How The Traitors' Music Plays With Your Emotions

Composer Sam Watts, who is 44, wrote about twenty pieces for the show, and they also appear in dozens of international spin-offs; the cats approve.

On air: Chip Darnell and Vera Bullock on Best of BBN
Published 5:00 AM ET, Sunday, October 18, 2026

At a glance

First reported by BBC: “How The Traitors' music plays with your emotions”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 5:00 AM ET on Best of BBN, by Chip Darnell and Vera Bullock.
Topics: Celebrity Traitors.
BBN covered this story before: Miranda Hart's tears and dance moves steal the Traitors show (October 17).

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Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOver to the BBC now, where the composer behind The Traitors says he wanted a title theme as over-the-top as the Thundercats song he loved as a kid.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThundercats? The show where friends lie to each other over breakfast?
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSam Watts also wrote about twenty other pieces, and they show up in dozens of international spin-offs.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat is a lot of cartoon cats in a lot of countries, and I think that's wonderful.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI think it's more wonderful than you do. Somebody gets banished and the music says, go get them, kitties.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHis first version started much slower, and producers asked for changes.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA slow Thundercats. That's just a cat, Chip. Asleep. On the round table.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorApparently the betrayal needed to start faster.