PBS DISTRIBUTION TO
RELEASE PROVOCATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
“APPLE
TREE YARD”
ON PRIME VIDEO
CHANNELS
Full Season
Starring Emily Watson and Ben Chaplin Will Stream on the PBS MASTERPIECE Amazon
Prime Video Channel
December 4, 2018 – Arlington, VA – PBS Distribution announced today it
will release the thrilling drama “Apple
Tree Yard,” on the PBS MASTERPIECE Amazon Prime Video Channel beginning
December 3rd. The 4-part series, based on the best-selling novel by
Louise Doughty, stars two time Academy Award nominee Emily Watson (“Everest,”
“The Theory Of Everything”) and Ben Chaplin (“The Legend of Tarzan,”
“Cinderella”). Produced by the BAFTA-Award winning Kudos, the producers of
“Broadchurch” and “Humans,” “Apple Tree Yard” is a provocative, audacious thriller
that puts women’s lives at the heart of a gripping, insightful story about the
values we live by and the choices that we make. A ‘what if’ situation that
could happen to any one of us. Dr.
Yvonne Carmichael (Emily Watson) has a high flying career, a beautiful home and
the perfect family. Smart, successful and highly renowned within her field of
genetics, Yvonne has a conventional and apparently contented life, married to
husband Gary (Mark Bonnar), complete with two grown up children.
After confidently presenting to a
Commons Select Committee on her specialist subject, she is approached by a
charismatic and mysterious stranger, who seems refreshingly interested in what
she has to say – refreshingly interested in her. Suddenly, she finds herself alone
and intimate with him in the deserted crypt beneath the House of Commons. It’s
a completely out of character moment of madness. Despite Yvonne’s expectations
that she will never see Mark Costley (Ben Chaplin) again, their encounter
builds to a passionate and all-consuming affair.
However, despite Yvonne’s careful
plans to keep her career and home life separate, fantasy and reality soon start
to overlap; finally everything she values is put at risk when a life-changing
act of violence ultimately leads to a Crown Court trial…
Joining Emily Watson and Ben
Chaplin to complete the stellar cast are Mark Bonnar (Catastrophe, Line Of
Duty), Adeel Akhtar (“Capital,” “Murdered by My Father”), Lydia Leonard (“Life
In Squares,” “River”), Frances Tomelty (“Unforgotten”), Susan Lynch (“Happy
Valley”) and Rhashan Stone (“Strike Back”).
“Apple Tree Yard” is executive
produced by Manda Levin (The Tunnel, River) for Kudos, and BAFTA award winning
writer Amanda Coe who adapted Louise Doughty’s best selling novel. It is produced
by Chris Carey (River, Run, Dirk Gently), directed by Jessica Hobbs (The Slap,
Broadchurch, River). Fremantle distribute the series worldwide.
The full
season of four hour-long episodes will be available on December 3rd. The PBS MASTERPIECE Amazon Prime Video
Channel is available by subscription for $5.99 per month after a seven day free
trial.
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PBS Distribution
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Distribution
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Amazon - PBS MASTERPIECE and PBS KIDS, as well as a theatrical releasing
division, and educational, non-theatrical, inflight and international licensing
businesses.
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offers consumers and educators over 4,000 programming hours of the highest
quality factual, scripted and children’s programming, including films from
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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.
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