NETFLIX looks set to rival ITV hit The Fortune Hotel as it launches a brand new game show with an eye-watering prize.
The streamer will air new reality-style competition show Million Dollar Secret.
Hosted by Peter Serafinowicz, the premise follows recent successes like The Traitors and The Fortune Hotel.
It will see 12 contestants enter a lakeside estate – with each person having a mysterious box in their room.
Per the official logline: “Eleven of them are empty and one contains $1,000,000, and it’s for that guest to keep — as long as they keep their identity hidden.
“Devilish games will reveal clues about the millionaire’s identity, and they must do whatever it takes to keep their Million Dollar Secret.”
In a trailer, host Peter can be heard saying: “Imagine being invited here, finding a million dollars in your room, knowing it’s yours to keep, but only if you can hide the fact you’ve won the money.
“Getting the million dollars is easy, but how far would you be willing to go to keep it?”
As revealed by Peter, one challenge sees the line-up “fly by helicopter to an entry place where you will find the right ice for my drink” — and learning the undisclosed location is a glacier.
Meanwhile, The Fortune Hotel became a huge hit upon debuting on ITV last year.
The strategic guessing game similarly brings a group of contestants – although in pairs – to a luxury location.
Each were assigned a briefcase, with one of them containing £250,000.
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In the end, mother and son duo Jo-Ann and Will went on to win the jackpot.
[authenticated-scripts src=”%3Cscript%20class%3D%22palin-poll%22%20src%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesun.co.uk%2Fpollingwidgets%2Fv3%2Fwidget.js%3Fquestion_id%3D107907%26game%3Dpolling%22%3E%3C%2Fscript%3E” type=”embedded” width=”100″ /]It was later confirmed that The Fortune Hotel will be returning for a second series.
Early in the first episode, some viewers branded the show a ‘disappointing’ copy of The Traitors before giving it a chance.
Flooding social media with comments, one said: “Thought I’d give #TheFortuneHotel a go and I’ve turned it off already.
“It’s like a cr*p Traitors knock off with the sort of contestants that you’d find on that awful trash that is Love Island.”
A second fumed: “Sorry but you’ve lost my respect you’re not original and just a copy cat of The Traitors which will ALWAYS be better. Yawn. Boring. Try better.”
“Well it’s just The Traitors with less clothes and weirder people right,” said a third.
While a fourth commented: “If the attempt at competing with The Traitors wasn’t so abysmal, I think the BBC would be sueing ITV.”
