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MotorTrend Group’s Robust Cross-Platform 2022-23 Programming Slate

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MotorTrend Group’s Robust Cross-Platform 2022-23 Programming Slate Energizes and Strengthens Fans’ Connection to the Motoring World
Introducing, inspiring and intensifying viewers’ connection to car culture, MotorTrend’s programming slate features new series with expert hosts and personalities, 14 returning powerhouse series and more than 215 live hours simulcast on MotorTrend TV and MotorTrend+.
[via press release from MotorTrend]
MotorTrend Group’s Robust Cross-Platform 2022-23 Programming Slate Energizes and Strengthens Fans’ Connection to the Motoring World

-500+ Hours of The Biggest Returning Hit Shows, All-New Series and Talent, and Live Automotive Events and Motorsports Including the 24 HOURS OF LE MANS Power MotorTrend’s Streaming and Linear TV Lineup-

Live events, proven hits and brand new series power the most exciting stories in car culture as MotorTrend Group, a Warner Bros. Discovery company, today announced its robust 2022-23 programming lineup for MotorTrend+ and MotorTrend TV, the leading subscription streaming service and #1 linear network, respectively, dedicated entirely to the motoring world. Introducing, inspiring and intensifying viewers’ connection to car culture, MotorTrend’s programming slate features new series with expert hosts and personalities, 14 returning powerhouse series and more than 215 live hours simulcast on MotorTrend TV and MotorTrend+.

“We know cars bring people joy. As the iconic, beloved automotive meda brand, viewers turn to MotorTrend to deliver world class storytelling that deepens their emotional connection to vehicles,” said Alex Wellen, Global President and General Manager, MotorTrend Group. “Our ability to be authentic, feature credible experts and still be entertaining and fun is on full display with our new programming lineup on MotorTrend+ and MotorTrend TV. Whether you’re a diehard car fan or someone who just enjoys driving, we invite you to join the joyride with us.”

Reaching nearly eight million unique viewers on MotorTrend TV – with premieres earning 15% gains versus NBCSN telecasts last year – thus far in 2022, MotorTrend’s streaming and TV coverage of MECUM AUCTIONS returns with 160 hours of live coverage from 11 U.S. cities. Additionally, MotorTrend will continue as the exclusive live streaming and TV home, in the U.S. and Canada, for the legendary 24 HOURS OF LE MANS endurance race, plus an additional five FIA World Endurance Championship races with special extended ways to watch on MotorTrend+.

MotorTrend’s most popular fan favorites TEXAS METAL, BITCHIN’ RIDES and IRON RESURRECTION headline a returning slate of series that attract key demos in primetime. Joining those top franchises are MotorTrend Studio originals including: FASTER WITH FINNEGAN; HOT ROD GARAGE; DIRT EVERY DAY; the cult favorite ROADKILL, the most watched series on MotorTrend+; the annual holiday inspired motor madness of HOLIDAY HOOPTIE CHALLENGE; and more.

MotorTrend will introduce and inspire a new generation of automotive fans with compelling all-new original series headlined by a diverse group of talent and vehicles. Transforming classic cars into amazing, sleek hot rods is the dream job for talented, expert mechanic Javier “Shorty” Ponce, formerly of IRON RESURRECTION, and his team. In the new series SHORTY’S DREAM SHOP (wt) they are building and making dreams come true for owners of beloved vehicles at Shorty’s automotive restoration business near Dallas. Next generation restoration genius Derek Bieri and his wife Jessica, known to millions of fans of the popular Vice Grip Garage YouTube channel, is reviving barnyard finds in head turning ways in ROADWORTHY RESCUES (wt). RUNS GOOD (wt) introduces viewers to Dan Brockett, Shea Seefeldt and Aaron Parker, a trio of young builders and racers who revive neglected project cars, from classic American muscle to modern Japanese imports, to race them in high stakes, competitive events like drag races and drift battles.

Programming highlights from MotorTrend’s 2022-23 programming lineup includes:

*WT indicates working title

New Series

SHORTY’S DREAM SHOP (wt)

Everyone knows the American dream isn’t complete without a great ride. Javier “Shorty” Ponce, formerly of the hit MotorTrend series IRON RESURRECTION, and his team of talented mechanics are helping make dreams come true for classic car owners. At his shop outside Dallas they’re transforming their beloved rides into sleek hot rods. One project at a time they’re building the American dream for car fans from their shop near Dallas, Texas in this all-new series.

