WBITVP launches New Zealand drama & D-Day docuseries on MIPTV slate

FGirl Island (Source: WBITVP)

Warner Bros. International Television Production has unveiled a slate of new scripted and unscripted programming that it is bringing to MIPTV next week.

The new titles cover a range of documentary, reality and factual entertainment titles alongside a new New Zealand drama series.

D-Day: The Unheard Tapes is a 3 x 60-minute docuseries produced to coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 2024. Using young actors lip-syncing to recorded wartime interviews with British, American and German soldiers and French witnesses—combined with archival footage and immersive re-creation—it recalls moments of bravery, fear and what it was like to live through the unfolding invasion.

Britain Behind Bars: A Secret History is a 3 x 60-minute series following British barrister and TV personality Robert Rinder as he uncovers the hidden past of three high-profile prisons. Also with a crime theme, Flordelis: A Family Crime (4 x 60-minutes) tells the true story of Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, a Brazilian singer-turned-congresswoman-turned-pastor who was arrested for murdering her husband after enlisting the help of some of her 50 adopted children.

Born From The Same Stranger (4 x 60-minutes) is a new factual entertainment series that uses detective work and the latest DNA technology to help people born from sperm or egg donations find their unknown blood relations and solve mysteries about their identities and heritage. Meanwhile, My Family Mystery (6 x 60-minutes) sets out to solve different mysteries that impact families.

FGirl Island (10 x 60-minutes) is a spin-off from FBoy Island. Nikki Glaser returns as host in the show that sees three men looking for love joined on a tropical island by 24 women; half are self-proclaimed nice girls, while the other half are FGirls: sexually liberated, ambitious and empowered women who know how to get what they want.

In Kevin Hart’s Muscle Car Crew (two seasons, 8 x 60-minutes & 6 x 60-minutes), comedian and Hollywood star Kevin Hart travels across the US with a group of friends known as the Plastic Cup Boyz. They explore and celebrate America’s car culture and undertake their very own car transformation—starting with the basics first.

Bring The Drama (6 x 60-minutes) is a vocational competition series hosted by popular British actor, comedian and musician Bill Bailey, while Toy Hospital (6 x 60-minutes) sees Britain’s top ‘Toy Doctors’ offer a lifeline to a raft of broken or damaged patients and their desperate owners.

Other new unscripted titles include gay dating series Boys Like Boys (10 x 60-minutes) and Glow Up China (6 x 60-minutes), which sees talented young Chinese make-up artists compete in creative challenges to become the country’s most promising make-up star of tomorrow.

WBITVP will also be launching New Zealand drama series Testify (6 x 60-minutes), starring Craig Hall, Vinnie Bennet and Kat Brown. The show follows a charismatic young pastor who clashes with his father’s rich and powerful evangelical church and forms an unlikely alliance with a queer podcaster.

With the help of his estranged brother, they uncover a conspiracy of historical sexual abuse. As they get closer to the truth, they make powerful enemies, and their father fights back – leading to a dramatic showdown.

Charlotte Raban, WBITVP’s VP of finished and format sales, said that the slate covers “topical and on-trend subjects, and with everything from beautifully crafted documentaries and intriguing crime stories to innovative factual entertainment series and a big, noisy reality/dating show with a difference.”