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RTL announces a fifth season of The Traitors for 2027
RTL has ordered a fifth season of The Traitors, its German reality show built around deception and suspicion.
Host Sonja Zietlow will return to guide a new group of celebrity contestants through the game.
The show’s format pits hidden traitors against other players, who try to identify and remove them at votes around a table.
The renewal follows the fourth season’s reported reach of more than 20 million people across television and streaming in August 2026.
Filming is planned for spring 2027, but the contestants have not been announced.
RTL has not set a broadcast date, so when the new season will air remains unclear.
RTL has announced a fifth season of its reality show The Traitors, titled Die Verräter in Germany.
Filming is planned to begin in spring 2027.
Sonja Zietlow will return as host, while the new celebrity contestants have not been announced.
RTL said the show’s brand reached more than 20 million people across television and streaming in August 2026.
The fourth season averaged 1.84 million viewers per episode across those platforms.
- Who
- RTL announced the fifth season. Sonja Zietlow will return as host.
- What
- The Traitors will have a fifth season.
- When
- Filming is planned to begin in spring 2027. No broadcast date has been announced.
- Where
- Not stated
- Why
- RTL said the show reached more than 20 million people in August 2026, and the fourth season averaged 1.84 million viewers per episode.
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The fourth season aired as an eight-episode television event, with episodes also available in advance on RTL+.
RTL announced a fifth season and said Sonja Zietlow would return as host.
Filming for the fifth season is planned to begin.
- Season
- Fifth season
- Filming
- Planned to begin in spring 2027
- Host
- Sonja Zietlow
- August 2026 reach
- More than 20 million people across television and streaming
- Average audience
- 1.84 million viewers per episode across television and streaming
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What people are saying
The Traitors is for me one of the best examples of what modern entertainment should look like today: a strong idea, a distinctive setting, real suspense and a game that has you involved from the very first moment.
Actually, one season a year is far too little.