‘Celebrity Traitors’ renewed for season 2 on BBC
“The Celebrity Traitors” has been renewed for a second season on BBC One and iPlayer.
The broadcaster confirmed on Monday that the show, which aired its season 1 finale last week to 11 million viewers, will return next year with a new crop of stars. The companion show “The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked” also returns on BBC Sounds, BBC Two and iPlayer. “The Celebrity Traitors” is produced by Scotland’s Studio Lambert and presented by Claudia Winkleman.
“The Celebrity Traitors” became a phenomenon from the start, with the first episode becoming the biggest episode on TV so far this year with 14.8 million views over 28 days. The show is also now the biggest unscripted title in the entire UK market since 2021.
The news comes amid a new Economic Impact Report, which shows that “The Traitors” franchise in the UK and US has generated a £21.8 million ($28.7 million) boost to the Scottish economy since 2022.
“Studio Lambert has done an outstanding job as ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ has truly captivated the nation and become a bona fide highlight of the year, with record numbers of people gathering to enjoy every twist and turn,” BBC head of entertainment Kalpna Patel-Knight said in a statement. “In 2026, the castle’s doors will reopen to welcome celebrity players into the game to see who can charm, who can intrigue and ultimately who can survive in series two, which promises to be just as unmissable as the first. Plus with the return of ‘Uncloaked’ and today’s news of the positive contribution ‘The Traitors’ brand has made to the Scottish economy, there’s plenty to celebrate.”
In VarietyIn his review of the first season of ‘Celebrity Traitors,’ Scott Bryan called the show the best reality TV of the year. “It is rare that the most popular show on television is one of the best. It is rarer that that television show becomes such a public spectacle that screenings of the final fill bars and clubs across the country. And it is rarer still that the tensions during those screenings, which you could cut with a knife, are caused by comedian Alan Carr,” he wrote. “Yet ‘The Celebrity Traitors UK’ did just that. The BBC’s first season of a celebrity version of the game – an elaborate, unpredictable whodunnit with an international franchise – not only met expectations. It exceeded them.”