HOLDEN BROTHERS GARAGE (wt)

Just outside of Boerne, Texas, north of San Antonio, brothers Willie and Stephen Holden bring visions of speed to life. Featuring a wide array of accessible vehicles (new and old alike) and modest budgets for parts and accessories, this new series follows the guys as they combine craftsmanship and ingenuity to transform attainable cars into something awesome.

RUNS GOOD (wt)

RUNS GOOD (wt) is a new series for a new generation of car lovers. Drifters, professional drivers and mechanics Dan Brockett, Shea Seefeldt and Aaron Parker are on a mission in search of redemption for purpose-built project cars. These vehicles have sat unused on cinder blocks in backyards and side yards, but this trio is working hard to save them, and ultimately taking each car to race tracks and events in search of fulfilling the potential the prior owners could never achieve.

ROADWORTHY RESCUES (wt)

Thousands of great American cars are slowly rotting away in hidden places across the country. Most of these vehicles are long forgotten relics that are destined never to drive down another road. Derek Bieri of the popular Vice Grip Garage YouTube channel wants to change that. He has a deep seeded belief that all these vehicles should get a second chance. Follow Derek as he seeks out abandoned cars from America’s past and gets them running and back on the road where they belong.

Live Events

MECUM AUCTIONS

MotorTrend is the exclusive live streaming and television home of Mecum Auctions, the world leader of collector car, vintage and antique motorcycle, and Road Art sales. Throughout the year MotorTrend is broadcasting and streaming more than 160 hours of live coverage across ten MECUM AUCTIONS including Kissimmee, Fla., Glendale, Ariz., Indianapolis, Harrisburg, Pa., Monterey, Calif., Dallas, Chicago, Las Vegas (autos and motorcycles), and Tulsa, Okla.

24 HOURS OF LE MANS

The 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world’s oldest active sports car endurance race. Held annually since 1923, Le Mans is considered one of the most prestigious automobile races in the entire world as the small town of Le Mans, France becomes the center of the car racing universe for 24 hours. MotorTrend is the exclusive home of the race in the U.S. and Canada with all 24 hours available live on MotorTrend TV and MotorTrend+ including bonus feeds, on-board cameras and live timing and scoring on MotorTrend+. MotorTrend is also the live home of five FIA World Endurance Championship races in the U.S. and Canada.

Returning Series & Specials

ALL GIRLS GARAGE

This stalwart MotorTrend series taps into the expertise of Faye Hadley and Bogi Lateiner who work behind the gears at an automotive shop. Together they tackle everything from maintenance and performance upgrades to fabrication and engine swaps. In each episode, they break down complex projects into DIY-friendly steps, while showcasing each woman’s unique expertise in the world of automotive repair and service.

BITCHIN’ RIDES

Entering season nine BITCHIN’ RIDES is one of MotorTrend’s most popular series as Dave Kindig, owner and operator of Kindig-It Design, and his team continues turning out one-of-a-kind vehicles for his demanding clientele. Working on all types and periods of cars, viewers see the vehicles rendered, designed, built and restored from the ground up.

CAR FIX

Step inside the ultimate “how-to” series featuring the talents of award-winning builders Brian Fuller and Jeremy Bumpus. In CAR FIX this dynamic duo showcases special hands-on automotive projects including modifications, upgrades and repairs using high-end performance and aftermarket products that car junkies can’t wait to get their hands on.

DIRT EVERY DAY

Hosts Fred Williams and David Chappelle share off-roading know-how, tech upgrades and road trip adventures in the wildest trucks, Jeeps, buggies and go-anywhere machinery. Whether racing or rock crawling, mud bogging or overland camping – get ready to hit the dirt! Can these trucks and various vehicles survive the extreme off-road adventures, overlanding face offs and challenges our guys come up with? Join the guys for all the dirt, mud, giant wheels and wacky surprises this season as they continue pushing themselves to the limit.

