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The Voice surviving on the basis of the blind auditions I think points to the "will somebody turn for them?" aspect being at least fruitful to viewers whereas wanting somebody to win the show is seen as pointless given its history of not making a star and so people don't bother watching to the end.

Try as they might, deceit type shows aren't Saturday night telly.

I’ve said for years they’d have been better off putting a cash prize on The Voice. The winners have never gone on to mainstream success whereas a six figure cash prize is something tangible to the audience that makes the competition worth winning. If they’ve not done it by now I doubt they ever will though.

When I say deceit shows I’m imagining a studio gameshow involving deceit, not something exactly like The Traitors. I guess Poker Face and Golden Balls are examples of it. Both only achieved minor success (although Golden Balls did make quite a lot of series in a short space of time) but perhaps with deceit coming into fashion there’s scope for such a show to do a bit better. 

Actually thinking about it I would not be surprised if reboots of Poker Face and Golden Balls are being shopped around the broadcasters already.