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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.

Changing the prize to money on The Voice would encourage people of lesser singing ability to apply but the show would probably become more sob story orientated, which I think would make it a turn off even at the blind auditions.

Poker Face and Golden Balls were fairly popular but like The Traitors appointment TV rather than event TV, which I think there is a difference between. I'm not sure that people want to watch these types of shows on Saturday nights and the desire to create massive positive buzz around something where the conceit "somebody is lying" would fall flat. I can see why broadcasters want to move away from basic quiz shows because they don't rate that well but something as simple as what you suggested with changing a prize can make a difference.