BBC Renews Hit Series ‘The Traitors’ For Season 3 Ahead Of Season 2 Launch
Ahead of Season 2 (which is “coming soon”), the BBC has renewed hit series ‘The Traitors‘ for a 3rd Season the UK broadcaster has announced.
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, ‘The Traitors’ is a nail-biting psychological reality competition where 22 strangers play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £120,000.
“The massive unscripted hit The Traitors will be back for a third series. Expect to see more psychological gameplay, exciting challenges and of course, Claudia at the helm,” said Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment at the BBC. “It will be a thrilling ride for both avid fans and newcomers to the series for sure. The BBC will always remain faithful to The Traitors.”
It would be fair to say, the show has been a massive hit. Season one reached an audience of 21M and was the biggest brand-new entertainment launch for the BBC since 2021. ‘The Traitors’ was also the biggest new series for young audiences across all BBC titles in 2022, and the highest rating new entertainment series on the BBC since at least 2017 for young audiences.
‘The Traitors’ has also become an award-winner for the Beeb, scooping the BAFTA TV Award for Best Reality & Constructed Factual, the NTA for Reality Competition, the RTS award for Entertainment and the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Entertainment Programme. Host Claudia Winkleman also bagged the BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance, the RTS Award for Entertainment Performance and the Edinburgh TV Festival Variety Outstanding Achievement Award.
‘The Traitors’ is produced by Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC One and BBC iPlayer. The third series of ‘The Traitors’ has been commissioned by Kalpna Patel-Knight, Head of Entertainment Commissioning for the BBC. The executive producers for Studio Lambert Scotland are Mike Cotton, Sarah Fay, Lewis Thurlow and Rosie Franks, and the line producer is Gemma Scholes. The commissioning editors for the BBC are Neil McCallum and Syeda Irtizaali.
“We’re delighted a third series of The Traitors has been confirmed today ahead of the second series’ arrival on BBC One and BBC iPlayer,” adds Stephen Lambert, CEO of Studio Lambert. “The Traitors has been so warmly received by viewers, critics and award juries alike. Claudia and the team look forward to keeping audiences on the edge of their seats again with ever more thrilling missions and exceptional players competing in this gripping game of bluff and skill.”
Based on the Dutch series ‘De Verraders’, the show is created in the Netherlands by IDTV, an All3Media company, The Traitors format was further developed with the RTL Creative Unit and originally produced by IDTV for RTL4. All3Media International is global partner for ‘The Traitors’ and handles format and tape sales worldwide. Studio Lambert is part of the All3Media group.
If you think you have what it takes to play the game, and would like to take part in the third series you can apply via BBC Take Part.
‘The Traitors‘ Season 2 does not yet have a premiere date but is “coming soon” to BBC One and iPlayer. In the meantime, the first series of ‘The Traitors’, ‘The Traitors US’ and ‘The Traitors Australia’ are available to watch on BBC iPlayer. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