ENGINE MASTERS

Join David Freiburger, Steve Dulcich and Steve Brulé of Westech Performance as they put aftermarket performance engine parts to the test on the dyno. From finding the peak performance capabilities of street focused parts to busting long-believed engine fallacies, this team of ENGINE MASTERS evaluate and explain why performance gains work on the most sought-after powertrain combinations.

FASTER WITH FINNEGAN

Do you think you can make your junk go faster in one weekend with a little extra cash? Mike Finnegan, along with Mike Cotten and David Newbern, think it’s possible and they’re going to show you how in the fan favorite series FASTER WITH FINNEGAN. Follow along as they live the ROADKILL life and dive into the ideology, technology and duct tape-ology it takes to build a better beater in a matter of hours without breaking the bank.

FOUR WHEELER

If it has wheels and goes off road, Ian Johnson will work on it. He does everything, from upgrading your daily driving Jeep to building a custom tube-chassis rock crawler. In each episode of FOUR WHEELER, Ian takes viewers along for the do-it-yourself ride as he tackles everything from simple bolt-ons to full on fabrication.

HOLIDAY HOOPTIE CHALLENGE

Your favorite MotorTrend hosts test their endurance and skills in this unique holiday inspired tradition of motor madness. The annual HOLIDAY HOOPTIE CHALLENGE special brings joy and cheer to car fans everywhere as MotorTrend hosts compete in a spectacular display of driving challenges in some of the most questionable hoopties this side of The North Pole.

HOT ROD GARAGE

Longtime co-host and mechanic Lucky Costa welcomes new co-host, racer Alex Taylor, to the HOT ROD GARAGE floor for good times and fast time slips as they finish some current projects, and add some entirely new flavors to the fleet. There will be dragstrips and drifting, road and rally courses torn up by cars from America’s, Japan’s and even Sweden’s rowdiest automakers.

IRON RESURRECTION

No matter the type – busted bikes or rusted out roadsters – every vehicle deserves a second chance to shine. Outside Austin, Texas mechanical master Joe Martin, his wife Amanda, his best friend Jayson “Shag” Arrington and their team at Martin Bros Customs are breathing life back into vehicles of all kinds, shapes and sizes in the hit series IRON RESURRECTION.

ROADKILL

Hold onto your lug nuts! Ride along with David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan on the fan favorite series ROADKILL as the dynamic duo go in search of their next low-buck gearhead adventure in all types of gassers, “barely-legal” street machines and highly strung performance vehicles.

ROADKILL GARAGE

ROADKILL GARAGE is the series where David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich show viewers how to do the wrong thing the right way. Whether the guys are wrenching on project cars from the ROADKILL series or creating their own moving violations, you’ll always get info and action on ROADKILL GARAGE.

TEXAS METAL

With dozens of awards on their walls, crowds of adoring fans, and a several months long waitlist, the team at Ekstensive Metal Works in Houston always has their hands full with rowdy customers, challenging builds and tight timelines. They average 25 to 30 builds a month, working on everything from muscle cars to monster trucks. They specialize in one-of-a-kind custom builds because they are at their best when they are pushing the envelope and that’s exactly what their clients expect.

MotorTrend+ is the leading subscription streaming service dedicated entirely to the motoring world, offering more than 8,100 episodes of world-leading automotive series and specials including: the all-new TOP GEAR AMERICA; the Emmy Award-winning docuseries NASCAR 2020: UNDER PRESSURE; the hit series KEVIN HART’S MUSCLE CAR CREW and MOTOR MYTHBUSTERS; the streaming home for live coverage of MECUM AUCTIONS; plus every season of ROADKILL, TEXAS METAL, IRON RESURRECTION, WHEELER DEALERS, BITCHIN’ RIDES, FASTER WITH FINNEGAN and many more.

Source: Nielsen, L7, 6-min qual, MT 1/10-4/3/22 vs NBCSn 1/11-4/4/21

About MotorTrend Group

MotorTrend Group, a Warner Bros. Discovery company, is the largest automotive media company in the world, bringing together Warner Bros. Discovery’s MotorTrend TV and a vast automotive digital, direct-to-consumer, social, and live event portfolio, including MOTOR TREND, HOT ROD, ROADKILL, AUTOMOBILE and more than 20 other industry-leading brands. With a monthly audience of 26 million across web, TV and print, and 110 million social followers, culminating in 1.3 billion monthly impressions across all platforms, MotorTrend Group encompasses television’s #1 network for automotive fans, a leading automotive YouTube Channel and MotorTrend+, the only subscription streaming service dedicated entirely to the motoring world. MotorTrend Group serves to embrace, entertain and empower the motoring world.

