Warner Bros. International Television Production features its new formats slate for MIPCOM 2025, with a wide range of stand-out entertainment, reality and scripted formats featuring everything from brain-busting game shows and adventure challenges to killer cold cases and bold relationship dramas.
"The Final Circle", from Satisfaction for TF1 in France, challenges every part of the mind - from logic and memory to language, calculation and visual skills, and puts players under pressure to prove the full power of their brain.
From WBITVP Netherlands comes "Reality Kings on Safari", where a group of male reality stars swap likes and luxury for survival in the wild.
"World’s Wildest Race," produced by Collectif for Kanal 5 and HBO Max Denmark, sends two celebrity teams out on the ultimate road trip challenge, and a journey that’s as much about friendship and fun as it is about the race to win.
Joining these are "Custom Cars", by Ricochet for Quest in the UK, a high octane ride through the wild world of outrageous modified motors and the personalities who build them; Wall to Wall’s "The Murder Club" for BBC Two, that takes the forgotten cold cases of history, and sheds new light on them to unmask the killers of the past that were never caught; "The Unheard Tapes", also from Wall to Wall for BBC One, that retells the pivotal moments of history using the real voices of those who lived them; and "Special Rescue", produced by WBITVP Finland for YLE, a reality format that shows diversity is strength as adults with learning disabilities join a fire station’s volunteer unit and demonstrate that anyone, given the chance, can become a hero.
Scripted Formats
Leading scripted formats is "Oh, Otto!", the award-winning and unflinchingly honest story about love, belonging, and finding yourself when life falls apart, produced originally for Streamz in Belgium.
Oh, Otto! joins a raft of scripted format hits from WBITVP’s Belgian company, Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, including psychological courtroom anthology "The Twelve", which has had its third season in Australia, "The Divine Monster" about a wealthy family’s greed, corruption and suspicious deaths, and "Double Life", where two women’s lives collide when they both discover they had a relationship with the same man only after he dies.
André Renaud, WBITVP’s GVP of Format and Finished Sales, comments: "The global appetite for high-concept, high-stakes formats is as strong as ever, and 'The Final Circle' and 'Reality Kings on Safari' deliver on that scale and energy, with viewers flocking to them as they launch locally. Audiences are actually exploring adventure and passion like this in a variety of ways, including on the open road of 'World’s Wildest Race', through the lens of car culture in 'Custom Cars', in the powerful storytelling of series like 'The Murder Club', 'The Unheard Tapes', or 'Special Rescue', and in bold scripted formats such as 'Oh, Otto!' or 'The Twelve'. We’re delighted to be launching a strong and varied slate of unscripted and scripted formats, with ideas that can resonate and be reimagined by buyers around the world.”
