Nine gets First on Scene with upcoming factual series

Nine has entered a pre-sale deal for a new factual series, First on Scene, which captures unbelievable acts caught on camera from America’s bravest news cameramen and women.

Produced by Australia’s WTFN, the 20 part series captures jaw-dropping accidents, and outrageous moments of life after dark in Los Angeles, Houston, San Diego and Chicago.

Each half-hour episode features eight thrilling news items – car pursuits, hit and runs, head-on collisions, out-of-control flooding, animals on the loose, massive blazes, urban shootings, highspeed freeway occurrences, backyard infernos, plane crashes, wild weather.

Each story is retold and dissected through master interviews with a cast of returning on-scene experts – camera journalists, ex-Los Angeles police officers, fire fighters, paramedics, and crime reporters

Jimmy Elkington from distributor Fred Media said, “First on Scene is a fast-paced, absorbing and bingeable series that brilliantly both documents and deconstructs a wide range of impactful moments. WTFN has used its expertise in producing emergency and blue-light programming to craft a hugely exciting show that never fails to put viewers front and centre with the action. These pre-sale commitments are testament to the undeniable appeal that broadcasters and platforms see for their audiences, and we look forward to sharing this series more widely in the international marketplace over the coming months.”

In addition to Nine the series has been pre-sold to TVNZ (New Zealand), ProSieben (Germany), Play Media (formerly SBS, Belgium) and Viaplay (for the Nordics, Baltics, the Netherlands and Poland).