A new civilian-led version of the reality competition series "The Traitors" is heading to NBC with Alan Cumming as the host. The announcement was made by Cumming at the inaugural Televerse 2025 conference during "The Traitors: Reality Competition Program Nominee FYC Panel" at the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Now, NBC is ready to deploy the idea of a Traitors for the rest of us in full, as the network just announced it’s ordered its own, completely non-celebrity version of the massively successful social deduction game show.

Michael Sloan, the writer-producer who co-created with Richard Lindheim the durable 1980s TV series The Equalizer, died August 13. He was 78. His death was announced by his family, which includes his wife of 35 years, the actor Melissa Sue Anderson, who starred in NBC’s Little House on the Prairie in the 1970s and ’80s. …