December 2025

Celebrity Traitors finale brings in 15 million faithful viewers

The first series of The Celebrity Traitors concluded its run with an incredible 15 million faithful viewers and has become the biggest title of 2025 across the UK at 7 days so far this year (including both scripted, unscripted and events).

The Celebrity Traitors has seen the biggest on-demand audience of any series across the market at 7 days since records began (incl. both BVOD and SVOD). Episode 6 has seen the highest 28 day figure for the series so far at 15.2m. The series to date at 28 days (episodes 1 to 6) has averaged 14.8 million viewers per episode, with 3.1m 16-34 year olds tuning in.

December 2025

The Traitors Season 4 launch date confirmed

Claudia Winkleman is to open the castle doors once again for The Traitors S4 on New Year’s Day, 1st January 2026 on BBC One and iPlayer.

November 2025

Celebrity Traitors series 2 announcement

After the success of The Celebrity Traitors, the BBC has confirmed that celebrities will return to the round table in 2026 for a second season, along with The Traitors S4 and The Traitors S5.

November 2025

Studio Lambert Wins 3 Televisual Bulldogs!

Studio Lambert took home three Televisual Bulldogs at this year’s awards ceremony:

The Traitors S2 wins Best Entertainment
Race Across The World S4 wins Best Factual Entertainment
Studio Lambert wins Best Indie

November 2025

Studio Lambert’s Big Week Of TV

Studio Lambert has had a huge week of TV, with the launch of Season 2 of Squid Game: The Challenge on Tuesday on Netflix, the launch of Celebrity Race Across The World at 8pm on Thursday on BBC One, immediately followed by the final of The Celebrity Traitors at 9pm on BBC One, with the week ending with Gogglebox at 9pm on Friday, Channel 4.

November 2025

Squid Game: The Challenge S2 launches on Netflix

The real players have arrived! Squid Game: The Challenge has returned to Netflix for Season 2.

Who will go all the way to win the grand prize of $4.56M?

Watch the full series now on Netflix.

October 2025

The Celebrity Traitors launches with 11.7M viewers

The first episode of The Celebrity Traitors has been viewed by over 11.7m viewers, with 2.2M 16-34 year olds tuning in, breaking its own record for most viewed episode of the programme.

This makes the series debut of The Celebrity Traitors the biggest unscripted episode across the UK market since 2022.

September 2025

The Traitors US wins five Emmys

The Traitors US took home the following awards at this year’s Emmy’s:

Outstanding Reality Competition Program
Outstanding Cinematography For A Reality Program
Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality Competition Program
Outstanding Directing For A Reality Program
Outstanding Picture Editing For A Structured Reality Or Competition Program

Alan Cumming and The Traitors US team accepted the awards at the ceremony in Los Angeles.

September 2025

Celebrity Race Across The World cast and route announced

The cast of Celebrity Race Across The World has been announced ahead of taking part in an epic race from Isla Mujeres, Mexico to Península de La Guajira, Colombia.

The celebrities taking part in this year’s race are:
Anita Rani and her dad, Bal
Dylan Llewellyn and his mum, Jackie
Molly Rainford and Tyler West
Roman Kemp and his sister, Harleymoon

August 2025

The Traitors US Civillian Edition Announced

Following the success of The Traitors US, Alan Cumming has opened the castle doors to the public for a civillian series of the show, coming to NBC in 2026.

August 2025

The Inheritance launches on Channel 4

Actress, model and British icon Elizabeth Hurley is ‘The Deceased’ in Channel 4’s wickedly immersive new reality series, The Inheritance

Overseeing the stipulations of The Deceased’s will is her Executor and trusted legal counsel, Robert Rinder.

The lucky 13 players must work together to complete The Deceased’s final requests, a series of devilishly difficult assignments that will test their diligence, decency and ruthlessness in a race to claim what they truly deserve.

The Deceased’s game has a delicious twist: only one player can collect the money released from each request. To claim it, they must convince the others that they alone deserve to take all the cash they earned.

July 2025

Latest News from Studio Lambert Scripted

Studio Lambert’s scripted team have been very busy in recent months. Season Three of BBC’s Boarders is currently in production and set to air in 2026.

We’ve also signed a first-look deal with the creator of Boarders, Daniel Lawrence Taylor, to develop new scripted projects.

And we’ve recently optioned Hallie Rubenhold’s highly acclaimed true crime book, Story of a Murder, to be adapted by Amanda Coe.

Our in-house scripted team now includes:

Madeleine Sinclair – Creative Director
Ian Hogan – Head of Production
Gill Lang – Director, Legal & Business Affairs
Laura Timms – Head of Development
Hannah Durham – Script Editor (Boarders, Queenie)
Hannah Samuel-Ogbu – Assistant Script Editor (Boarders)
Hannah Radley – Development Editor
Hannah Westall – Scripted Coordinator

June 2025

Stephen Lambert awarded an OBE

A huge congratulations to our CEO, Stephen Lambert, who has been awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours. From Faking It, Wife Swap and Undercover Boss to Gogglebox, The Traitors and Squid Game: The Challenge, he has helped shape genre-defining TV that is loved all over the world.

June 2025

Boarders Season Three announced

Boarders Season Three has been announced and the South London teens are back at St. Gilbert’s with new enemies, love interests and broken friendships.

