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WOMEN LEAD THE INVESTIGATIONS THIS OCTOBER WITH TWO NEW MASTERPIECE DRAMAS

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WOMEN LEAD THE INVESTIGATIONS THIS OCTOBER WITH TWO NEW MASTERPIECE DRAMAS:

“MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE,” SEASON 2 AND “MAGPIE MURDERS”

STREAMING ON THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL

Three International Programs from Walter Presents:

“St. Maik,” “Dignity,” and “The Good Apprentice” also added to the Channel

Arlington, VA – September 15, 2022 – This October, two new mysteries from MASTERPIECE
arrive on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel. The new season of “Miss Scarlet and The
Duke,” which follows Eliza, played by Kate Phillips (“Peaky Blinders”), as the female private
detective who makes her mark in the male-dominated field during London’s Victorian Era, and
“Magpie Murders,” the adaptation of the New York Times Best-Seller by Anthony Horowitz,
starring Oscar®-nominee Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”, “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris”),
who plays the editor and informal investigator of the mysteriously deceased best-selling
mystery author Alan Conway. Also available to stream on the channel is “St. Maik, Season 2”
the German dramedy that follows petty criminal Maik as he continues to impersonate the local
church’s pastor. Other Walter Presents titles include: “Dignity” and “The Good Apprentice.”
The PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel consists of binge-worthy British and international drama
series and movies from producers like, MASTERPIECE, Walter Presents and other critically acclaimed
producers. The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with an
Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. Every purchase helps support public television for all.
Information about each of the programs is below:

MASTERPIECE: Miss Scarlet and the Duke, Season 2

Season 2 opens a few months after the conclusion of
Season One: Eliza, played by Kate Phillips (Peaky
Blinders, Wolf Hall) has solved her father’s murder, her
relationship with William (the “Duke”), played by Stuart
Martin (Jamestown) continues to slowly simmer, and
she continues to face the challenges of being a female
private detective in male-dominated Victorian London.
Viewers can also catch up on Season 1 which is also
available to stream on the channel.

Streaming Date October 16, 2022

Episodes 6
Genre Crime-Drama, Mystery
Language English

MASTERPIECE: Magpie Murders

A mystery author dies under suspicious
circumstances, with his last book seemingly
unfinished. This leaves two mysteries: What
happened to him? And how does his latest
potboiler end? Oscar®

-nominee Lesley Manville
(The Crown, Phantom Thread) stars as the
author’s editor, Susan Ryeland, who assumes the
role of detective in the case. Meanwhile, Tim
McMullan (Patrick Melrose) plays the fictional
sleuth in the incomplete novel, whose
investigation parallels Susan’s. Based on Anthony
Horowitz’s (Foyle’s War) ingenious bestselling
novel, the six-part series also stars Conleth Hill, Michael Maloney, Alexandros Logothetis, and Claire
Rushbrook. “There is true satisfaction in watching the pieces of Horowitz’s puzzle click into place,”
applauded The Telegraph (London) and The Sunday Times (London) declared, “Yikes, this is excellent.”
Streaming Date October 16, 2022
Episodes 6
Genre Crime-Drama, Mystery
Language English

Walter Presents: St. Maik, Season 2

On the run from the police, trickster Maik Schäfer
exchanges his fake conductor uniform for a real
cassock. Not baptized and anything but innocent,
the Berlin criminal suddenly becomes the Catholic
pastor of the Apostle Church Läuterberg.
But he and his partner Kevin are still trying to
execute their getaway and they need a new plan
to raise enough money to finance their dream of
running a bar on a beach in Panama. Believing the Catholic Church has the money, Maik and Kevin want
to fraudulently repair the “damaged” roof of the church, however it’s more complicated than they
thought; there’s still a body stashed in the church and Maik has to continue to perform his duties as the
pastor to the lively and demanding needs of his parishioners…
Streaming Date October 21, 2022
Episodes 10

Genre Dramedy
Language German with English

Subtitles

Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in October:

Walter Presents: Dignity – 10/7
Walter Presents: The Good Apprentice – 10/14

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 and movies from around the world.
Follow the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Facebook

About MASTERPIECE
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.
Series funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking Cruises, Raymond James, The MASTERPIECE Trust, and public television
viewers. 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 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.
Follow Walter Presents on Facebook and Twitter on

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, 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.



