The Coven 1 (US)

**The Coven 1 (US)** is the first season of *The Coven (U.S.)*, and the first official season of *The Reality Channel* franchise.

Being known as the first ever installment of *The Coven*, this season was known as an amazing season to all fans of the show, with all the amazing personalities entering the house. Despite the season only lasting for 48 Days, there was still some amazing gameplay, and some dramatic moments in The Coven. In the end due to her ability to manipulate houseguests into keeping her, and her kind personality Nia Shafelet was able to win against Amandine Clément in a 4-2 vote. Shareeta Dewan won the Fan Favorite award, due to her being the best player in a lot of the fans eyes.

## Background

### Development

After planning this out for a very long time, the creator of this series Siobhan Kingsley, finally decided to let it have a chance to shine. Taking inspiration from famous CBS reality show, Big Brother, The Coven brought together 14 players to compete in the first ever edition of The Coven series.

Every week, the players compete in a Proprietor competition wherein the winner will be named as the Proprietor. The Proprietor gains safety for the week along with its perks such as having his/her own private suite and gifts/photos from home. However, the Proprietor also gains the responsibility to name two nominees that will face banishment. In the nomination ceremony, the Proprietor must announce his/her nominees to the rest of the houseguests and must state valid reasons for their nomination often through a speech. Throughout the week, the nominees are allowed secure their safety by encouraging and influencing other houseguests to save them against their fellow nominee.

However a special power, called the Tenant, gives the nominees chance to remove themselves off the block. All houseguests are allowed to compete in a Tenant competition and the winner will have the power to save a nominee, prompting the Proprietor to replace a nominee. If the Tenant Winner decides not to use the veto, the nominations will remain the same.

As the format allows housemates to strategize, the most of the housemates have formed alliances during their time in the house to further themselves in the game. An alliance is a group of housemates that are considered loyal to each other by working together throughout the game.

During the live banishment, the houseguests must individually go to the Diary Room to cast their banishment vote and the nominee with the highest amount of votes will be banished. In addition, the Proprietor is not allowed to cast a vote, unless there has been a tie.

The Jury is a council usually consisting of 7 to 11 houseguests that have been banished out of the game, and they have the responsibility to select the winner at the end of the season.

Usually when it comes to finale night, 2 or 3 people will face the jury, and they jurors will vote for one of them to become the winner. The final eviction sometimes take place days earlier, and others it takes place the same day as the finale.

### Casting

After around 6 different stages of casting and going through over 100,000 applications, the producers found a cast of 14 hopefuls that will compete on the first ever season of The Coven. This season, The Coven decided to aim for a more younger cast, however they still casted some older people to partake in the series.

## Twists

* **Shorter Season:** The season was originally going to go on for 62 Days, however due to Moses Khan departing, this season only lasted for 48 Days, 14 Days shorter from the original amount.

## Players

 **Winner**

 **Runner-Up**

 **Jury: *Amandine***

 **Jury: *Nia***

 **Jury: *Nia***

 **Jury: *Nia***

 **Jury: *Nia***

 **Jury: *Amandine***

 **Banished**

 **Banished**

 **Banished**

 **Departed**

 **Banished**

 **Banished**

 **Banished**

 **Departed**

## Trivia

* This is the first Season:
	+ Of *The Coven* overall.
	+ To feature a Triple Banishment.
		- Furthermore, to feature multiple Triple Banishments.
	+ To shorten the amount of game days after someone departed from the competition.