{"id":913521,"date":"2026-10-02T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913521\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:58:12","slug":"celebrity-traitors-ratings-ep-1-watched-by-record-9-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913521\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Celebrity Traitors&#8217; Ratings: Ep 1 Watched By Record 9 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bbc\" data-tag=\"bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/celebrity-traitors\/\" id=\"auto-tag_celebrity-traitors\" data-tag=\"celebrity-traitors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrity Traitors<\/a> launch has become one of the most highly-anticipated of the year and a colossal 8.9 million viewers tuned in last night. They watched an opener of high high drama, and a little bit of eccentric comedy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNo spoilers in this article \u2013 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/build%20you%20a%20proper%20top%2010%20of%20the%20highest%20verified%202026%20overnight%20audiences,%20using%20the%20daily%20Broadcast%20overnight%20rankings\" target=\"_blank\">check out our recap here<\/a> \u2013 but per the just-released overnight figures, last night\u2019s 75-minute opener was watched by 8.9 million, peaking just over 9 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis is comfortably a record for the opening episode of The Traitors in the UK across both celebrity and civilian versions. The number will inevitably grow once people who missed last night\u2019s ep catch up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast year\u2019s Celebrity Traitors Season 1 kicked off with 3 million fewer viewers and the opener of the civilian Traitors from earlier this year was similarly far behind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLast night\u2019s ep was watched by more than half of the overall number of people tuning in to TV at the time, an enormous share of nearly 55%. It became the second most-watched episode of TV this year, excluding sport, behind only the final episode of the civillian Traitors from January. It was followed by companion show Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked, which drew in 3 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCelebrity Traitors is into its second season and will air every Thursday and Friday night at 8 p.m. GMT (12 p.m. PT) for the coming month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCast this season includes Jerry Hall, Richard E. Grant, Myha\u2019la, Bella Ramsey and Maya Jama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThere is also Joe Lycett, Miranda Hart, Romesh Ranganathan, Amol Rajan, Professor Hannah Fry, James Blunt, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Michael Sheen, Ross Kemp, Sharon Rooney, Joanne McNally, King Kenny, Rob Beckett, and Sebastian Croft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe show is now arguably the BBC\u2019s biggest entertainment juggernaut and anticipation was huge for last night\u2019s opener. Trails have been shown during all BBC primetime shows for a while now. The fifth season of the civilian Traitors will kick off early next year. In the U.S., Peacock continues to air a successful version hosted by Scottish presenter Alan Cumming. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCelebrity Traitors is produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/studio-lambert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_studio-lambert\" data-tag=\"studio-lambert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Lambert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s Celebrity Traitors launch has become one of the most highly-anticipated of the year and a colossal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,1576,133233,134,106999,427],"class_list":["post-913521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbc","tag-celebrity-traitors","tag-entertainment","tag-studio-lambert","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}