SEASON TWO OF THE AMSTERDAM-BASED MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! SERIES “VAN DER VALK”

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SEASON TWO OF THE AMSTERDAM-BASED MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! SERIES “VAN DER VALK” STARRING MARC WARREN BEGINS STREAMING ON THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL THIS SEPTEMBER

French TV Series “The Chalet” hailed “…a guilty pleasure” by Vogue

Arlington, VA – August 23, 2022 – Arriving on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel this September are multiple international crime dramas and mysteries, including the second season of “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Van der Valk,” which follows the brilliant but cynical commissaris (inspector), as he solves baffling crimes in Amsterdam; and “Walter Presents: The Chalet” a French suspense thriller that Vogue called “…a guilty pleasure,” following a group of friends vacationing in the French Alps at a remote chalet where dark secrets slowly become revealed. Other titles from Walter Presents include “The Room,” “Truth,” “The Silence of Water,” and “Rosy Abate.”

The PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel consists of binge-worthy TV series and movies from MASTERPIECE, and an array of hit international programs from Walter Presents. The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. Every purchase supports public television for all.

Information about each of the programs is below:
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Van der Valk, Season 2

Premiere Date: September 25, 2022
Episodes: 6
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: English
Marc Warren (The Good Wife) reprises his role as Commissaris Piet Van der Valk in the second season of the Amsterdam-set police drama. Each episode tackles a different crime including the grisly and theatrical murder of a lawyer; pieces of a body delivered to the wealthy heirs of a diamond company; and the death of a cellist from a prestigious orchestra. Van der Valk and his team must uncover the truth of each mysterious murder.

Maimie McCoy (All Creatures Great and Small), Luke Allen-Gale (The Borgias), Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Ready Player One), Darrell D’Silva (Atlanta) and Emma Fielding (Bridgerton) all return to their respective roles.
Walter Presents: The Chalet

Premiere Date: September 23, 2022
Episodes: 6
Genre: Crime-Drama, Mystery
Language: French with English Subtitles
In the small and isolated village of Valmoline in the French Alps, Manu and his pregnant fiancé Adèle are getting married at a remote Chalet where Manu used to vacation in the summer when he was young.

A small bridge is all that connects the Chalet to the outside world. As soon as Manu and his childhood friends attending the wedding cross the bridge, a huge rock falls from a cliff and destroys part of it. Now they are stranded and completely cut off from the world.
Twenty years earlier a family who wanted to start a new life at the Chalet vanished without a trace and history is about to repeat itself.
Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in September:
Walter Presents: The Room – 9/2
Walter Presents: Truth, Season 1 – 9/9
Walter Presents: The Silence of Water, Season 1 – 9/16
Walter Presents: Rosy Abate, Season 1 – 9/30
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 and movies from around the world.

Follow the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Facebook

About MASTERPIECE
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. Series funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking Cruises, Raymond James, The MASTERPIECE Trust, and public television viewers. 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 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.

Follow Walter Presents on Facebook and Twitter

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, 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.



TWO NEW CRIME DRAMAS “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: GRANTCHESTER” AND “WALTER PRESENTS:

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TWO NEW CRIME DRAMAS “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: GRANTCHESTER” AND “WALTER PRESENTS: I KNOW WHO YOU ARE”
STREAMING ON THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL THIS JULY

Arlington, VA – June 20, 2022 – This July, seven new international programs come to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel, including the new season of “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Grantchester,” which follows everyone’s favorite crime-fighting clergyman. In Season 7, vicar Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), and Geordie Keating (Robson Green), his law-enforcement ally, continue to investigate the suspicious murders taking place in their small hamlet of Grantchester. In the Spanish crime drama from Walter Presents, “I Know Who You Are” a prestigious attorney is accused of murdering his missing niece and must work to clear his name. Other programs coming to the channel from Walter Presents include, “Below the Surface, Season 2,” “The Inside Game,” “The Defence, Season 3,” “Stanley,” and “Hunted.”

The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. Every purchase helps support public television for all.

