How to watch The Traitors abroad – stream Season 2 outside the UK

The Traitors is back for a second season! And yep: we're already hooked on the latest outing of the hit BBC reality show.

If you're a Faithful fan and you're heading outside the UK soon, don't worry: here's how to watch The Traitors abroad.

The Traitors is back for Season 2 - we'll talk you through how to stream the BBC hit show outside the UK

Cult-show-in-the-making The Traitors first hit TV screens back in November 2022, for a debut series that quickly snowballed in popularity.

Now it's back for a second season, with host Claudia Winkleman on fine form, bringing some much-needed intrigue and drama into the January gloom.

Mere days into its month-long run, the latest series of Traitors has already been met by soaring viewing figures as a new series of players head up to a castle in the Scottish Highlands.

Among these Faithful contestants are a set of Traitors who need eliminate the rest in order to get their hands on the £120,000 prize.

At the end of most episodes, players gather in a Round Table, cast secrets vote - and one unlucky contestant is banished from the castle.

Deceit, double-crossing and back-stabbing: what's not to like?

If you've not been watching Season 2 and you need to catch up on the action, you can watch every episode aired so far on BBC iPlayer

But if you're heading abroad soon, you'll find that streaming The Traitors on iPlayer is a challenge, as the platform's content is geo-blocked outside the UK.

However, there's an easy workaround to this - all you need to do is subscribe to a VPN like ExpressVPN or NordVPN.

Confused? We've got it all explained in the following section.

To keep up-to-date with all the latest action at the castle, follow our Traitors Series 2 live blog.

How to watch The Traitors Season 2 outside the UK

To stream The Traitors from BBC iPlayer abroad, you'll need a VPN: a handy tool that routes your internet activity through a remote server.

Firstly, download a VPN such as ExpressVPN or NordVPN to whatever device you use for streaming.

One that's done, load the VPN on your device, and select a UK-based server.

After that, head to the Traitors hub on iPlayer, select an episode, press play and let the deceit begin!

Using a VPN to access geo-blocked content abroad - such as that on BBC iPlayer - is totally legal.

However, to access any BBC content outside the UK, you still need to be a TV license-payer. To find out more, read our how to watch BBC abroad explainer.

Where can I watch The Traitors outside the UK?

To watch the UK version of The Traitors, you'll need to follow the steps we've outlined in the section above.

But there are many other versions of The Traitors out there: in fact, the original was created in The Netherlands as De Verraders.

There's also a US show hosted by the brilliant Alan Cummings and features both celebrity and everyday contestants - you can read our how to watch The Traitors show in the US to find out more.

Other countries with their own versions of the hit show include Germany, Denmark, Greece, Australia and Hungary: clearly the format has a huge, global appeal.