The Traitors series 2 - Everything you need to know

The ultimate reality game of detection, backstabbing and trust is back on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

Claudia Winkleman greets 22 strangers as they arrive at a beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands with the hope of winning up to £120,000 in The Traitors series two.

The Traitors will return on Wednesday 3 January from 9pm on BBC One and BBC iPlayer and episodes 2 and 3 will be available on iPlayer immediately after. The show will air on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights.

• Watch The Traitors series 1 on BBC iPlayer

All will be revealed in due course...

“There’s an awful lot of tweed,” says host Claudia Winkleman of the new series. “The missions this year are epic. The producers are so clever as the missions are incredibly important as it is a chance for the contestants to switch off from strategising and plotting. They get fresh air, they run around, they work as a team. The scale this year is beyond.”

And she reveals that there’s one round table that left her shaking...

• Read more: Claudia Winkleman teases “epic” challenges, tense round tables and “an awful lot of tweed” in The Traitors series 2

The Traitors: Uncloaked is a brand new visualised podcast, hosted by award-winning stand up comedian and presenter Ed Gamble, that will take fans of the smash-hit entertainment show The Traitors deeper into the castle with dissection of the episodes and exclusive access to the banished and murdered players.

As soon as viewers have finished with their latest fix of The Traitors on BBC One, made by Studio Lambert, they’ll be able to join Ed, cast members and celebrity guests for all the best analysis and reaction to the latest betrayals, mind games and manipulations. This access all areas visual podcast will be available on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer with an extended version on BBC Sounds.

Made by Listen, each episode will feature an exclusive interview with the contestants that get banished and murdered along the way, and bonus unseen footage where they learn the identity of the Traitors for the very first time. How will they react when they discover who has been betraying them?

The episodes will air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, and an extended version with additional guests, further theories and essential analysis will be available on BBC Sounds.

• Read more: The Traitors: Uncloaked comes to the BBC