Overview

• The series launches Sunday 31 August at 9pm on Channel 4 and will run for 12 episodes.
• Thirteen strangers are summoned to a stately home to carry out the Deceased’s final requests, with only one player allowed to collect the money earned in each task.
• Elizabeth Hurley portrays the Deceased, an eccentric winemaker, while barrister Robert Rinder enforces her will as the on-screen Executor.
• Early challenges include making the Deceased’s signature rosé by diving for bottles in a lake and selecting a complementary red from barrels.
• Produced by The Traitors creator Studio Lambert and filmed on grand estates in Dorset and Hampshire, the series features a diverse cast that Rinder frames as an authentic social experiment focused on fairness and character.