Honestly brilliant ending to a great show and to be fair, Alan did the majority of the dirty work so deserves the win. Plus, he's just been a highlight in many ways, I am so pleased for him!

1 hour ago, Viper* said:

Honestly brilliant ending to a great show and to be fair, Alan did the majority of the dirty work so deserves the win. Plus, he's just been a highlight in many ways, I am so pleased for him!

Absolutely agree. I like Cat but Alan did the two murders out in the open. He was just sensational. Great TV.

Consolidated Ratings for first 4 eps..

Episode 1 = 12.46m

Episode 2 = 11.87m

Episode 3 = 13.23m

Episode 4 = 12.85m

Apparently last nights overnights for the final were 11.1m, peaked at 12m.

The finals didn’t go the way I expected it to - but great event TV. Suspect series 4 of the civilian series will be big.

Wonder if this may go the way of Big Brother and the celebrity format proving more popular. Strange! As I think the civilian series is better, but personal preferences I suppose.

The ratings for this are absolutely phenomenal though in the age of streaming. They had some amazing celebrities that you would never normally expect to do reality TV, hopefully they up the budget slightly and we get some great casting for series 2!

That was such a jaw-dropping finale! My adrenaline was out of this world.

I sobbed watching Nick and David console Alan. What lovely, lovely people.

I really thought this would be a non event of a series due to the low stakes but it's been absolutely incredible television. Alan has been the highlight and the centre of many of the main events and stories and was a brilliant casting choice.

I hope the show continues to be a ratings mammoth and we get a few more years out of it before it inevitably starts to dip in quality and interest and overstays its welcome. It really feels like back in the day when X-Factor was at it's peak and everyone was watching it together live.

What a great final !

It really didn’t go the way I expected it to which made it great . I thought for sure Joe and Nick had it in the bag after last week.

Alan being both the worst and best traitor all in one and taking the win is quite incredible 😂

I enjoyed the Celebrity Version a lot more than I expected to .

3 hours ago, shadow2009 said:

I sobbed watching Nick and David console Alan. What lovely, lovely people.

I really thought this would be a non event of a series due to the low stakes but it's been absolutely incredible television. Alan has been the highlight and the centre of many of the main events and stories and was a brilliant casting choice.

I hope the show continues to be a ratings mammoth and we get a few more years out of it before it inevitably starts to dip in quality and interest and overstays its welcome. It really feels like back in the day when X-Factor was at it's peak and everyone was watching it together live.

All good things come to an end, I think what is important is the show continues to innovate whilst not changing too much. There was no Seer twist in the Celebrity version.

The ratings are huge and shows there is a lot of growth still, I know of a fair people who never watched the civilian version, but did the celebrity version. I guess the big challenge for the BBC is how they protect the show if a rival broadcaster or streamer came in for it. I absolutely love that it is 'event' TV though.

Well wasn't that spectacular!!! 😯

I've been deliberately ignoring this thread as I have been behind on the show and did not want to find out what was happening. But now it is done, just, WOW! That ending was superb like, I did not see it coming AT ALL! A masterclass from Alan at the last minute throwing the heat back onto Joe. I literally said to my husband, he has to go for Joe now, like go for him hard and tell the others that they had an agreement for him not to vote Cat out, and the way he delivered it, even I was a bit convinced.

I was sure he had blown it though when he went for the green bag after having voted for David already so imagine my delight when they threw that final green bag! 😍

Really think Alan deserved the win, I was fuming when Cat made him do the death on Celia after he had to do it to Paloma already. He really did play the game while Cat, as lovely as she was, basically hid in the shadows throughout most of it.

Overall an excellent cast, they were all so entertaining and I feel like everyone came out of it really well. The end with the final three when they rushed to comfort Alan who was clearly distressed just made me burst into tears, shows what lovely guys they both were. ❤️

I enjoyed the finale and the entire series, and can't wait to see what names they manage to get for a second series considering the huge success that this one has been, but I can't believe that anyone was willing to end the game with Alan still in. I love him, but the way he burst out laughing whilst trying to say "I am a faithful" at the end of the previous episode, it just boggles my mind that they didn't banish him.

