The Inheritance

The Inheritance is Channel 4’s devious new game conceived and crafted by Studio Lambert.

Thirteen strangers are summoned to a grand stately home. They are there to compete for part of the fortune left in the will of The Deceased, a fabulously glamourous benefactor played by Elizabeth Hurley.

But winning the money won’t be easy. The Deceased had a wicked sense of humour and believed some people will go to great lengths to get what they want, so she designed a mischievous game to ensure only the most cunning can claim her inheritance.

Overseeing the stipulations of The Deceased’s will is her Executor and trusted legal counsel, Robert Rinder.

The lucky 13 players must work together to complete The Deceased’s final requests, a series of devilishly difficult assignments that will test their diligence, decency and ruthlessness in a race to claim what they truly deserve.

The Deceased’s game has a delicious twist: only one player can collect the money released from each request. To claim it, they must convince the others that they alone deserve to take all the cash they earned.

The Inheritance is a camp, cut-throat game of wit, willpower, persuasion and betrayal, where it’s not about who deserves the money, but who can outplay, out-charm and out-scheme the rest to claim it. After all, as The Deceased says: “They say all is fair in love and war, but whoever said that didn’t have an inheritance to fight over.”

The Inheritance on Channel 4, watch or stream from Sunday 31st August at 9pm, continuing Monday 1st September at 9pm and Tuesday 2nd September at 9.30pm. 

The Inheritance is a 12-episode series co-produced by Studio Lambert (part of All3Media) and GroupM Motion Entertainment. It was commissioned for Channel 4 by Steve Handley, Head of Reality & Entertainment, Tom Beck, Head of Live Events and Commissioning Editor, Reality & Entertainment and Genna Gibson, Commissioning Editor, Reality & Entertainment.

Executive Producers for Studio Lambert are Tim Harcourt, Darrell Olsen, Kim Murphy and Joe Wildman, with Martin Oxley for GroupM Motion Entertainment. Production Executives for Studio Lambert are Shona Kemp and Ellie Rowe, with Karen Bonnici for GroupM Motion Entertainment.