Jodie Campbell (Leah), Sekou Diaby (Toby), Aruna Jalloh (Femi), Myles Kamwendo (Omar) and Josh Tedeku (Jaheim) will all reprise their roles for the final series, alongside writer and creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor who returns as their mentor Gus. Taylor will also make his directorial debut this series, directing the final episode.

The six-part series will be produced by Studio Lambert for the BBC, in association with All3Media International and is expected to air in 2026.

June 2025

Celebrity Gogglebox returns for Season Seven

Celebrity Gogglebox is back for its seventh series, with lots of new famous faces including Vicky Pattison & Pete Wicks, James and Clair Buckley and Larry and George Lamb, as well as fan favourites returning, including Rylan and Linda, Jennifer Saunders and Beattie Edmondson and Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aleshe.

Fridays at 9pm, Channel 4.

May 2025

Elizabeth Hurley to play ‘The Deceased’ in The Inheritance

Actress, model and British icon Elizabeth Hurley is to play ‘The Deceased’ in Channel 4’s wickedly immersive new reality series, The Inheritance.

Thirteen strangers are summoned to a grand stately home, where they will compete for part of the fortune left in the will of The Deceased, a fabulously glamourous benefactor.

But winning the money won’t be easy. The Deceased had a wicked sense of humour and has designed a mischievous game to ensure only the best players can get their hands on her fortune.

Broadcaster, barrister and author Robert Rinder MBE is The Executor.

The Inheritance comes to Channel 4 later this year.

May 2025

The Celebrity Traitors cast revealed

This autumn, 19 celebrities will play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning a cash prize up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice.

The celebrities joining Claudia Winkleman in the Scottish Highlands are:

Alan Carr – Comedian
Cat Burns – Singer/Songwriter
Celia Imrie – Actor
Charlotte Church – Singer/Activist
Clare Balding – Broadcaster and Author
David Olusoga – Historian and Filmmaker
Joe Marler – Former England Rugby Player and Podcaster
Joe Wilkinson – Comedian
Jonathan Ross – Presenter
Kate Garraway – Broadcaster
Lucy Beaumont – Comedian
Mark Bonnar – Actor
Nick Mohammed – Actor and Comedian
Niko Omilana – Content Creator
Paloma Faith – Singer/Songwriter and Actor
Ruth Codd – Actor
Stephen Fry – Actor, Writer, Presenter
Tameka Empson – Actor and Comedian
Tom Daley – Olympian, Author, Broadcaster and Entrepreneur

Coming soon to BBC One and iPlayer.

April 2025

Four BAFTA TV Nominations for Studio Lambert

Five intrepid duos are tasked with undertaking the trip of a lifetime, racing over 14,000km across Asia, the world’s largest continent, taking in three of its most diverse and fascinating nations – China, Nepal and India. And they have to do it with the lowest budget in the show’s history – just over £1,000 per person.

Wednesdays at 9pm, BBC One & iPlayer.

March 2025

Four BAFTA TV Nominations for Studio Lambert

The nominations for the BAFTA TV Awards have been announced and Studio Lamber is up for the following:
Memorable Moment – The Traitors
Entertainment Performance – Claudia Winkleman / The Traitors
Reality – The Traitors
Factual Entertainment – Race Across The World

March 2025

The Traitors and Josh Tedeku win at the RTS Awards

This year’s RTS Awards saw The Traitors win in the Entertainment category and Josh Tedeku (Boarders) win the Breakthrough award.

Claudia Winkleman (The Traitors) also won the Outstanding Achievement Award.

March 2025

Boarders TUBI Dates Announced

Fans of Boarders in North America and LATAM will be able to watch Season Two on April 7th on TUBI.

Also currently available on BBC iPlayer in the UK.

March 2025

The Traitors wins Best Entertainment at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards

The awards keep coming for The Traitors as Series Two wins Best Entertainment at this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

February 2025

Channel 4 Announce ‘The Inheritance’

Twelve strangers arrive at a grand English country estate, lured by one irresistible opportunity: to inherit a chunk of a vast fortune. The fortune belonged to a glamorous benefactor known only as ‘The Deceased’ who has left video messages for the players from beyond the grave.

Produced by Studio Lambert with GroupM Motion Entertainment, The Inheritance will be coming to Channel 4 later this year.

February 2025

The Traitors US wins Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television at the Producers Guild of America Awards

The Traitors US continues to go from strength to strength as it wins the award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television at this year’s Producers Guild of America Awards.

February 2025

Studio Lambert wins Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards

Studio Lambert held its title as Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards for the second year in a row and for the third time since 2020.

Squid Game: The Challenge also picked up the award for Best Entertainment Programme.

February 2025

Boarders Series Two launches on BBC Three and iPlayer

With a new headmistress at the helm and their scholarships under threat, the Boarders will need to fight to survive, while an American exchange student arrives to shake things up.

Watch all episodes now on BBC iPlayer.

January 2025

The Traitors US is the #1 Unscripted Series in the US

Season Three of The Traitors US becomes the #1 unscripted streaming show in the US on Peacock. Achieving 499M minutes of viewing in the first week of its launch.

January 2025

The Traitors reaches a record high of 10.3M viewers

Season Three of The Traitors on BBC One is the most watched to date with a season average of 10.3M viewers, becoming the biggest show in the UK’s unscripted market since 2022.