— The Walter Presents Programs Include “Astrid,” “Tunnel of Dreams,” “Our Miracle Years” and “Nina” —
Arlington, VA – July 13, 2021 – This August, “Endeavour, Season 7” from MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!, along with four international programs from Walter Presents, will be streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in Canada. In Season 7 of Endeavour, the year 1970 commences along with the discovery of a dead body at the canal towpath on New Year’s Eve. With the only clue in the investigation being a witness who heard whistling on the night of the crime, the team has their work cut out to uncover their culprit. Among the Walter Presents programs arriving on the channel is a French crime drama and 2 period dramas taking place during the 1920s through the 1950s. The series’ include “Astrid,” “Tunnel of Dreams,” “Our Miracle Years,” and “Nina.”
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MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Endeavour, Season 7
Streaming Date: August 23, 2021
Episodes: 3
Genre: Drama, Crime-Mystery
Language: English
In Season 7, Endeavour and his colleagues enter a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year’s Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark: old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom. Amidst the dawn of women’s liberation, social progression and scientific growth, the 1970s begin for Oxford’s finest with the discovery of a body at the canal towpath on New Year’s Day. With the only clue in the investigation a witness who heard whistling on the night of the crime, the team has their work cut out to uncover their culprit.
Walter Presents: Astrid
Streaming Date: August 6, 2021
Episodes: 9
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: French with English Subtitles
Astrid Nielsen works as an archivist in the criminal records library of the judicial police. Astrid has Asperger’s syndrome, and an incredible memory for information. The district commander, having noticed this unique ability, decides to utilize Astrid and her photographic memory by involving her in ongoing cases. She’s entrusted with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved. As they work to solve the cases, Astrid helps the commander using her incredible memory, and in return, the district commander inadvertently ends up helping Astrid with her social skills.
Walter Presents: Tunnel of Dreams
Streaming Date: August 20, 2021
Episodes: 2
Genre: Period Drama
Language: Swish and German with English Subtitles
In 1873 men from all over Europe flock to the tiny village of Goschenen in Switzerland to work on the biggest and most spectacular construction site of modern times, the tunnel through Gotthard. “Tunnel of Dreams” follows the lives of three young people in the years of rapid industrial expansion: the German engineer, Max, the innkeeper’s daughter Anna, and the hot-headed Italian, Tommaso. In the bustle and confusion of the expanding city and the building of the tunnel, the three young people forge a friendship that defies the differences of social class and tackles internal and external dramas; including the growing tension between Tommaso, who becomes the spokesman of the miners, and Max, who struggles to be loyal to his employer and his friends.
Walter Presents: Our Miracle Years
Streaming Date: August 27, 2021
Episodes: 6
Genre: Period Drama
Language: German with English Subtitles
Germany, June 20, 1948. In Altena, a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia, long queues are forming at the local bank, as they are all over the country. With the introduction of the new currency, every citizen, whether rich or poor, old or young, resistance fighter or former Nazi, has the opportunity to start anew. Whoever lines up at the exchange point gets 40 freshly printed D-Marks and can decide for themselves what he or she does with them.
In the line, are Christel and Eduard Wolf, the metal manufacturer couple, their three daughters Ulla, Gundel and Margot and their friends Jurgen, Benno and Tommy. Also in line is the businessman Walter Bocker. Behind them lies an appalling war and the ballast of the past. Ahead of them lies the start of a new era. The paths of the friends’ lives lead them to different cities across the country, including Dusseldorf, Tubingen and East Berlin. They celebrate success, fight for recognition, see their dreams fail and find or lose great love. “Our Miracle Years” is a stirring social panorama of the Wirtschaftswunder, the German Economic Miracle of the 1940s and ‘50s.
In addition to the above, the other title that will be streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in Canada
this August is listed below:
Walter Presents: Nina
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Walter Presents launched January 2016 in the U.K. as a video-on-demand service, founded by Jason Thorp, Walter Iuzzolino and Jo McGrath. Dedicated to showcasing award winning foreign language drama, the service is named after its curator, Walter Iuzzolino, a passionate drama fan. In March 2017, Walter Presentslaunched as an SVOD platform in the U.S., with the New York Times hailing it as a “chic TV boutique with a foreign accent.” Walter Presentslaunched in Italy September 2018, its first roll-out in mainland Europe, on Discovery’s Nove, Giallo and Dplay channels. In October 2018 Walter Presentspartnered with PBS Distribution in the US, to make premium foreign language drama available on PBS Masterpiece on the Amazon Prime Video channel. Additionally, select top-tier titles chosen by PBS are also broadcast on PBS stations and streaming on PBS Passport, a digital member benefit available through local stations. In February 2019 Walter Presents increased its US distribution further launching on Comcast Xfinity X1 and later in June Walter Presentslaunched on the Roku Channel. In 2019 Walter Presents teamed up with Medialaan to make the service available to Flemish audiences on their newly launched digital channel StreamZ, and also joined forces with S4C to make its dramas available in Welsh. In 2020 we partnered with TVNZ with over 250 hours of content on their VOD service and also launched Walter Presentsin Russia exclusively on Start, Russia’s fastest growing SVOD platform, providing 400 hours of hit international drama as well as launching with PBS Masterpiece in Canada. This year Walter Presentspartnered with Australia’s largest subscription streaming service, Stan.
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