‘The Traitors’ Host Alan Cumming On Why He Loves The Show & EP On Why Phaedra Parks Was So Successful – Contenders TV: The Nominees
deadline.comPeacock‘s The Traitors is up for four Emmy Awards for its second season, and host Alan Cumming opened up about what he loves about the reality competition. “I really just love this show.
I love being at the castle. I love everybody there. It’s such a fun thing to do,” Cumming said on the virtual panel for Deadline’s Contenders TV: The Nominees. “What was great the second time around is we’re back all in the swing of it a bit more.
And everyone was a bit more confident because we’d done one already, and the show had been a success. And now we really kind of hit our stride.” Cumming — who is nominated as Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, his fifth career Emmy nom — said “it felt really good to come back,” adding: “It’s great when you do something new, but you always worry you’re not going to get a chance to make it better and to improve upon it.
And that was what was so great about doing this second season. It really felt we had a chance to sort of tinker with things.
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