Information about each of the programs is below:
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Grantchester, Season 7

Premiere Date: July 10, 2022
Episodes: 6
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: English
Although Will lives the life of a clergyman, sometimes he can’t help but fall into more worldly habits as he solves murders in the bucolic village of Granchester.

The series picks up in the long hot summer of 1959 with wedding season in full swing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester where once again, Will and Geordie are on alert for suspicious happenings.
Walter Presents: I Know Who You Are

Premiere Date: July 1, 2022
Episodes: 16
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Set in Barcelona, Juan Elias, a prestigious lawyer, suffers amnesia after a terrible car accident and must defend his name after being accused of the death of his missing niece, Ana. With the help of his wife, Judge Alicia Castro, Juan tries to reconstruct what happened that night. Ana’s father, Ramón, is convinced Juan murdered Ana and hires a prestigious law firm to prove Juan’s guilt. Exploring the Spanish legal system, the bonds of love, friendship and family, “I Know Who You Are” will keep viewers guessing to the very end.
Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in July:
Walter Presents: Below the Surface, Season 2 – 7/8
Walter Presents: The Inside Game – 7/15
Walter Presents: The Defence, Season 3 – 7/22
Walter Presents: Stanley – 7/29
Walter Presents: Hunted – 7/29
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.

Follow the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Facebook

About MASTERPIECE
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 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.

Follow Walter Presents on Facebook and Twitter on

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, 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.



AN ALL NEW SEASON OF “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: ENDEAVOUR” AND TWO INTERNATIONAL SERIES

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AN ALL NEW SEASON OF “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: ENDEAVOUR” AND TWO INTERNATIONAL SERIES FROM
WALTER PRESENTS “A MURDER OF CROWS”, SEASON 2, AND “LUISA SPAGNOLI” AMONG SHOWS LAUNCHING ON
THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL THIS JUNE

Arlington, VA – June 6, 2022 – This month, seven new international programs arrive on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel, including the new season of fan-favorite “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Endeavour”. In Season 8, Endeavour begins to show signs of a struggle with his inner demons which worries his colleagues. Then, in the German crime drama from Walter Presents, “A Murder of Crows, Season 2” Inspector Brühl investigates the disappearance of a young boy, and “Walter Presents: Luisa Spagnoli” follows the rise of the Italian businesswoman famous for creating a women’s fashion line and the world-famous chocolate brand, Perugina.

The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. Every purchase helps support public television for all.

Information about each of the programs is below:
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Endeavour, Season 8

Premiere Date: June 19, 2022
Episodes: 3
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Language: English
In 1971, our heroes investigate suspected IRA retaliations, the murder of a local cab driver, and the peculiar killing of a college fellow which results in putting one of their own in imminent danger. As Endeavour shows signs of a struggle with his inner demons, the team wonders if he is beyond the point of no return.

Walter Presents: A Murder of Crows, Season 2

Premiere Date: June 10, 2022
Episodes: 1
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Language: German with English Subtitles
Inspector Martin Brühl must uncover the mysterious truth in the case of a missing four-year-old boy. However, the young woman claiming to be the boy’s mother is said to have a head injury leaving her with a distorted sense of reality and severely delusional. With this new information, the case is filed away. But Inspector Brühl cannot seem to let the investigation go, and as he continues to dig deeper, surprising clues about the boy and the woman begin to emerge.
Walter Presents: Luisa Spagnoli

Premiere Date: June 17, 2022
Episodes: 4
Genre: Drama, Historical
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Filled with romance, success and scandal, “Luisa Spagnoli-Queen of Fashion” follows the true story of the rags to riches life of the world-famous Italian chocolatier and fashion designer who blazed a trail for working women in the early 20th century.

In 1920’s Perugia, Italy, Luisa Spagnoli is a woman of humble origins who, with great determination, decides to take over a small pastry shop on the verge of bankruptcy. Teeming with entrepreneurial spirit and endowed with extraordinary modernity and creativity, she establishes herself as a leading businesswoman and visionary, revolutionizing candy and chocolate from a luxury product of the rich, into one accessible for all.
Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in June:
Walter Presents: The Paris Murders, Season 4 -6/3
Walter Presents: The Wagner Method – 6/10
Walter Presents: The First Forgotten – 6/17
Hotel Portofino – 6/19
Walter Presents: Leo Mattei – Special Unit, Season 1&2 – 6/24

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.

