The Celebrity Traitors will launch on Wednesday 8 October at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
The multi-award-winning hit psychological game format will launch its first celebrity series with an extra-long first episode, as fans will be treated to 70 minutes of treachery. The series will air two nights a week, on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 9pm.
A brand new trail shows the star-studded celebrity cast seated around the iconic Roundtable for the first time.
Joining Claudia in the Scottish Highlands for The Celebrity Traitors are: Alan Carr, Cat Burns, Celia Imrie, Charlotte Church, Clare Balding, David Olusoga, Joe Marler, Joe Wilkinson, Jonathan Ross, Kate Garraway, Lucy Beaumont, Mark Bonnar, Nick Mohammed, Niko Omilana, Paloma Faith, Ruth Codd, Stephen Fry, Tameka Empson and Tom Daley.
The celebrities will play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning a cash prize up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice.
For fans who want more, the official visualised companion podcast is returning, Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked will be on BBC Two immediately after the main series and will also be available on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer.
Host Ed Gamble will be joined by the celebrities and players from previous series to analyse and react to developments in the castle.
Ahead of the hotly anticipated fourth series coming in 2026, it is also confirmed that The Traitors will return for a fifth series and applications are now open.
Do you have what it takes to play the ultimate game of trust and deception? To apply to take part in The Traitors visit bbc.co.uk/takepart
Since the series debuted on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2022, the show has established a 100% faithful audience. A breakout hit from series one, the show has seen phenomenal growth and series three averaged 10.3 million viewers across all 12 episodes with the launch episode reaching 10.9 million, making it the biggest unscripted series in the market (since ITV’s I’m a Celebrity in 2022) and the biggest unscripted series for 16-34s (2.3M), with half of its viewing coming from iPlayer. The Traitors continues to be the biggest Entertainment brand in the market for 16-34’s.
The Traitors has also earned a raft of awards including 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. Whilst Claudia Winkleman won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Entertainment Performance and the RTS award for Entertainment Performance and the Edinburgh TV Festival Variety Outstanding Achievement Award.
The Celebrity Traitors (9 x 60) is produced by Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC One and BBC iPlayer, and 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, Katy Fox and Lewis Thurlow and Production Executives are Lynette Woods-Reynolds and Gemma Scholes. The Commissioning Editors for the BBC are Neil McCallum and Syeda Irtizaali.
Created in the Netherlands by IDTV, an All3Media company, The Traitors (Dutch title: De Verraders) was created and developed by IDTV and POSVIDEO, in cooperation with RTL Creative Unit.
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 All3Media.
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