About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HBO Max, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.



MotorTrend’s Most Watched Series “Roadkill” Returns for Season 10 on the MotorTrend App

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MotorTrend’s Most Watched Series “Roadkill” Returns for Season 10 on the MotorTrend App
Since debuting on YouTube in 2011, the series has amassed tens of millions of viewers across MotorTrend’s streaming service and television network.
[via press release from MotorTrend]
MOTORTREND’S MOST WATCHED SERIES “ROADKILL” RETURNS FOR SEASON 10 ON THE MOTORTREND APP

–All-New Season of ROADKILL, Starring David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan Streaming now on the MotorTrend App —

(Los Angeles) -MotorTrend’s most watched streaming series, ROADKILL, is back on the MotorTrend App celebrating its tenth season with hosts David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan bringing even more motorized mayhem to the open road. Since debuting on YouTube in 2011, ROADKILL has amassed tens of millions of viewers across MotorTrend’s streaming service and television network, and spawned a number of hit spin-offs including ROADKILL GARAGE, ROADKILL EXTRA, ENGINE MASTERS, ROADKILL’S JUNKYARD GOLD, 3K HOOPTIE CHALLENGE and FASTER WITH FINNEGAN.

“ROADKILL is unlike any other automotive series out there,” said Mike Suggett, head of programming and development, MotorTrend Group. “Freiburger and Finnegan have built a very loyal following celebrating their glorious failures with complete clunkers. Doing that for nine seasons with the tenth in their sights is completely unique. We can’t wait to see what kind of fun the guys continue having with limited budgets and unlimited creativity.”

Every episode of ROADKILL finds David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan dreaming up outlandish things to do with outrageous cars, taking on overwhelming challenges and continuing their love/hate relationship with hot rods, “barely legal” street machines, and other highly strung performance vehicles. Now in their tenth season, the dynamic duo seek out gearhead adventures by adding more horsepower, delivering more action, and leaving fear by the roadside as they fix some of their favorite classic ROADKILL vehicles and pick up some new additions to add to their fleet, all to ensure that no automotive challenge is too far-fetched.

On the first episode of season 10, “More Doors, Less Floors!” streaming now on the MotorTrend App, Freiburger and Finnegan rediscover the 440-powered 1971 Chrysler Newport 8-door airport car they found back in Season 9. Nothing says winter road trip fun like taking 24 feet of rusted out, floorless junk from Fargo, North Dakota to the warmer climate and dirt tracks of Nebraska! New episodes of ROADKILL premiere monthly on the MotorTrend App through December 2021.

Additionally, the MotorTrend App offers more than 8,000 episodes and more than 3,600 hours of world-leading automotive series and specials including the most complete collection of classic TOP GEAR (200+ episodes and specials spanning seasons one thru 27), the all-new TOP GEAR AMERICA and NASCAR 2020: UNDER PRESSURE, plus every season of SPEED RACER, WHEELER DEALERS, ROADKILL, FAST N’ LOUD, BITCHIN’ RIDES, IRON RESURRECTION, TEXAS METAL and many more. The MotorTrend App is available on media players and streaming devices including Amazon FireTV, Apple TV, Roku, Google Chromecast and on the web, as well as across iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices.

ROADKILL is produced by MotorTrend Studios with Dustin Gould as executive producer. Mike Suggett is head of programming and development and Alex Wellen is global president and general manager for MotorTrend Group.

About MotorTrend Group

MotorTrend Group is the largest automotive media company in the world, bringing together Discovery’s fast-growing MotorTrend TV and a vast automotive digital, direct-to-consumer, social, and live event portfolio, including MOTORTREND, HOT ROD, ROADKILL, AUTOMOBILE, and more than 20 other industry-leading brands. With a monthly audience of 26 million across web, TV, and print, and 110 million social followers, culminating in 1.3 billion monthly impressions across all platforms, the company encompasses television’s #1 network for automotive superfans, a leading automotive YouTube Channel, and the MotorTrend App, the only auto-dedicated subscription video-on-demand service. MotorTrend serves to embrace, entertain, and empower the motoring world.

