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The Inner Circle (game show)

British reality television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ136528614 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Inner Circle is a BBC game show which premiered on 6 October 2025. The Celebrity Inner Circle premiered on 4 October 2025. It is hosted by Amanda Holden.

Development

The series was announced in January 2025. The show is reportedly inspired by shows such as The Traitors, Golden Balls and The Weakest Link.

It is filmed and produced in Glasgow. BBC Studios holds format and distribution rights.

Episodes

There are 25 episodes and 6 special celebrity episodes. The celebrity editions include a celebrity paired with a contestant. In April 2026, it was announced that the daytime version will not be returning but the celebrity edition will continue.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Inner Circle (game show)” is british reality television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Inner, Circle and game, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Inner, Circle and game is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Inner Circle (game show)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.