Trailer For ‘The Traitors India’
“This game is going to be played like chess. I want to be on the king’s side,” says rapper Raaftar, a contestant in the reveal trailer for India’s version of The Traitors. Ahead of its launch on Prime Video on June 12, The Traitors India has unveiled its look, with 20 players attempting to identify the betrayers among them at the stunning Suryagarh Palace in Rajasthan. Taking its cues from the UK and U.S. versions, which are filmed at Scotland’s Ardross Castle, the contestants will experience the red cloaks, oversized tasks and star-centered roundtable. Host is Karan Johar, with famous Indian stars Purav Jha, Karan Kundrra, Harsh Gujral, Ashish G Vidyarthi, Apoorva aka Rebel Kid, Uorfi Javed, Jasmine Bhasin, Lakshmi Manchu, Raftaar, Elnaaz Norouzi, Nikita Luther, Anshula Kapoor, Raj Kundra, Janvi Gaur, Maheep Kapoor, Jannat Zubair, Mukesh Chhabra, Sudhanshu Pandey, Sahil Salathia and Sufi Motiwala competing. “With The Traitors, we’re diving headfirst into a format unlike anything India has seen before, and the trailer is just a glimpse into the edgy, gripping, and wildly unpredictable show that redefines what reality content can be,” said Nikhil Madhok, Head of Originals, Prime Video, India. BBC Studios India Productions is producing following Prime Video’s format licensing deal with All3Media, whose Dutch subsidiary IDTV created the format alongside the in-house team at RTL Nederlands.
Sunghoo Park Fires Off Disney+ Anime ‘Bullet/Bullet‘
Recent Crunchyroll Anime Awards winner Sunghoo Park is finally ready to fire off his latest series. Disney+ will launch anime series Bullet/Bullet on July 16, with the project having spent more than a decade in development. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where people repurpose junk from the old world to survive, it follows junk dealer Gear, who secrets works by night with Qu-0213, a robot with multiple personalities, and Shirokuma, a polar bear with a gambling problem, to steal whatever their clients require. Things take a turn when they save a girl from assassins, setting them on a path of direct conflict with the top echelons of their broken society. Voice cast includes Marina Inoue (Attack on Titan, Smile PreCure!) as Gear, Kazuhiro Yamaji (PSYCHO-PASS, One-Punch Man) as Shirokuma, Rie Kugimiya (Gintama, Fullmetal Alchemist) and Kana Hanazawa (Quintessential Quintuplets, PSYCHO-PASS). Park, known for the likes of Jujutsu Kaisen and The God of High School is the director, with Aki Kindaichi (Uma Musume: Cinderella Grey) the writer. Character design is by Chief Animation Director Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Future GPX Cyber Formula, Hunter x Hunter) and concept and mechanical designs come from Hidetaka Tenjin (Movile Suit Gundam, Macross). The first eight episode drop in July, followed by another eight on August 13. In related news, Disney+ has announced that whodunnit drama series Nine Puzzles has become the most-viewed Korean title on the streamer globally and in Asia Pacific in 2025. Released nine days ago, it follows Yoon Ena, a high school student who discovers the body of her murdered uncle next to a single puzzle piece. A decade later, Ena, now a criminal profiler, once again finds herself caught in the middle of a series of murders, with each victim linked to a puzzle piece like the one from the night of her uncle’s murder. Kim Dami and Son Sukku star.
Sky Releases ‘Flight 149: Hostage Of War‘ Trailer
Sky’s next major doc from the UK, Flight 149: Hostage of War, now has a trailer. The doc follows one of cover-up around an incident at the start of the Gulf War in 1990, when a British Airways civilian flight touched down in Kuwait just after Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces had invaded the country. Passengers and crew were trapped and became pawns in a rapidly escalating international crisis. Britain’s government denied any prior knowledge of the invasion for three decades, but information now challenges the official narrative and the Jenny Ash-directed film features first-hand testimony from surviving hostages seeking the truth, investigative journalist Stephen Davis and political insiders. The doc drops in the UK on June 11. It screened at SXSW in March.
