Alan Cumming is officially welcoming new guests to his castle: Peacock‘s The Traitors has been renewed for Season 2.
In addition, a Season 1 reunion special hosted by Bravo’s Andy Cohen will hit the streamer Tuesday, Feb. 28.
“The Traitors is an ambitious, highly addictive and spontaneous format that keeps contestants and viewers on their toes,” NBCUniversal’s Executive Vice President of Entertainment Unscripted Content Corie Henson said in a statement. “Alan Cumming is a well-dressed genius, the producers at Studio Lambert are brilliant storytellers and the show is the perfect mix of drama and suspense to keep our Traitors and Faithfuls craving more.”
Per Vulture, the U.K. version of the series is also set to hit Peacock later this year.
Hosted by Cumming, the unscripted competition series (which dropped its first season in full on Jan. 12) joins 20 contestants together (including reality A-listers) to complete a series of challenges with the objective of earning a cash prize. But three of the contestants coined “the traitors” devise a plan to steal the prize from the other contestants coined “the faithful.”
The cast for its debut season includes Survivor‘s Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick and Cirie Fields, Big Brother‘s Cody Calafiore and Rachel Reilly Villegas, Below Deck‘s Kate Chastain, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Brandi Glanville and more. (See who we want to enter the castle in Season 2.)
Will you be checking back into Cumming’s castle? Let us know in the comments!
You guys overhyped the heck out of this. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it and look forward to a second season.
Agreed. I’m not sure if all the buzz I read (not just here) was accurate or a bit exaggerated. That said, I also enjoyed it and I’m glad it was renewed but it was just another reality competition/game show to me.
Really? I thoroughly enjoyed it and binge watched it in two sittings. I felt it was appropriately hyped haha
I watched in 24hrs and I was wanting MORE!!!
I think it’s the best reality show since the debut of Survivor!
I watched the Traitors, but I think that it might be more interesting if the viewer is also trying to guess who the traitors are until the end. The final episode of season 1 was a disappointment since it just ended quickly with nothing when only 3 remained. I felt a little let down.
How did the traitors behave differently? To identify them?
They didn’t really “have a plan” that would make them stand out.
I was irritated at the end because final two Faithful didn’t do the basic math to realize there was still a Traitor left.
I know you get caught up in the moment but come on. Think about what was just said to you.
When Arie quit and admitted he was a Traitor, there was no reason the think there was a 4th. Didn’t they tell them that there were 3 Traitors? There was no mention that they might replace an eliminated Traitor
The contestants were never told how many Traitors there were.
Rachel Reilly confirmed this in an interview on realityblurred.
They all knew there was 3 to start. After Cody and Christian were revealed, they could only reasonably suspect there was 1 left. However, when Arie admitted he was a Traitor he clearly said he was a Faithful but got recruited to be a traitor. At that point, Andy and Quinton should have known there was one traitor left and they would get nothing.
No sorry but they didn’t know they were three to start go back and watch it again and you’ll see.
Based on an interview Cirie did, they were told there would be anywhere between 3 and 5 Traitors to start with. So they did know there were at least 3. Just because you didn’t see it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
I agree.
We need to be among the Faithful’s!
That would definitely change the show and make it a more Clue solving for us as well.
Ratings gold for Peacock and NBC if they choose….
I enjoyed this until the end but Cirie played it so dirty it ruined the whole thing for me. I honestly don’t know how she can be proud of that.
Did you want her to wear a name tag saying TRAITOR?
So not the point. There was no reason other than pure selfishness and greed to do Aire dirty like that.
Selfishness and greed!? It was a competition show. I would have done the same.
Well we’re all different. I’d rather share my winnings with someone who worked with me till the end rather than throw them under the bus. But like I said, to each their own 🙂
But he didn’t work with her til the end. He worked with her NEAR the end. Part of her reasoning was that she had to play traitor longer, hide her emotions longer, do more of the work longer. He was recruited much, much later. Why should she split down the middle when she had to do all the hiding and acting from the very beginning when he only got tapped to be a traitor 1 challenge away from the end of the game?
Yes EvaBaby. Yes, I am aware and stand by what I said.
Do you know how rich Arie is??? And Cirie just wanted to help her family with the money. If I had a choice to help my family with the whole pot, or give it to a rich guy I’d been working with for a few days or so, my family would win – every. single. time.
How was it dirty to paly within the scope of the rules of the game?
Oooh, a reunion. I am very interested to see what they all have to say after the fact.
I loved it, but I think the best was Cummings and his outfits!!! Best dressed host ever!!
I really enjoyed it. In fact, I liked it so much that I went to track down the UK version and the Australia version after finishing the US version and binged both of those too. I like knowing the identity of the traitors from the beginning, but they could move it back an episode or two so that we get to know everyone prior to discovering who they are. I also wish they added an element of sabotage to the game similar to The Mole, except with that game it becomes annoying when people purposefully sabotage to throw everyone else off. Then it’s like the actual Mole doesn’t have to do anything. But since we’re talking about The Traitors here, I would like to add that I think the cast should be all reality or all fresh faces. Mixing the together adds mistrust and I think some of the bite of betrayal is lessened by that. I sound like a horrible person, but I’m actually a really nice guy. I just know this is a game (that I’d never personally play) and don’t judge the players for being strategic and backhanded to get the prize.
They need to recruit much smarter contestants for season two because watching the majority of those dimwitted people was so infuriating I was yelling at my TV.
I binged it all in one day. Loved it. I was just disappointed there was no reunion. Problem solved!
The UK version was much better and deserved the hype. No need for the addition of previous reality contestants.
Alan Cumming however is a wonderfully host.
Loved the show. Couldn’t wait to see the finale!
Andy Cohen? The great Alan Cummings should oversee the reunion. If he isn’t available ANYONE would be better suited than Andy Cohen! Absolute NO to Andy Cohen!
Totally agree!
Definitely need to do a reunion type show at the end. I want to see the reaction to who the Traitors are.
Love love loved it! I can’t wait for another season! In fact I want to apply but on studiolambert it says applications are closed. So when will we be able to do that?
Netflix has Traitors UK and Australia.
Oops. It’s Peacock.
Finally got around to watching this and it lives up to the hype. It was really good and addictive and I was so glad that Cirie finally pulled out a win.