Arlington, VA – February 16, 2021 – This February, the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in Canada is bringing international drama and murder mysteries fans an assortment of new and exciting series from Walter Presents. They include a 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, “Top Dog,”where an unlikely duo — lawyer Emily and ex-con Teddy — find themselves in the middle of a life-threatening conspiracy, and “Inspector Ricciardi,” where a young DCI who has paranormal abilities solves murder cases in Naples, Italy during the 1930s.
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Walter Presents: Witness, Season 2
Premiere Date: February 11, 2022
Episodes: 8
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Language: French with English Subtitles
In Season One Detective Sandra Winckler cracked the case of gravesite body snatching, uncovering the dark mystery connecting these human remains to a retired policeman. Season Two opens with a bus at a standstill, its engine still 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 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: 12
Genre: Drama, Crime
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: 8
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
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 him 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.
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Winner of 83 Primetime Emmys® and 18 Peabody Awards, MASTERPIECE has been essential Sunday night viewing for millions of fans since 1971. Susanne Simpson is the executive producer and Rebecca Eaton is the executive producer-at-large for the series. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust. Produced for PBS by GBH Boston, MASTERPIECE is known for hits such as All Creatures Great and Small, Sherlock, Downton Abbey and Victoria, and beloved classics such as Upstairs Downstairs, Prime Suspect, The Forsyte Saga and Poldark.
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 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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PBS Distribution is a leading distributor of public media content around the world, reaching audiences through multiple platforms and formats. The company, a joint venture of PBS and GBH Boston, operates six streaming channels — PBS Masterpiece (US and CA), 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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