Follow the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel on Facebook

About MASTERPIECE
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 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.

Follow Walter Presents on Facebook and Twitter on

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, 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.



Shaun Evans, Nicola Walker, and Tom Brittney in New Mystery Series Coming to “Masterpiece” on PBS

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Shaun Evans, Nicola Walker, and Tom Brittney in New Mystery Series Coming to “Masterpiece” on PBS
“Endeavour,” “Grantchester,” “Guilt,” “Van der Valk,” “Miss Scarlet and The Duke,” “Magpie Murders,” and “Annika” are all on tap later this year.
[via press release from PBS]
Coming to MASTERPIECE Mystery! in 2022

Wondering when your favorite mystery series are returning to MASTERPIECE in 2022? Crack the case and find out when and how you can watch a whole new season of MASTERPIECE mysteries that range from gritty to cozy, Glasgow to Amsterdam, vicar to skipper, and more. Intrigue, murder, and mayhem await as the bodies pile up, clues are deciphered, and justice is served on MASTERPIECE Mystery!

Endeavour Season 8

Actors Shaun Evans and Roger Allam in Season 8 of Endeavour on PBS MASTERPIECEMurder returns to Oxford as Endeavour returns to MASTERPIECE when the first of three all-new mysteries premieres Sunday, June 19 at 9/8c. In the wake of the harrowing events of Season 7’s finale, our cerebral, solitary hero, Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) is struggling to quiet his demons with drink and solve the most challenging of puzzles through a thick haze of hangovers. Will he crack the cases, fend off bitterness and cynicism, and repair the once-affirming friendship with his former mentor, Fred Thursday? Explore everything you need to know about the new season, watch a Season 8 preview, and watch Season 7 all over again with PBS Passport.

Grantchester Season 7

Robson Green and Tom Brittney in Season 7 of GrantchesterIt’s the long, hot summer of 1959, and questions of what the future holds for our favorite vicar-detective-duo and their friends are complicated when murder returns to the idyllic English village of Grantchester. Secrets and lies, love and death, swing and jazz, and, above all, family and friendship await in six new episodes. Watch the Season 7 trailer right now, and tune in for the Season 7 premiere on Sunday, July 10 at 9/8c! And while you wait, watch Season 6 all over again with PBS Passport.

Guilt Season 2

Mark Bonar stars in Guilt Season 2 on MASTERPIECE on PBSDarkly comic Scottish thriller Guilt will return for a second season to MASTERPIECE, picking up two years after the action of Season 1 with four new episodes full of twists, turns, and deception. Mark Bonnar returns as cocksure, cutthroat lawyer Max; Emun Elliot returns as now-sober detective Kenny; and new cast members include Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey’s Mrs. Hughes) and Sara Vickers (Endeavour’s Joan Thursday) as mother and daughter. We don’t want to spoil Season 1 for those who haven’t seen it – watch for the first time or all over again right now with PBS Passport – but suffice to say that though the show is called Guilt, the vibe is… revenge! Guilt Season 2’s premiere date hasn’t been announced yet, so watch this space. And make sure to check out our roundup of intriguing facts about Mark Bonnar and Guilt and watch the stars explain the show’s quintessentially Scottish dark humor while you wait!

Van der Valk Season 2

Marc Warren in Van der Valk Season 2 on MASTERPIECE on PBSIn three all-new episodes, maverick detective Piet Van der Valk (Marc Warren, Beecham House) and his team return to face high profile cases and gritty murders that immerse them in contemporary Amsterdam’s contrasting worlds, from artists living as squatters to a philosophy-obsessed serial killer; from the city’s dazzling diamond trade to the dysfunction of its ruling family; and from the vibrant world of classical music to the dark heart of sex trafficking. Watch this space to find out when Van der Valk Season 2 premieres on MASTERPIECE, and meanwhile, discover truly surprising facts about the author behind the original Van der Valk book series, and refresh your memory with a rewatch of Season 1 with PBS Passport.

Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 2

Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin in Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 2In Miss Scarlet and The Duke’s six high-octane new episodes, aspiring detective Eliza Scarlet (Kate Phillips, Peaky Blinders) competes for cases, trades jabs, and even partners with her longtime friend/rival, The Duke (Stuart Martin, Jamestown), as their relationship delightfully and maddeningly simmers on. Victorian London’s most delicious detective duo-with-a-twist returns to MASTERPIECE this fall! Until then, get the scoop on the show and Season 2 from the show’s creator, and revisit all of Eliza’s spirited sleuthing so far when you watch Season 1 with PBS Passport.

Magpie Murders
In a fresh, beguiling twist on the traditional murder mystery, with a solution that will both astonish and shock viewers, Magpie Murders – adapted from Anthony Horowitz’ bestselling novel by the author himself – centers on book editor Susan Ryeland and the unfinished mystery manuscript featuring her unpleasant, prima donna author’s longtime detective, Atticus Pünd. When Susan attempts to attain the final chapters, she’s plunged into a shocking mystery case of her own – one which will change her life in ways she’d never expected. Artfully weaving between two interlocking time periods, the 1950s and the present day, Magpie Murders, starring Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, World on Fire) as Susan Ryland and Timothy McMullan (Patrick Melrose, Foyle’s War) as fictional DI Atticus Pünd, is sure to delight even the most hard-boiled mystery fan! See first-look images from the show and watch this space to find out when Magpie Murders will premiere on MASTERPIECE Mystery! this fall.

Annika
Unforgotten’s Nicola Walker has traded in cold cases for maritime murders as DI Annika Strandhed in Annika, a new police procedural with a wry wit. Juggling enigmatic cases while trying to raise her rebellious teenage daughter, the droll and dry-witted skipper of Glasgow’s newly-formed Marine Homicide Unit drops literary references, breaks the fourth wall, and keeps viewers riveted through twists and turns galore. Walker is joined by Jamie Sives (Guilt) as DS Michael McAndrews, Annika’s old colleague; Katie Leung (The Nest, Roadkill) as DC Blair Ferguson, the forensic brains behind the unit; and Ukweli Roach (Grantchester) as DS Tyrone Clarke, the new cop at the station. See the official Annika preview, and watch all 6 episodes of Annika right now with PBS Passport, and on air when MASTERPIECE broadcasts it this fall.



ALL NEW DVD RELEASES FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION THIS NOVEMBER

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ALL NEW DVD RELEASES FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION THIS NOVEMBER
Below is a listing of the upcoming DVD releases from PBS Distribution slated for November.

Every purchase helps support public television for all.
Programs available:
Muhammad Ali: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon – 11/09/21
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Run Time: 480 min. on 4 discs – DVD and Blu-Ray
SRP: $69.99/ $79.99 (Blu- Ray)
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Baptiste, Season 2 – 11/02/2021
Genre: Crime, Drama
Run Time: 355 min. on 2 discs
SRP: $39.99
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Grantchester, Season 6 – 11/30/2021
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Run Time: 400 min. on 3 discs
SRP: $44.99
American Experience: Citizen Hearst – 11/23/2021
Genre: Documentary, History
Run Time: 204 min. on 2 discs
SRP: $24.99
FRONTLINE: America After 9/11 – 11/09/21
Genre: Documentary, History
Run Time: 120 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

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, 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.



THE HUNKY VICAR IS BACK SOLVING MYSTERIES IN AN ALL-NEW SEASON OF “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: GRANTCHESTER”

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THE HUNKY VICAR IS BACK SOLVING MYSTERIES IN AN ALL-NEW SEASON OF “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: GRANTCHESTER”
STREAMING ON THE
PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL THIS OCTOBER
— Others Programs New to the Channel Include:
“MASTERPIECE: Baptiste Season 2,” “Van der Valk Season 3 & 4,” and “Walter Presents: Ladies Paradise” —
Arlington, VA – September 21, 2021 – This October, the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel welcomes the return of “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Grantchester,” with its sixth season, where Reverend Will Davenport, the handsome vicar of Cambridgeshire is put to the test when a challenge places him at odds with his own beliefs. Also returning is the new season of “MASTERPIECE: Baptiste,” which follows detective Julien Baptiste as he delves into Budapest’s corrupt underworld. Then in the original 1970s version of “Van der Valk, Season 3 & 4” the Dutch maverick police officer Piet Van der Valk is promoted to a higher position on the force. Amongst the many international Walter Presents programs that will be streaming on the channel is “Ladies Paradise,” an Italian period drama following a young country girl who moves to a bustling city.

