Emma Kelly: ‘Traitors’ brings reality TV back to the boil with professional pot-stirrers
Claudia Winkleman hosts hit show The Traitors. Photo: BBC
Even the most devoted reality TV lover (me) can admit it: the volume of reality TV is now out of control.
You’ve got your Housewives from every US state, Love Island almost every quarter, and even Netflix reality-TV rejects dating other Netflix reality-TV rejects (the so-bad-it’s-almost-good Perfect Match). With such volume to keep churning out, the twists get less shocking, the formulas get stale and the scandal just doesn’t hit in the same way.
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