About Discovery

Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and nearly 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as discovery+, Food Network Kitchen and MotorTrend OnDemand; digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media; a landmark natural history and factual content partnership with the BBC; and a strategic alliance with PGA TOUR to create the international home of golf. Discovery’s portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and the forthcoming multi-platform JV with Chip and Joanna Gaines, Magnolia Network, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.



HUGH LAURIE AND HELEN MCCRORY STAR IN THE NEW POLITICAL THRILLER “ROADKILL”

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HUGH LAURIE AND HELEN MCCRORY STAR IN THE NEW POLITICAL THRILLER “ROADKILL” STREAMING ON THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL
THIS NOVEMBER

Other Thrillers and Dramas Coming to the Channel include
“Under Suspicion,” “The Hunter,” “Berlin Dance School,”
“Prince Philip: The Plot to Make a King,” and “Jekyll and Hyde”
Arlington, VA – October 26, 2020 – This November, six new programs will be streaming on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel including the new MASTERPIECE political thriller starring Hugh Laurie and Helen McCrory, “Roadkill.” “Prince Philip: The Plot to Make a King,” and “Jekyll and Hyde, Season 1” will also be streaming on the channel. In addition, four international programs from Walter Presents including the all new Spanish crime thriller “Under Suspicion,” “The Hunter,” and “Berlin Dance School.”

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 listed below.

MASTERPIECE: Roadkill

Premiere Date: November 1, 2020
Episodes: 4
Genre: Drama
Language: English
The new political thriller “Roadkill” from Academy Award nominee David Hare (The Reader, The Hours) stars Hugh Laurie as Peter Laurence, a self-made forceful and charismatic politician. Peter’s public and private life seem to be falling apart – or rather are being picked apart by his enemies. As his personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda, while others plot to bring him down. However, events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?

Helen McCrory (The Queen, Harry Potter), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Westworld, Inferno) and Millie Brady (The Last Kingdom, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) also star.
Walter Presents: The Hunter, Season 2

Premiere Date: November 6, 2020
Episodes: 8
Genre: Drama/Crime
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
January 1996. After years of waiting, arrests and sleepless nights, anti-mafia prosecutor Saverio is over the moon. Not only has he finally married the love of his life Giada, he’s also closer to catching his most wanted prey: Giovanni Brusca. The brutal head of the Cosa Nostra has held the son of one of his enemies hostage for over two years. Even though the boy is still alive, he’s just a pawn in a sick game of thrones played by the Brusca brothers. When things go wrong during Saverio’s long-planned raid of the Brusca hideout, his life starts falling apart before his eyes. But he is determined: Hunting season is not over yet…
Walter Presents: Under Suspicion

Release Date: November 13, 2020
Episodes: 8
Genre: Drama/Crime-Thriller
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
On the day of her first communion, surrounded by her family, seven-year-old Alicia Vega disappeared without a trace. After two weeks of searching, the police are only sure about one thing: Alicia’s kidnapper is a family member.

Two officers, Laura and Víctor, are chosen to go undercover, in the town where the Vega family lives, as a married couple to uncover who is responsible for the crime. They don’t know each other and are complete opposites. Laura is firm and organized and she always respects the rules. Víctor is impulsive, cheeky and willing to do whatever necessary to discover the truth. As time passes, the case turns out to be more complicated than they expected – the Vega family is a web of secrets complicating the rescue of Alicia.
Walter Presents: Berlin Dance School, Season 2

Release Date: November 27, 2020
Episodes: 3
Genre: Drama
Language: German with English Subtitles
The new season of the “Berlin Dance School”, continues to follow the proprietor of the Galant dance school, Caterina Schollack and her three daughters, Monika, Eva and Helga. Three years have passed and Monika is now a single mother fighting for custody of her daughter Dorli who is living with her aunt Helga and her husband Wolfgang as a way to hide his homosexuality. Meanwhile, the careers of Monika and her dance partner Freddy pick up speed under the stewardship of Caterina’s management. Their sister Eva is also unhappy in her marriage to Professor Fassbender.

