WBD UK & Ireland orders slew of new & returning unscripted titles

The Yorkshire Auction House (Source: STV Studios)

Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland has ordered nearly 100 hours of new and returning series that will debut across its linear channels, before heading to Discovery+, in the second half of 2024 and early 2025.

The French Antiques River Cruise is a new 8 x 60-minute series, produced by True North for Quest, coming to the channel later this summer. The show will see antique dealer brothers Henry and Edward Vaughan set sail on a river cruise on the hunt for French treasures to take home to Stratford Upon Avon, where they’ll auction off for a profit.

STV Studios-produced The Derbyshire Auction House is a new 10 x 60-minute series coming to Really in July. Viewers will be introduced to auctioneer Irita Marriott as she builds her auction business in the heart of South Derbyshire.

Meanwhile, also produced by STV Studios as part of the same franchise, The Yorkshire Auction House returns for a fifth series on Really. Starting in October, viewers will see auctioneer Angus Ashworth travel across the UK clearing homes of unique treasures, whilst discovering the stories behind the objects and the people who owned them. The fourth season of Celebrity Yorkshire Auction House will also launch in November.

Also headed to Really later this year is the seventh series of The Bad Skin Clinic from Full Fat TV, while Fifth Gear is returning to Quest, produced by North One, as is Outback Opal Hunters, which is back for its eighth season with a 20 x 60-minutes season produced by Prospero Productions due to air in summer.