Indies part of 149-hour commissioning package across Quest Red, Really and HGTV

The Bad Skin Clinic

Warner Bros Discovery UK has ordered factual-entertainment lifestyle titles from Full Fat TV, STV Studios and Air TV as part of a 149-hour commissioning package.

Full Fat has scored an eight-hour Quest Red commission for The Big Body Clinic, in which ‘weight inclusive’ experts help larger patients often too fearful of seeking help due to the stigma they’ve faced.

The series will air next year on Quest Red alongside sibling series The Bad Skin Clinic, which will return for a fifth and six run (20 x 60-minute two-series order).

STV Studios is spinning out its The Yorkshire Auction House brand for eight-part The Edinburgh Auction House. The series will air on Really in 2023 and follows 5th generation auctioneer, Sybelle Thomson, working from her three different auction houses, helping people clear out their homes, sifting through lifetime’s worth of personal possessions, and secure the best profit from them at auction.

It will complement series three and four of The Yorkshire Auction House next year and a second and third run of its celebrity spin-off, which will air later in 2022.

Air TV is behind HGTV’s Derelict Rescue (10 x 60-minute), exploring some of Britain’s most ambitious home builders. It will feature those who take on the country’s most rundown and unusual buildings from a water tower and airport control tower, to an abandoned railway station, to an old schoolhouse.

Air’s long-standing blue light series Helicopter ER has been handed a further two series totalling 29 hours for Really. Beagle Media’s Cornwall Air 999 returns for a 10-part second series in 2023.

Home makeover programming continues with Koska’s Charlotte Church’s Dream Build, also airing on Really, which has been handed an eight-part second series. Previously announced True North-produced My Dream Derelict Home In The Sun (16 x 60-minutes), featuring property expert Scarlette Douglas, will come to HGTV.

Clare Laycock, senior vice-president planning & insights, head of entertainment, WBD UK, said: “Lifestyle entertainment is one of our key genres, with highly engaged, passionate audiences and we’re delighted to commission more linear shows for this loyal fanbase.”

Laycock and Charlotte Reid, vice-president of lifestyle and entertainment commissioning, ordered the series.

Executive producers for WBD are Matt Reid, Romy Page and Louise Brown.

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