Maritime horror, after Dutch sailing ship Batavia wrecked off western Australia, set TV show in motion
The hit TV reality show The Traitors was originally going to involve a recreation of a real-life murderous mutiny onboard a 17th-century Dutch ship, with programme contestants pushed into the sea when voted out.
Hoogendoorn said the TV programme originally was going to be called The Mutineers and would have closely tracked the historical incident. “It was an old Dutch story. In 1629 300 Dutch people went to Indonesia with big treasure on the ship. There were some people who became mutineers and they were shipwrecked on a very small island off the coast of Australia.”
The massive cost of staging the programme on a ship counted against it. But the idea of a mutiny and rival factions working against each other remained as the plan was revised. A later proposal suggested staging the show in the Moroccan desert, before the Dutch broadcaster RTL asked for it to be filmed in a castle.
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