Still focusing on the image of women, the program follows the three sisters as they search for their own new identity, while dealing with issues such as emancipation, family structures, and the desire for female self-determination. The story of the Schollack family is exemplary for many women at a time when a woman’s life was often determined by her place next to her husband and defined by clear social expectations.
Prince Philip: The Plot to Make a King

Release Date: November 27, 2020
Episodes: 1
Genre: Drama
Language: English
For the first time this film tells the inside story of the tensions that were unleashed when the Queen fell in love with Prince Philip – tensions that would place huge strain on the royal marriage, and would shape the future of Elizabeth’s reign. Young Philip, it was felt, was “rough, ill-mannered, uneducated and would probably not be faithful,” according to one courtier. The royal and political elite disliked his German roots – and they disliked his larger than life, ferociously ambitious uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten.

This film draws on unpublished memoirs to show how Philip and Mountbatten were maneuvering for a royal marriage as early as the winter of 1939-40, when the Queen was just 13. Philips’s German links were a source of anxiety for Elizabeth’s parents with the Queen’s mother reported to have privately referred to Philip as ‘The Hun.’ The film reveals, for the first time, the complexities and frustrations of the Royal marriage as the Queen struggled to reconcile the love of her husband with the suspicions of her family and her government.
Jekyll and Hyde, Season 1

Release Date: November 30, 2020
Episodes: 10
Genre: Drama
Language: English

It’s 1930s London and Robert Jekyll is a naive, sensitive young man finding his place in the world and moving away from the protection of his loving foster parents. As he begins to feel himself coming under the power of a darkness he cannot control, he realizes that all this time his parents were protecting him from his true self. Jekyll has inherited the curse of his grandfather, and when angered or in danger he undertakes a graphic and twisted transformation to become Hyde, a shadowy, brooding figure of incredible strength and agility; confident and fearless. As he tries to discover his past and search for a cure, Robert Jekyll is drawn deep into Hyde’s world of monstrous creatures and freaks of nature.
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 16 Peabody Awards, MASTERPIECE has been essential Sunday night viewing for millions of fans since 1971. Rebecca Eaton is the Executive Producer-at-Large. Susanne Simpson is the Executive Producer of the series. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust. Presented on PBS by WGBH Boston, MASTERPIECE is known for recent hits such as Sherlock, Downton Abbey and Victoria, and beloved classics such as Upstairs Downtstairs, Prime Suspect, The Forsyte Saga and Poldark.

About WALTER PRESENTS
Walter Presents launched in January 2016 in the U.K. as a video-on-demand service and is a joint venture between Channel 4 and Global Series Network, 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.” In November 2017, Walter Presents launched in Australia through pay TV service Foxtel, and in Italy in September 2018, it launched its first roll-out in mainland Europe on Discovery’s Nove, Giallo and Dplay channels. In October 2018, Walter Presents partnered with PBS Distribution to launch over 300 hours of quality foreign language dram on the MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel. Walter’s Choice is a selection of the Walter Presents programming that is made available for air on PBS stations.

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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.



MotorTrend’s Top Stars Are “Working from Home” in Brand New, Self-Shot Series

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MotorTrend’s Top Stars Are “Working from Home” in Brand New, Self-Shot Series
Ant Anstead, Fred Williams, Faye Hadley and David Freiburger are among the featured participants.

[via press release from MotorTrend]
MOTORTREND’S TOP STARS ARE “WORKING FROM HOME” IN BRAND NEW, SELF-SHOT SERIES
–New Episodes Featuring Ant Anstead, Fred Williams and Faye Hadley Now Streaming on the MotorTrend App–
–Next New Episode Featuring David Freiburger of the Smash Hit Series ROADKILL Premieres Thursday, April 30 on the MotorTrend App–

(Los Angeles) – With so many Americans #HomeTogether, MotorTrend’s top experts are inviting fans into their homes in the all-new, self-shot series MOTORTREND: WORKING FROM HOME. Streaming now on the MotorTrend App, the only subscription streaming service dedicated entirely to the motoring world, MOTORTREND: WORKING FROM HOME features Ant Anstead of WHEELER DEALERS, Faye Hadley of ALL GIRLS GARAGE and Fred Williams of DIRT EVERY DAY picking up personal automotive projects in their home garages. Whether its learning new skills, building a new rig to help around the shop or finally catching up on an idled project car, Anstead, Hadley and Williams roll up their sleeves and get to work on their passion projects… all while filming the work themselves along the way! The newest episode of MOTORTREND WORKING FROM HOME features ROADKILL star David Freiburger and premieres Thursday, April 30 on the MotorTrend App.

