Warner Bros. International Television Production has revealed 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 ultimate test of brainpower, 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. Fifty players start on the outer ring of a 360-degree studio arena. Their goal? Survive the round and move forward through fast thinking under pressure. As they advance, the questions get harder and the circle tightens until only one contestant remains, stepping into the Final Circle where strategy, speed and brainpower collide in a high-stakes showdown for the grand prize.
From WBITVP Netherlands, producers of the hit Reality Queens franchise for streamer Videoland, comes Reality Kings on Safari, where a group of male reality stars swap likes and luxury for survival in the wild. Split into rival camps, and with no phones, no home comforts and no easy way out, the stars must navigate the wild and fight for survival as challenges test both brawn and brains to see who will thrive under pressure and who will crack when the wild gets real.
World’s Wildest Race 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. But as they navigate spectacular routes and breathtaking destinations, arriving first doesn’t always mean victory. Bonus challenges along the way can turn the tables in an instant, shaving hours off the clock or sending them wildly off course. For some, it’s about winning. For others, it’s the thrill of the ride. Produced by Collectif for Kanal 5 and HBO Max Denmark.
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.
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. When Otto’s first love ends and his best friend moves away, he’s left alone for the first time. Heartbroken, restless and searching for connection, the door to new truths opens up through unexpected parties and late-night adventures. Along the way, Otto begins to realise that growing up rarely happens on schedule, and that sometimes the biggest steps forward come from losing your footing first.
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.”
