Warner Bros. International Television Production has released details about the slate of Non-Scripted and Scripted Formats ahead of Mipcom 2023. The list of premium titles spans the genres of Primetime Entertainment, Competition, Factual Entertainment, Comedy and Drama. Representatives of the company will be located at the Warner Bros. Discovery stand C17 at MIPCOM.
The catalog includes "The Golden Bachelor" (ABC, US), produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television in association with Warner Horizon, is the latest iteration of reality dating behemoth "The Bachelor" franchise, which gives one hopeless romantic a second chance at love in the search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life. The hugely anticipated spin-off delivered the biggest multiplatform audience in The Bachelor franchise in nearly 3 years and ranks as ABC’s number 1 series premier ever on Hulu. In addition, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television's project created in association with Warner Horizon and Apploff Entertainment, "Lotería Loca" for CBS in the US forms part of the list. The title is a high-octane gameshow is based on the Latin game of chance similar to bingo, popularly known as ‘Lotería’.
The launches Factual Entertainment has confirmed for Mipcom include "The Nevermets" for Channel 4 in the UK from "Wall to Wall," which follows daters who have all fallen madly in love online as they each make the potentially life changing decision to cross international waters to meet for the very first time and "Toy Hospital" W/T (Channel 5, UK) from Ricochet, which celebrates the history and nostalgia of the world of toys, as the skilled experts at the Toy Hospital bring back broken and damaged toys to their original glory. Whilst high-stakes cookery competition Five Star Chef (Channel 4, UK), produced by Twenty Twenty, sees talented up and coming chefs battle it out to prove they have the culinary skills and business brain to win a once in a lifetime prize – a residency in an exclusive Five Star hotel.
Amongst the Scripted Format offerings include comedies "Chantal" for VRT in Belgium, the female-led soft crime series from Eyeworks Film and Television that was in the top 3 most watched programs in Belgium in 2022, and "I Don’t Like Driving" for TNT/Max in Spain, produced by Sayaka Producciones Audiovisuales, where a surly professor learning to drive for the first time aged 40 finds unexpected help in one of his students and a kooky driving instructor.
Drama formats launching include German original series "Two Sides of the Abyss" for RTL Plus/Max from WBITVP Germany and RTL Deutschland, the thriller which is the most streamed German original series in all Max EMEA markets, and "4 Blocks," by TNT, produced by TNT Serie, Wiedemann & Berg Television, which tells a story of friendship and family, treason and guilt in an Arab clan living in central Berlin.
The company will also present several returning WBITVP formats, such as "FBoy Island," "Reality Queens of the Jungle" and "The Twelve," which were nominated across Mipcom Awards ceremonies at TBI’s Content Innovation Awards and the C21 Format Awards.
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