“This series is an intimate and humorous inside look at your favorite experts doing what they love in the front of the camera,” said Alex Wellen, global president and general manager, MotorTrend Group. “We knew they’re talented hosts, mechanics and fabricators but they also happen to be pretty talented camera operators and directors. Fans will enjoy finding out more about what drives them and how they’re working through these unprecedented times.”

The first four episodes of MOTORTREND: WORKING FROM HOME are streaming now on the MotorTrend App. In the first two, master mechanic Ant Anstead from WHEELER DEALERS uses this time social distancing to roll his car collection into the driveway to sort out the small mechanical bits that need some TLC. Assuming the role of director, host and cameraman, Anstead sheds light on controversial plans for Agnus – his 1958 Porsche 356A/1600 Reutter Coupe. Also, Anstead preps to work on Sally, his 1965 Ford Mustang, and Willow, a car he built as a tribute to the legendary Formula One car, the Alfa Romeo 158 in season one of ANT ANSTEAD MASTER MECHANIC.

In episode three, Fred Williams, cohost of the hit series DIRT EVERY DAY, is in his home shop looking to improvise a way to move heavy equipment without a proper forklift or tractor. With some scrap metal and a little fabrication ingenuity, he hopes to transform an old Jeep into a mobile axle crane all while building and filming the entire process without a film crew or his longtime cohost David Chappelle.

Episode four finds Faye Hadley, cohost of ALL GIRLS GARAGE, catching up on work that needs to be done on her beloved Toyota Supra. Hadley reveals how the Supra has gotten her through the best and worst of times in addition how she’s going to keep the car running forever.

The newest episode of MOTORTREND: WORKING FROM HOME premieres Thursday, April 30 featuring David Freiburger, cohost of the hit series ROADKILL, ROADKILL GARAGE and ENGINE MASTERS. Freiburger isn’t getting under the hood but is taking time to cleaning out his hideously messy garage where he finds several lost automotive treasures.

The MotorTrend App offers nearly 8,000 episodes and roughly 4,000 hours of world-leading automotive series and specials including the most complete collection of classic TOP GEAR (200+ episodes and specials spanning seasons one thru 25), the upcoming all-new TOP GEAR AMERICA and every season of WHEELER DEALERS, ROADKILL, FAST N’ LOUD, OVERHAULIN’, BITCHIN’ RIDES, TEXAS METAL, IRON RESURRECTION and many more. The MotorTrend App is available for Prime Video customers in the U.S. on Prime Video Channels and on Amazon FireTV in addition to other media players and streaming devices including Apple TV, Roku, Google Chromecast and on the web, as well as across iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices.

About MotorTrend Group
MotorTrend Group is the largest automotive media company in the world, bringing together Discovery’s fast-growing MotorTrend TV, formerly Velocity, and a vast automotive digital, direct-to-consumer, social, and live event portfolio, including MOTORTREND, HOT ROD, ROADKILL, AUTOMOBILE, and more than 20 other industry-leading brands. With a monthly audience of 26 million across web, TV, and print, and 110 million social followers, culminating in 2 billion monthly content views across all platforms, the company encompasses television’s #1 network for automotive superfans, a leading automotive YouTube Channel, and the MotorTrend App, the only auto-dedicated subscription video-on-demand service. MotorTrend serves to embrace, entertain, and empower the motoring world.
About Discovery
Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment, serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world. Available in 220 countries and territories and nearly 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens, including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Eurosport Player, Food Network Kitchen and MotorTrend OnDemand; digital-first and social content from Group Nine Media; a landmark natural history and factual content partnership with the BBC; and a strategic alliance with PGA TOUR to create the international home of golf. Discovery’s portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and the forthcoming multi-platform JV with Chip and Joanna Gaines, Magnolia, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S., Discovery Kids in Latin America, and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit corporate.discovery.com and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across social platforms.