Arlington, VA – October 20, 2021 – Streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in Canada this November are a number of drama and mystery programs sure to entertain and thrill fans. Included in the mix is the all-new Australian drama series “RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service,” a gripping series that takes place in Australia’s red heart, where the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent as the heart-stopping emergencies they respond to. Amongst the many international Walter Presents programs that will be streaming on the channel is “The Defence, Season 2,” a Polish crime-thriller following an ambitious lawyer who works adamantly to prove her clients innocence. And finally, the drama-mystery “The Making of a Lady,” starring Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous), follows a penniless girl who, while working as a lady’s companion, slowly comes under the control of a kind and glamorous couple staying at the estate where she is working.
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RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service
Premiere Date: November 11, 2021
Episodes: 8
Genre: Drama
Language: Danish
Based on remarkable real-life stories and filmed on location in and around Broken Hill, this series captures the beauty and brutality of Australia’s vast center where doctors, nurses, pilots and support staff of the RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) negotiate the unique challenges of emergency retrievals across some of the most inhospitable places in the country. The series opens with a doctor escaping her past and joining the Royal Flying Doctor Service on a day in which a catastrophic emergency retrieval hits the team personally. Together they will deal with the fallout, while continuing their highly skilled work, fighting the clock and the elements to save people having the worst day of their lives. The question is, at what cost?
Walter Presents: The Defence, Season 2
Streaming Date: November 19, 2021
Episodes: 6
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Language: Polish with English Subtitles
The Polish series adapted from the renowned crime-thriller novel by Remigiusz Mróz, returns for a second season. “The Defence” follows the well-regarded, courageous and rebellious lawyer Joanna Chyłka as she fights for her clients till the bitter end. Season two sees Chyłka go head-to-head with murderers, gangsters, the police and even her own law firm.
After a double murder, Chyłka is assigned to defend the son of a well-known businessman, however he refuses to say a word… to anyone. How will Chyłka prove her client’s innocence if he won’t tell his side of the story?
The Making of a Lady
Streaming Date: November 5, 2021
Episodes: 1
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Language: English
Based on the novel by celebrated writer Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden), this is the story of the educated but penniless Emily (Lydia Wilson, South Riding). During her duties as a lady’s companion for Lady Maria (Joanna Lumley, Absolutely Fabulous), she meets her employer’s wealthy widower nephew, Lord James Walderhurst (Linus Roache, The Wings of the Dove). Accepting his practical if unromantic marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst’s nephew Alec Osborn (James D’Arcy) and his glamorous wife, Hester (Hasina Haque), after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns in an isolated country estate, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life. Will Walderhurst return in time to save her?
Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in Canada in November:
Sinking of the Laconia
Pie in the Sky Seasons 2-5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Season 1-2
Walter Presents: A Different View
Walter Presents: Madame K
Walter Presents: Sisters 1968 Walter Presents: The Empress
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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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