BBC Orders Celebrity Version of The Traitors

A celebrity version of the psychological game format The Traitors is coming to BBC One, which has also renewed the show for a fourth season.

The two commissions from Studio Lambert, part of All3Media, come ahead of the third season of the reality competition, which has already been filmed in the Scottish Highlands. Claudia Winkleman will return as host.

In addition to news of a 12×1-hour fourth season and 9×1-hour celebrity version, podcast agency Listen will be producing 12 brand-new episodes of companion show The Traitors: Uncloaked, which will return alongside the third season of The Traitors. Once hosted again by comedian Ed Gamble, The Traitors: Uncloaked will be available via BBC Sounds and on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

Kalpna Patel-Knight, head of entertainment at the BBC, said: “The Traitors has well and truly established itself as an unmissable highlight of the year and the news of a fourth outing, alongside a brand new celebrity version coming to the BBC, will take the series to a whole new level. It will once again be fascinating for our audiences to see who’ll outwit, outplay, and outlast. Let the mind games begin!”

Mike Cotton, creative director of unscripted at Studio Lambert and executive producer for The Traitors, said: “We are thrilled to be inviting some celebrities into our castle to come and play the game. Seeing famous faces navigate the round table or don the infamous green cloaks will be unmissable TV, and what a double treat for the fans with season four also confirmed too. There’s a whole lot of exciting treachery and deception yet to come from the Highlands…. Claudia’s going to have to pack some extra knitwear.”