  [ sv ]	TV4	Season 1, 2023: Katia Mosally  [ sv ] (Traitor) Season 2, 2024: Upcoming season [30]	Dragomir Mrsic
United Kingdom	The Traitors	BBC One	Series 1, 2022: Aaron Evans, Hannah Byczkowski and Meryl Williams (Faithfuls) Series 2, 2024: Harry Clark (Traitor) Series 3, TBA: Upcoming season	Claudia Winkleman
United States	The Traitors	Peacock	Season 1, 2023: Cirie Fields (Traitor) Season 2, 2024: Chris "CT" Tamburello and Trishelle Cannatella (Faithfuls) Season 3, TBA: Upcoming Season [31]	Alan Cumming

See also

• Mafia (party game)

Notes

1. While there was three Traitors who made it to the final round, they subsequently lost the prize money after the "Traitor's Dilemma."
2. An unofficial version of the format is broadcast in Russia (the show is produced despite the fact that Russian broadcaster nor production company haven't purchased a licence – which is a repercussion of Russian invasion on Ukraine). ^[29]

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