“JAMESTOWN”
RETURNS TO THE
PBS
MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL
New
season premieres on November 21
“Epic frontier drama”
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-- TV Times
“The brilliant
historical drama”
-- The Sun
Arlington, VA – October 31, 2018 – PBS
Distribution is pleased to announce that the epic drama JAMESTOWN returns for a second season. Full of dazzling ventures in love, war, and
diplomacy, the new season premieres on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video channel,
and in PBS Passport beginning November 21,
2018. From the makers of Downton Abbey and written by Bill
Gallagher (Lark Rise to Candleford, The
Paradise), this dramatic series
follows the lives of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts
behind in England to start new lives on the edge of
the breathtaking but untamed Virginian wilderness, in the 17th
century colony of Jamestown.
Season 2 takes viewers back to a
thriving colony, where the tobacco
plantations are starting to provide the wealth they promised and trade booms;
but the status quo will soon be disrupted by births, deaths, and broken
marriages. The pioneering settlers find themselves at the heart of adventure
once more as a kidnapping, new rivalries, and a traitor threaten to disrupt the
peace. New romantic connections are made, desires repressed, and even the
purest of loves will be tested. The power of politics will impact the whole
community, as the battle for supremacy continues.
A
new episode of JAMESTOWN will be
available each Monday on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video channel, available to
Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial, and in PBS Passport, a
member benefit for PBS station donors that offers extended access to a rich
library of public television programming (contact your local PBS station for details).
JAMESTOWN is produced by Carnival Films, an
NBCUniversal International Studios company, and executive produced by Richard
Fell, Bill Gallagher, Nigel Marchant and Gareth Neame, and produced by Sue de
Beauvoir.
The ensemble cast includes: Sophie
Rundle, Niamh Walsh and Naomi Battrick as the leading female roles. The male
leading roles include Max Beesley, Jason Flemyng, Kalani Queypo and Raoul
Trujillo.
The series is distributed worldwide
by NBCUniversal International Distribution.
About
PBS Distribution
PBS Distribution is a leading distributor of public media content around the world,
reaching audiences through multiple platforms and formats including
direct-to-consumer subscription video-on-demand (DTC-SVOD), transactional
video-on-demand (TVOD), subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) licensing, and
physical products on DVD and Blu-ray. In addition, the company operates
two Prime Video Channels on Amazon - PBS MASTERPIECE and PBS KIDS, as well as a
theatrical releasing division, and educational, non-theatrical, inflight and
international licensing businesses.
PBS Distribution
offers consumers and educators over 4,000 programming hours of the highest
quality factual, scripted and children’s programming, including films from
producer Ken Burns, hit dramas from MASTERPIECE, entertaining and educational
children’s series and award-winning documentaries from NOVA, FRONTLINE,
AMERICAN MASTERS, NATURE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and many independent producers.
For over 20 years, the company has extended the reach of programming beyond
broadcast while generating revenue for the public television system, stations
and producers.
About Carnival Films
Carnival Films is a division of
NBCUniversal International Studios and one of the UK’s leading drama
specialists. The company is responsible for the global television phenomenon Downton
Abbey and current primetime series such as The Last Kingdom for
Netflix, and Jamestown and Stan Lee’s Lucky Man for Sky One. The
company is currently filming the Downton
Abbey movie, with Focus Features and Universal Pictures International
distributing. Other shows produced over Carnival’s history include Poirot,
Hotel Babylon, Whitechapel and Dracula, as well as
award-winning mini-series such as Traffik, Any Human Heart, The
Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies and The Hollow Crown anthology.
Carnival has received a host of national and international awards including
Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, and has been recognized as the UK’s
best production company at both the Bulldog Awards and Broadcast Awards.
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