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203K streams yesterday.

That would be including the 10K partial streams.

Wait someone said she got 393K streams???? Oh, it’s worldwide but still? Isn’t that good?

So frustrating watching her struggle to get another hit again. Ughhh. (please don’t jump on me with the ‘it’s not about the charts!!1’ stuff. I know. I’m grateful for her career and her incredible music but it’s normal to want to see your favourite artist get commercial success too and you’d be lying if you said Jade wasn’t bothered about it too, even if this specific release was never going to set the charts alight in December anyway)

Dreamcheater sounds like Open Up and 2am by The Saturdays.

Listening to Church now on Apple Music and dunno if it's Apple, my earphones or the mixing of the song but I swear she's drowned out by the music on the verses. I can barely hear her or make out what she's saying.

Could do a Sweet Melody.

This will be incredible as always but God, I'm praying for some commercial success with this. Surely as it's a lead single they'll pull the stops to get this on decent playlists? She's performing on Graham Norton isn't she?

The AUS started off as civilians only.

Thank God. Hopefully that puts an end to the attention seeking, OTT reactions from people hoping they can keep getting airtime by doing the trials every night. We should see more natural reactions now knowing this rule is implemented.

AUS S1 was probably one of the best games in the entire franchise. It's amazing how quickly it's went downhill.

I'm just glad it's on BBC and not ITV because I really worry that they would have had Ant and Dec, Amanda Holden, Holly Willoughby, Bradley Walsh etc lined up. I can guarantee Roman Kemp will be on at some point as he seems to get booked for every reality show going. There will almost certainly be an annoying Capital FM presenter on like Jordan North otherwise. I'd like some more left field names that don't usually do the reality TV circuit and hopefully some A-Listers (or B-Listers at least) to make sure it stays credible and entices other celebs of the same calibre to follow the show and show interest. There are some people I'd love to watch purely for aesthetic purposes - Riz Ahmed, swoon - and then there's a few people who I just know would be hilarious TV like Nadine Coyle, Mollie King (she's on Radio 1 so manifesting this) and other girl group legends. Just purely for fun and knowing it would never happen - Nadine Coyle Riz Ahmed Dannii Minogue Donald Glover Noel Fisher Connor McGregor Kesha Shawn Michaels Graham Norton Jacob Anderson/Raleigh Ritchie Esteban Ocon Lee Evans Lady C Allison Hammond Rupert Grint Chris Martin Millie Bobby Brown

Ugh. Why are they doing a celeb version? Does this mean they've scrapped the civilian version completely? (I low key worry they'll end up doing this with the franchise in other countries too) Edit - FOUR Love Island contestants???? UGH!

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 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.

I take back my earlier criticism of this series and the show format. It's actually (after a slow start imo, really not great for entertainment purposes getting rid of Paloma/Niko/Charlotte) developed into a really fun series and I love that they actually are taking it pretty seriously after all. My only minor gripe now is that while Cat is being a good Traitor I find the scenes in the Turrett slightly jarring and awkward as Alan and Jonathan have such brilliant chemistry together and are obviously used to camping it up for TV and stirring it up amongst celebs whereas Cat sticks out a bit and doesn't have that same connection. I think maybe Kate would have been better suited for the Traitor role just purely for the dynamics of having 3 TV veterans with pre-existing relationships working together. My favourite is Nick who I'm slightly falling in love with but I do feel he's going to be the next murder victim purely because of how intelligent he is.

Between all this nonsense, her supporting Chris Brown, how she met/stole her partner (who is also a homophobe) and her supporting Tulisa's arguments against Misha B at the same time Leigh was filming a BLACK LIVES MATTER documentary I really have given up on this woman. Jade and Perrie may not be perfect but they're a damn sight more likeable than Leigh, as talented as she is.

The format really needs a shake-up. People are probably scared to vote out Traitors because they know there'll be recruitments and they have to start from scratch again. Maybe it would work better if there were more Traitors at the start (5? 6?) which should guarantee a certain amount of episodes for the show without it being grossly unfair on the Faithfuls? It seems like even in the game the cast know that the game only ends at the fire pit/last Round Table. Although the rules state that the Faithful can end the game whenever they think there's no Traitors left it's quite obvious that there's ALWAYS going to be at least one for the sake of making a thrilling TV finale with the fire pit. There's so many little flaws in the game that really need sorted out.

37 on iTunes.

This must be close to Platinum right?

The pacing and editing was totally off for that episode and killed the momentum for me. WHY do a cliffhanger halfway through a Roundtable? It's the best part of the show and cutting it abruptly in the middle just to make the audience wait an entire week to see the rest is such a stupid thing to do. The suspense will be long dead by that point! Also I feel like Paloma was unfairly set up for elimination as there was no way any of the Traitors could get away with touching someone's face unless they already had a pre-existing close friendship. And last gripe - please God can we stop recycling all the challenges? I'm just waiting on them going back to the church to do that 'steal an item from a masked member of the audience' thing they do in every season.

I keep checking Kworb and it says 194 for me?

I was sure I read recently the AUS season was being revived? I think it got cancelled before the show became a proper hit in the UK and worldwide and they were re-considering bringing it back?

UK series 1 is phenomenal television. They really, really done a fantastic job in terms of casting and selecting the Traitors. The final episode with the firepit banishment and the ridiculously OTT dramatic throwing coloured bags into the fire from Claudia was just the cherry on top to a perfect series. Series 2 and Series 3 were still highly entertaining but the final of S3 was predictable and had quite an unlikeable group of participants (besides Alexander) so it lacked the same suspense and excitement of the previous years. I'd still say my absolute favourite was Australia series 1 purely for just how quickly intense it got with suspicions being thrown around, allies forming, dramatic moments and a better variety of challenges than the UK format (which was basically repeating the same ones over and over again) plus I thought the final episode was peak TV. We had four finalists all trying to desperately form allies whilst two of the Traitors were lying through their teeth and promising their teammate they wouldn't double cross them when it was so obvious they would. Unfortunately I think that there's only so much mileage these reality shows can have and inevitably they hit a peak and then start to jump the shark/change the format too much/replicate the same ideas etc and I think the Celebrity versions are a bit overkill to be honest, but we will always have the first three UK seasons, the first Australian season and even the two New Zealand seasons as legendary TV to re-watch I guess.