There is a cynical part of me that thinks there was some slight....interference involved to ensure an Alan/Traitors win.

I suspect that producers knew millions of people would be watching for the first time and a Traitor win would be the most dramatic, 'TV moment' outcome. I don't think a Faithful win would have been very interesting, especially considering Alan Carr's popularity and how he was basically the star of the series.

1 hour ago, shadow2009 said:

There is a cynical part of me that thinks there was some slight....interference involved to ensure an Alan/Traitors win.

I suspect that producers knew millions of people would be watching for the first time and a Traitor win would be the most dramatic, 'TV moment' outcome. I don't think a Faithful win would have been very interesting, especially considering Alan Carr's popularity and how he was basically the star of the series.

Nooooooooooo, stop it!!!! 😭

1 hour ago, shadow2009 said:

There is a cynical part of me that thinks there was some slight....interference involved to ensure an Alan/Traitors win.

I suspect that producers knew millions of people would be watching for the first time and a Traitor win would be the most dramatic, 'TV moment' outcome. I don't think a Faithful win would have been very interesting, especially considering Alan Carr's popularity and how he was basically the star of the series.

I don't know, I tend to think the producers don't get involved that much in influencing who gets murdered. I don't think it makes a difference whether the Faithful or Traitors win at the end as it's all about the journey, I think at every finale there's always tension. At the end of the day, Nick was influenced by what Joe said when Cat got banished.

In the show itself, the celebrities also know what makes good TV. Going by other series, the murders in plain sight get loads of suspicion, but Alan Carr just played his personality. From a few snippets here and there, loads of stuff was cut too. That's the only way the producers influence imo, is whatever narrative they want to shift on the audience with how they edit the show. I guess it's always different to X Factor, Love Island etc. as there is no public voting and the storyline already set

Uncloaked is an essential watch for understanding why Alan survived so long - everyone just loved him and, aside from a couple of them, they admitted they didn't want to think he could be a traitor! It's a testament to Alan being sincere and true to himself as nothing he did was out of character, even forgetting the shield and laughing when saying he was a traitor don't feel out of the realm of typical Alan Carr behaviour. In fact, I bet Alan would still have laughed saying "I am a faithful" if he actually were a faithful! But yes, watch Uncloaked to hear people's rationale before suggesting producer interference IMO, I think it'd be near impossible to do that and still get the genuine, sincere reactions of the losing faithfuls at the endgame.

What a phenomenal series, I'm so thrilled for Alan, I'd been rooting for him from the start as he's worth his weight in gold when it comes to entertainment, but I never believed he'd actually win. He played a blinder in the final, his arguments at the roundtable were the most eloquent of anyone, and the way he flipped the blindside of Joe's vote for Cat into a victory for himself was masterful, probably without him really realising it...!! This show just keeps going from strength to strength, long may that continue.

I’m really pleased that Alan won, I usually want a Faithful win but he really was the star of the series.

I do feel slightly cynical of the result as well. It might partly be because they were only playing for charity, rather than themselves, but it felt like they ended the game too soon. Nick was convinced by the Cat and Alan theory until the last minute. Even Alan should have continued to eliminate David - he went from “me, Joe and Cat were going to vote David” to ending the game with David still in play.

These can both be explained by Nick and Alan suddenly being so suspicious of Joe that it ruled out their other theories. I think in a civilian series they would have wanted to eliminate all doubts and it would have gone to another vote where Nick and David voted for Alan.

Overall an enjoyable series, but due to being slightly shorter and the cast being so bad at Traitor hunting, series 1-3 and the USA series have been more interesting in gameplay for me.

Second series has been confirmed for 2026!