Destination X 'returning for second series'
Destination X is returning for a second series after the first season attracted strong viewing figures, it has been reported.
Destination X is reportedly coming back for a second series.
The BBC reality show generated strong viewing figures when the first season dropped in July 2025, and that is believed to have proved to the corporation that splashing out millions of pounds to make the Rob Brydon-fronted programme is worthwhile.
A TV insider told The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column: "The show developed quite a following, and those devotees will obviously be thrilled it is coming back - despite fears it may not.
"The only downside is that filming won’t start until late summer, which means that by the time it airs next year, almost two years will have passed between the first and second series.
"But in a TV landscape where lots of shows don’t make it to a second series, fans will be prepared to wait."
Destination X sees 13 participants travelling around Europe on a blacked out bus, and they are tasked with figuring out where they are heading, with the winner pocketing a £100,000 cash prize.
As they travel through the continent, they have a series of challenges to earn more clues.
At the end of each episode, they place an X on the map, with the person putting theirs furthest from the actual location being booted off the bus.
And Rob, 61, said Destination X combines the BBC's other hit reality TV shows, The Traitors and Race Across the World.
In July 2025, he told the BBC: "I've never done a TV show on this scale before.
"I loved the idea of it, the combination of having to work out clues as to where you are and having to get on with each other.
"It struck me as the best bits of The Traitors with the best bits of Race Across the World."
The Gavin and Stacey actor admitted he became more "invested" in the show than he expected.
Rob said: "I was surprised at how invested I became in it; it didn't take long at all to get really fully invested in it.
"You get involved with the contestants, and you feel for them when they are struggling, and you celebrate with them when they do well.
"It was a far more involving experience than I was expecting."