The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. Every purchase helps support public television for all.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Grantchester, Season 6

Premiere Date: October 17, 2021
Episodes: 6
Genre: Dramedy, Crime
Language: English
It’s 1958 and trouble is brewing in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) relishes his role as a firebrand vicar, willing to rock the boat and challenge conventions to help people. But the very role he loves puts him at odds with his own ideals when his kind-hearted curate, Leonard Finch (Al Weaver) is caught up in a scandal. Will’s best friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green), finds his principles shaken, housekeeper Mrs. Chapman (Tessa Peake-Jones) is distraught, and Geordie’s wife Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) is defiant. With new crimes around every corner, and morality and legality at loggerheads, it’s going to take all of Will’s skill and empathy to navigate these choppy waters and help the ones he loves.

MASTERPIECE: Baptiste, Season 2

Premiere Date: October 3, 2021
Episodes: 8
Genre: Drama, Crime
Language: English
Detective Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) delves into Budapest’s corrupt underworld to find a British ambassador’s family who goes missing on a skiing holiday in the Hungarian mountains. Ambassador Emma Chambers (Fiona Shaw, Killing Eve, Harry Potter) is thrust into the crosshairs of Baptiste’s most complex case to date, as the detective navigates an untrustworthy Hungarian police force and international media interest as he hunts for her husband and two sons.
Van der Valk, Season 3 & 4

Premiere Date: October 8, 2021
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 7
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Language: English
Based on the Nicolas Freeling novels, Barry Foster stars as Piet Van der Valk, a maverick Dutch policeman originally brought to life in the 1970s. Van der Valk may be older and wiser, but he has a zest for life and an unorthodox approach to investigating crime. In Season 3, Van der Valk has risen to be commander of the CID Division, but he is determined to be more directly operational than his rank requires, much to the consternation of his superior officer. As much as a maverick as ever, Van der Valk brings his own unorthodox and individual style to every investigation. In Season 4, Commander Piet Van der Valk brings his dogged persistence to three cases that reach all levels of Amsterdam’s society and government, in his quest to bring blackmailers, murderers, drug dealers, kidnappers and more to justice.
Walter Presents: Ladies Paradise

Premiere Date: October 8, 2021
Episodes: 10
Genre: Period Drama
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Based on the Emile Zola novel that inspired the hit series The Paradise, set in the 1950s, the program follows Teresa Iorio, a young woman who leaves her rural Sicilian hometown for Milan. Teresa find works – and much more – at a newly opened department store: The Ladies’ Paradise.

Other titles coming to the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel in October:

Wide Sargasso Seas
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Season 1 & 2
What to Do When Someone Dies
Walter Presents: The Ranger
Pie in the Sky, Seasons 2 – 5
Suspects, Seasons 1 – 5
Walter Presents: Amsterdam Undercover
Walter Presents: A Murder of Crows

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’.

About MASTERPIECE
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 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 with over 250 hours of content on their VOD service and also launched Walter Presents in 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 Presents partnered with Australia’s largest subscription streaming service, Stan.

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, 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.



MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: GUILT HEADLINES DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION

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MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: GUILT HEADLINES DVD/BLU-RAY RELEASES FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION
THIS SEPTEMBER
Below is a listing of the upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray releases from PBS Distribution slated for September.

Every purchase helps support public television for all.

Programs available:
Masterpiece Mystery!: Guilt – 9/14/21
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Run Time: 230 min. on 2 discs – DVD
SRP: $34.99
Frankie Drake Mysteries, Season 4 – 9/7/21
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Run Time: 600 min. on 3 discs – DVD
SRP: $49.99
Exhumed: A History of Zombies – 9/14/21
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 57 min. on 1 disc – DVD
SRP: $24.99
Downing of a Flag– 9/7/21
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 110 min. on 1 disc – DVD
SRP: $24.99
Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths and Secrets, Volume 2 – 9/14/21
Genre: Documentary, History
Run Time: 162 min. on 1 disc – DVD
SRP: $24.99
The Mysteries of Mental Illness – 9/28/21
Genre: Documentary, Science
Run Time: 215 min. on 2 discs – DVD
SRP: $29.99
Discovering Your Warrior Spirit with D.J. Vanas – 9/14/21
Genre: Self-Help
Run Time: 58 min. on 1 disc – DVD
SRP: $24.99

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, 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.



