Only an evening will separate the semi-final from the “traitors” final season 4 on M6. This Thursday, May 8, the channel will broadcast the semi-final of its game inspired by the rules of “werewolf”. The traitors are still two, Sophie Tapie and Adil Rami, and will try to do as well as their counterparts from the previous seasons, all won by the “bad guys” of the game led by Éric Antoine (Clémence Castel and David Douillet in season 1, Juju Fitcats in season 2 and Laurent Ruquier and Hugo Manos in season 3).
A precedent with “Beijing Express”
There is no longer a lot of time in the loyalty to unmask them since after the semi-final, the final will take place … two days later. M6 has indeed decided to program the last episode of his role play this Saturday, May 10. A strategy aimed at avoiding a dreaded face-to-face with the launch of the fifth and last long-awaited season of “HPI”, the phenomenon series with Audrey Fleurot, scheduled for Thursday, May 15 on TF1. A first salvo of episodes is scheduled until June 13, while the second part will be broadcast between September 12 and October 3.
This is not the first time that channel leaders have chosen to put an end to one of their flagship programs on weekends. Fans of “Beijing Express” had to block their evening on Saturday April 5 to attend the grand finale of season 20 opposing Cécile and Marion to Étienne and Judith in the streets of Johannesburg. A showdown, the tightest in the history of the adventure game, won by student friends, followed by 1.17 million viewers between 9:15 p.m. and 10:17 p.m., according to Médiamétrie, then by just 1.03 million faithful for the outcome. The objective of this exceptional deprogramming? Leave the field open to the last evening of “traitors”, whose audiences are struggling to take off in linear. The last evening, during which Liane Fany, however called traitor a few hours earlier, was betrayed by her family and eliminated, had run 1.48 million fans in suspense (8.5% of the public aged 4 and over and 25.2% of FRDA-50), then 1.32 million (9.5% of the public present in front of his television and 25.9% of FRDA-50).
As an indication, season 3 of the program had gathered between Thursday, August 15 and Friday, September 27, 2024, 1.86 million viewers on average and in audience monitors for the first part, according to Médiamétrie. This represents 10.6% of the entire public aged four and over and 27.4% of the FRDA-50. The P2 had mobilized, on average and in an audience watch (episode “The Reunion” not included), 1.70 million viewers (12.5% of the public). This is the least followed season in the history of the brand launched on M6 in 2022.
