Arlington, VA – February 11, 2022 – This February, the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is bringing fans of murder mysteries and drama an assortment of new and exciting programs, including the second season of the thrilling series “COBRA” which follows cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, as well as the impact of fake news on democracy. Also coming to the channel are new programs from Walter Presents including the new season of “Witnesses,” where detective Sandra Winckler returns as lead on a case that requires her to delve into her partner’s mysterious past. In “Top Dog, an unlikely duo –lawyer Emily and ex-con Teddy — find themselves in the middle of a life-threatening conspiracy. And in “Inspector Ricciardi,” a young DCI with paranormal abilities, investigates crimes in Naples, Italy during the 1930s.
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COBRA, Season 2
Streaming Date: February 20, 2022
Episodes: 6
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Language: English
In the aftermath of both a solar and political storm, Prime Minister Robert Sutherland, assisted by his Chief of Staff Anna Marshall and a team of advisers, tries to steer the country on a more even course. However, an assassination leads to a chain of events that could develop into a crisis. This situation will be even more dire than the one the country has recently emerged from when an invisible global enemy appears to be bent on their destruction.
Walter Presents: Witness, Season 2
Streaming Date: February 11, 2022
Episodes: 8
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Language: French with English Subtitles
In Season One of “Witnesses”, Detective Sandra Winckler cracked the case of gravesite body snatching, uncovering the dark mystery that connected these human remains to a retired policeman. Season Two opens with a bus at a standstill, its engine running on a country road. Inside, 15 male passengers, are dead and frozen. The investigation promises to be long and complicated for Winckler and the Lille PJ team. Nothing links the victims together, except that they are all dressed to go to a wedding…or possibly a funeral. The interrogations of the victims’ families reveal a disturbing detail: each of their cell phones had the number of Catherine Keemer, a photographer who has been missing for 3 years.
Walter Presents: Top Dog
Streaming Date: February 18, 2022
Episodes: 8
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Language: Swedish with English Subtitles
A mysterious disappearance causes two separate worlds to collide, creating an extremely odd couple; a lawyer – Emily, and the recently released convict –Teddy. They have two opposing desires; she wants up and he wants out. She wants to secure her future and he wants to leave his old life behind. They are both forced to rethink what they want after they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy. When their complicated pasts catch up with them, their dreams for the future are destroyed and they discover nothing is what it seems.
Walter Presents: Inspector Ricciardi
Streaming Date: February 25, 2022
Episodes: 12
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Naples, 1932. Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi is a Mobile Commissioner obsessed with capturing murderers. The man, endowed with extraordinary intuition, carries within himself a terrible secret: he sees the ghosts of people who have died violently and hears their last thought. Young DCI Ricciardi never laughs but his loneliness will be tested when he encounters two women, a young modest girl, and a beautiful rich widow, both different but equally fascinating.
Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in February:
Walter Presents: Moscow Noir
About PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel
MASTERPIECE has been setting the standard for exceptional British drama in the US for 50 years and the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel continues this legacy and has expanded to include award-winning TV series from around the world – all carefully curated for ‘viewers like you’.
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About WALTER PRESENTS
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 Presents launched 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 Presents launched in Italy September 2018, its first roll-out in mainland Europe, on Discovery’s Nove, Giallo and Dplay channels. In October 2018 Walter Presents partnered 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 Presents launched 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 on their VOD service, launched Walter Presents in Russia exclusively on Start, Russia’s fastest growing SVOD platform, and launched our channel on PBS Masterpiece in Canada. In 2021 Walter Presents partnered with Australia’s largest streaming service, Stan, and launched in Latin America with market leader DMD’s streaming service Cindie. From 2022 we will be available on C More in Scandinavia with over 500 hours of content.
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About PBS DISTRIBUTION
PBS Distribution is a leading distributor of public media content around the world, reaching audiences through multiple platforms and formats. The company operates five streaming channels —PBS MASTERPIECE, PBS KIDS, PBS LIVING, PBS DOCUMENTARIES, and PBS America (U.K.). Other services include transactional video-on-demand, subscription video-on-demand licensing, physical products on DVD and Blu-ray, theatrical releasing, educational, non-theatrical, inflight, and international program sales and co-productions.
PBS Distribution offers consumers and educators the highest quality factual, scripted, and children’s programming including films from Ken Burns, hit series from MASTERPIECE and foreign language dramas from Walter Presents, entertaining and educational PBS KIDS series, and award-winning documentaries from NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN MASTERS, NATURE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and many independent producers. For over 10 years, the company has extended the reach of programming beyond broadcast while generating revenue for the public television system, stations, and producers.
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