“PROFESSOR T” AND “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: UNFORGOTTEN, SEASON 4” HEADLINE DVD RELEASES

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“PROFESSOR T” AND “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: UNFORGOTTEN, SEASON 4” HEADLINE DVD RELEASES FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION
THIS JULY
Below is a listing of the upcoming DVD releases from PBS Distribution slated for July.

Every purchase helps support public television for all

Programs available:
Professor T – 7/27/21
Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller
Run Time: 275 min. on 2 discs
SRP: $39.99

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Unforgotten, Season 4 – 7/27/21
Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller
Run Time: 270 min. on 2 discs
SRP: $34.99

Finding Your Roots, Season 7 – 7/27/21
Genre: Docuseries
Run Time: 520 min. on 3 discs
SRP: $39.99

American Experience: Billy Graham – 7/20/21
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 112 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

NOVA: Picture a Scientist – 7/6/21
Genre: Science
Run Time: 90 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

NATURE: Sharks of Hawaii – 7/6/21
Genre: Nature
Run Time: 53 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten – 7/13/21
Genre: Documentary, History
Run Time: 84 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

Frontline: The Virus that Shook the World – 7/13/21
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 180 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

Journey into Buddhism – 7/13/21
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 255 min. on 3 discs
SRP: $39.99

NOVA: Reef Rescue – 7/20/21
Genre: Science, Nature
Run Time: 54 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

Inside the Met – 7/20/21
Genre: Docuseries
Run Time: 180 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

NOVA: Fighting for Fertility – 7/20/21
Genre: Science
Run Time: 54 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

Great Performances: Broadway Musicals – A Jewish Legacy – 7/20/21
Genre: Documentary, Music
Run Time: 85 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

NOVA: Hindenburg – The New Evidence – 7/27/21
Genre: History, Science
Run Time: 54 min. on 1 disc
SRP: $24.99

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, 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.



Streaming This July on the Masterpiece Prime Video Channel

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Streaming This July on the Masterpiece Prime Video Channel: “Professor T” Starring “Bridgerton’s” Ben Miller and the All New Season of the Award-Winning Crime-Thriller “Unforgotten”
Look for both seasons to launch on Sunday, July 11.
[via press release from PBS]
STREAMING THIS JULY ON THE MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL: “PROFESSOR T” STARRING “BRIDGERTON’S” BEN MILLER AND THE ALL NEW SEASON OF THE AWARD-WINNING CRIME-THRILLER “UNFORGOTTEN”

— Five New International Walter Presents Titles Also Available —

Arlington, VA – June 17, 2021 – This July, the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel has something for everyone including “Professor T,” based on the hit Belgian series of the same name, starring Ben Miller (Bridgerton, Game of Thrones) and the fourth season of the BAFTA award-winning series “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Unforgotten.” In “Professor T,” Jasper Tempest, a professor at Cambridge teaching the science of crime, lives a precisely calibrated and rigidly structured life, that is, until a former student, and current detective for the local police, convinces him to help her solve their most difficult cases. Then in “Unforgotten” DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan return as they investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. The new Walter Presents International series streaming on the channel in July are: “The Same Sky,” “The Last Wave,” “The Half Brother,” “Love, Inevitably,” and “Under Suspicion, Season 2.”

The subscription rate for the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel is $5.99/month with an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription. Every purchase helps support public television for all.

Professor T

Premiere Date: July 11, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller

Language: English

The impeccably dressed meticulously punctual Professor T, lectures daily at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, teaching students imaginatively, if pedantically, about the science of crime. And each evening, he returns home to his apartment, which is as sterile and systematically organized as a science lab. Thanks to this strictly regimented approach, his OCD and germaphobia are under control.

