Nick Mohammed hopes BBC's The Celebrity Traitors success will translate into sitcom for corporation
Nick Mohammed hopes his successful appearance on BBC's The Celebrity Traitors will translate into the corporation giving the comedian his own sitcom.
Nick Mohammed hopes to land a BBC sitcom off the back of his successful appearance on The Celebrity Traitors.
The 45-year-old comedian and historian David Olusoga, 55, were pipped to the post in winning the corporation's game show as Faithfuls, but because a Traitor - 49-year-old comic Alan Carr - remained amongst them, it meant Alan snatched the £87, 500 prize, which he donated to Neuroblastoma UK.
The Celebrity Traitors has averaged 14.8 million viewers per episode - making it the biggest title of 2025 across the UK, and because Nick was a part of TV history, he hopes the BBC will remain Faithful to him with a new project.
He told the new release of The Big Issue magazine: "To be cynical about it, because it ended up being a popular show, I'd love for that to translate into me getting a BBC sitcom.
"I've been actively trying to get something like that off the ground for ages."
Nick considered allowing his three children - Finn, Arthur and Annie, whom he has with his wife Becca - a day off school when the final aired on November 6 because of the frenzy surrounding the programme.
He recalled: "Doing the school drop-off when Traitors was going out was a mad, mad thing. The day of the final, I remember we said, 'Guys, you know what, you don't have to go to school if you don't want to tomorrow!"
But the day after the final, Nick changed his mind.
The Ted Lasso star continued: "Then it got to Friday morning, and we were like, 'Actually, that's not a valid excuse to miss a day off school.'"
Nick loved how The Celebrity Traitors brought the country together.
He said: "It was really refreshing, wasn't it? Apart from sport, people don't gather around the telly the second that something is airing. Certainly not as much as they used to because of catch-up and streaming, and so much more choice.
"Traitors is a multi-generational show. And that was the big thing I realised. People were getting together with friends and family to watch together.
"That really felt like the olden days, like we were watching The Paul Daniels Magic Show on a Saturday night in 1991!
"The other thing was that it stopped Gen Z going online because you couldn't avoid spoilers. So they had to come off their devices and avoid spoilers. So it meant that people had to just watch it on telly live. And that was a great thing."
