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Establishing a large sample of post common envelope binaries (PCEBs) thatconsist of a white dwarf plus an intermediate mass companion star of spectraltype AFGK, offers the potential to provide new constraints on theoreticalmodels of white dwarf binary formation and evolution. Here we present adetailed analysis of two new systems, TYC 110-755-1 and TYC 3858-1215-1. Basedon radial velocity measurements we find the orbital periods of the two systemsto be $\sim$ 0.85 and $\sim$ 1.64 days, respectively. In addition, HSTspectroscopy of TYC 110-755-1 allowed us to measure the mass of the white dwarfin this system (0.78 M$_\odot$). We furthermore analysed TESS high timeresolution photometry and find both secondary stars to be magneticallyextremely active. Differences in the photometric and spectroscopic periods ofTYC 110-755-1 indicate that the secondary in this system is differentiallyrotating. Finally, studying the past and future evolution of both systems, weconclude that the common envelope efficiency is likely similar in close whitedwarf plus AFGK binaries and PCEBs with M-dwarf companions and find a widerange of possible evolutionary histories for both systems. While TYC3858-1215-1 will run into dynamically unstable mass transfer that will causethe two stars to merge and evolve into a single white dwarf, TYC 110-755-1 is aprogenitor of a cataclysmic variable system with an evolved donor star.

The White Dwarf Binary Pathways Survey VI: two close post common envelope binaries with TESS light curves