But his buttoned-up world is slowly undone when he is persuaded by one of his former students, Detective Sergeant Lisa Donckers, to assist her in investigating a serial rapist. The Professor’s encyclopedic knowledge of criminal psychology and his brilliant mind prove invaluable to the team, but the cracks in his carefully constructed, emotionless exterior begin to show.

Working with the police – and the fiery, instinctive Lisa, in particular – drags Professor T far from his comfort zone and even forces him to confront his suppressed feelings for an old flame. He also finds it increasingly difficult to escape the influence of his imperious mother (Frances de la Tour), with whom he shares a harrowing family secret that has cast a long shadow over both their lives.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Unforgotten, Season 4

Premiere Date: July 11, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller

Language: English

In the most dramatic season yet, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force.

A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, with his features frozen in time. Four suspects emerge, all of them having links to the law and having attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then, their lives have gone in very different directions. Some have thrived and others have faltered. But exactly who is fighting for justice? Can the police force ever really be trusted? And will Cassie and Sunny find themselves on the wrong side of the law?

Walter Presents: The Same Sky

Premiere Date: July 2, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller

Language: German with English Subtitles

It’s East Germany in the spring of 1974, and Lars Weber, an East German Intelligence agent, is being relocated to West Berlin, tasked with seducing and spying on women who work in government or defense institutions for other countries. Lars is a young talent only just emerging from his espionage training program when he is assigned the case of Lauren Faber (Sophia Helin, MASTERPIECE: Atlantic Crossing), a data analyst for the British Secret Service at the Devil’s Mountain listening station. Under the strict, sceptical and somewhat twisted guidance of his handler Ralf Müller, Lars quickly proves his talent, making his first steps into Lauren’s wary and formerly closed-off psyche. When Lauren ends up in intensive care, Lars is given a new target: Sabine Cutter, Lauren’s U.S. counterpart at the listening station, who proves a much tougher target. Will he be able to fulfil his mission or will his growing feelings for Sabine lead to an evening that will forever change their lives?

Walter Presents: The Last Wave

Premiere Date: July 16, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Language: French with English Subtitles

One day in Brizan, a quiet seaside resort in the region of Landes in southwestern France, everything changes with the arrival of a wave. When a surge of clouds and a supersized wave collide during a surfing competition it engulfs the participants, causing them to disappear. Five hours later, the surfers reappear unharmed, but with no recollection of what happened to them. One by one, the returning surfers discover they each possess inexplicable powers.

The wave throws the small town into disarray which causes them to face a nightmare that is much bigger than them. This is a thriller of humanity versus nature and not everyone will survive.

Walter Presents: The Half Brother

Premiere Date: July 23, 2021

Episodes: 8

Genre: Drama

Language: Norwegian with English Subtitles

Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Lars Saabye, this award-winning series follows the life of a family spanning five generations in 20th century Europe focusing on the half-brothers Barnum and Fred. On V Day, May 1945, as the continent emerges from war, Barnum’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half-brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, and Fred searching for his – the half-brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still coming down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half-brothers may once again be reunited.

Walter Presents: Love, Inevitably

Premiere Date: July 25, 2021

Episodes: 10

Genre: Rom-Com

Language: Spanish & Italian, with English Subtitles

“Love, Inevitably” is about an incredible and sudden love, made up of reality and imagination. It is the story of Candela and Massimo, a dancer from Seville and an entrepreneur from Rome, two complete opposites, but two destined to meet. It all starts in Prague, where Candela and Massimo meet by chance. It is hate at first sight, and yet they can’t stay away from each other. Once back in their home countries, they appear in each other’s thoughts and visions. From that moment on they will have to put up with paranormal phenomena that happen at the most inopportune moments, demanding their attention and manipulating their choices. In an effort to set these spirits and their souls at ease, they will attempt to make their love a palpable reality.

In addition to the above, the other title that will be streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel this July is listed below:

Walter Presents: Under Suspicion, Season 2

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’.

About MASTERPIECE

Winner of 83 Primetime Emmys(R) 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 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 with over 250 hours of content on their VOD service and also launched Walter Presents in 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 Presents partnered with Australia’s largest subscription streaming service, Stan.

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, 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. Follow PBS Distribution on Facebook and Twitter.