Another week, another show striving desperately to become the new Traitors . So it is that The Inheritance brings a group of disparate people together in a very big house, gives them tasks that win them money and invites them to pretend to cooperate while secretly behaving treacherously. In fact, about the only surprising thing about it is that it’s pretty good.

It’s also, I think, pretty knowing: aware of its possible absurdity, often quite camp, yet still going about its business with a face set resolutely to po.

The premise is that the very big house’s owner has died, leaving a rather implausible will that requires 13 strangers to compete for her money by collecting stuff and betraying each other. In something of a coup, the owner is played by Liz Hurley who issues her posthumous

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