Bored of waiting? How to get your next fix of The Traitors
If you find it agonising to wait for the next instalment of The Traitors – the smart aleck who thought the five-day wait is acceptable seriously needs a rethink – then BBC iPlayer has the answer to your prayers. To manage your expectations, it doesn’t miraculously have the next few instalments of Claudia Winkleman and co (although we wish it if it did), but it does have the next best thing.
The addictive reality show, based on the Dutch series De Verraders, is an incredibly popular franchise with it currently airing in over twenty countries around the world. We’re obviously biased and think that the UK series is the best and that Claudia is the queen of the castle, but we concede there are some other versions which are also very entertaining. With BBC iPlayer housing three of the international offerings to help us kill the time between episodes of The Traitors UK, here's what you need to know about The Traitors US, Australia, and NZ.
The Traitors US
Hosted by tartan clad Scottish actor Alan Cumming, S1 of The Traitors US arrived in 2022 and saw civilians competing alongside former reality stars from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Below Deck, The Batchelor, Survivor and US Big Brother plus, inexplicably, the Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte. The US Traitors are seriously cutthroat, there are slanging matches galore, and the finale is breathtakingly brilliant. S1 and 2 are available now but you’ll have to wait for S3, which is currently airing in the US.
The Traitors Australia
Down Under, the Aussies aren’t messing about adding celebrities into the mix but in S1 they have chosen a particularly eclectic bunch of everyday folk. There’s a criminal defence lawyer, an electrician, a clairvoyant and a negotiator specialising in kidnap/extortion cases who lies and says they have a pastoral care role at a university. S1 consisted of 12 episodes while S2 just had 9. All are available for your viewing pleasure.
The Traitors NZ
There are two series of the New Zealand celebrity-civilian version, but only one is available on BBC iPlayer. Host Paul Henry adopts a villainous persona and presides over the Faithfuls and Traitors who, in series 1 stay in an upmarket B&B, and in S2 are housed in the gothic Castle Claremont. As for the challenges, they’re totally nuts, with contestants being asked to get The Traitors logo tattooed on a part of their body, to eat an animal’s heart, tongue and eyeball, and to get a monk’s haircut. Yes, really!
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