They’ve upped the ante and made the format even twistier. Episode one, with its rapid, punchy reveals, leaves us and the players with plenty of threads to pull on – and exudes the producers’ confidence in the coming payoff.

Apart from the shocking secret Traitor twist, plays out as usual. Which is to say that it’s bloody brilliant television.

It’s already gloriously twisted enough to have me hooked. There goes my next few weeks.

What we do know is that it was amusing to see the three chosen traitors’ faces as they were castrated before our eyes, forced to do what they are told and operating on three cylinders, not four. Yes, all right, I admit it — it’s very clever.

Rhis show is such an enjoyable ride. It’s so confidently and skilfully made that it has become watercooler TV in an age when watercoolers are defunct (everyone has their own water bottle on their desk now, of course).