The Traitors and Celebrity Traitors Staying at BBC in Three-Year Deal

Mar 12, 2026 4:15am PT ‘The Traitors’ and ‘Celebrity Traitors’ Staying at BBC Until at Least 2030 Following Three-Year Deal By Alex Ritman Plus Icon Alex Ritman @alexritman Latest Billie Eilish in Talks to Make Movie Acting Debut in ‘The Bell Jar’ From ‘Women Talking’ Director Sarah Polley 17 hours ago Fifth Season Fully Acquires ‘A Thousand Blows’ Producer the Story Collective, Strengthening U.K. Presence 20 hours ago Misty Copeland Says Timothée Chalamet ‘Wouldn’t Be an Actor’ if Not for Ballet and Opera and It’s ‘Very Interesting That He Invited Me’ to Promote ‘Marty Supreme’ 1 day ago See All CREDIT LINE:BBC/Studio Lambert/E The traitors and the faithfuls aren’t going anywhere in the U.K. for the foreseeable. The BBC has secured the rights to the smash hit psychological reality series “The Traitors” and its even bigger smash hit spin-off “The Celebrity Traitors,” both made by Studio Lambert Scotland, in a new three-year deal keeping them on BBC One and iPlayer until at least 2030. “The Celebrity Traitors” debuted on BBC One and iPlayer in October 2025 and has been a runaway success with an average audience of 14.9m across the run with a peak of 15.4m for the finale, making it the top entertainment episode across the whole market since 2016 and the number one series across all genres and platforms in 2025. Related Stories Film Festival Chiefs, Including Thierry Frémaux, Rally to the Defense of Berlinale Boss Tricia Tuttle as Her Future Hangs in the Balance Bi Gan's Cannes Winner 'Resurrection' to Stream on Criterion Channel, With Home-Video Release to Follow (EXCLUSIVE) Meanwhile, the fourth series of “The Traitors,” which began in 2026, achieved a 12.5m 28-day average, up 22% on Series Three (10.3m). The majority of viewing has been driven by BBC iPlayer, making up 6.6m of the audience (53%), and increasing 28% on the third series. This is the second biggest series across the market since the start of 2025, only behind “The Celebrity Traitors.” Popular on Variety According to the BBC, “The Traitors” has also proved extremely popular with younger audiences, with 2.6m 16-34’s making up 1 in 5 of the audience, representing an increase of 12% on Series 3 (2.3m) – making it the third biggest young series across the market since the start of last year, behind “Adolescence” (3.4m) and “The Celebrity Traitors” (3.1m). “We are proud to remain faithful to ‘The Traitors’ and ‘The Celebrity Traitors’ until 2030 and wanted to say a big thank you to the outstanding team at Studio Lambert Scotland for bringing it to screen,” said Kalpna Patel-Knight, head of entertainment commissioning at the BBC. “We can’t wait to share many more twists and turns with viewers all across the UK in the coming years.” Added Stephen Lambert, CEO of Studio Lambert: “’The Traitors’ has become a genuine television phenomenon across the world, but especially in the U.K., and we’re thrilled to continue the journey with the BBC. It’s hugely exciting that audiences will have many more years of strategy, suspense and shocking twists still to come.” “The Traitors” series five is coming to BBC One and iPlayer in 2027 and will be followed by series six in 2028, series seven in 2029, and series eight in 2030. “The Celebrity Traitors” series two lands BBC One and iPlayer later in 2026 and will be followed by series three in 2027, series four in 2028 and series five in 2029. Jump to Comments ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Squid Game’ Top Nielsen’s Most-Streamed Original Series of 2025 List Finn Wolfhard’s ‘SNL’ Monologue Crashed by ‘Stranger Things’ BFFs Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo; Trio Say They’re Grown and Ready for ‘Adult Films’ ‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ Trailer Reveals April Release Date, New Monsters and Steve Harrington Voiced by Jeremy Jordan ‘Stranger Things 5′ Becomes Netflix’s No. 6 Most Popular English-Language Series of All Time, ‘His & Hers’ Debuts at No. 1 CBS Wins Nielsen’s Fall Multiplatform Ratings Among Broadcast, Led by ‘Tracker’ — but Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Dominates Overall (EXCLUSIVE) ‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Traitors’ Win Big at GLAAD Media Awards JavaScript is required to load the comments. Loading comments...