PBS DISTRIBUTION PREMIERES TWO NEW
MASTERPIECE DRAMAS AND
THREE INTERNATIONAL SERIES THIS JUNE ON THE
MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL
Arlington, VA – June 10, 2019 – This June, PBS Distribution will begin streaming five new programs on the
MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel, including “Endeavour, Season 6” the popular prequel to the Inspector
Morse series, “Jamestown: Season 3” the epic drama full of dazzling ventures in love, war, and diplomacy,
and three Walter Presents (WP) crime thrillers. “WP: Tainted” is a dark and gripping series from Brazil,
with familial betrayal as its theme, “WP: Tony’s Revenge,” is an award-winning French drama about two
prison-cell inmates and their budding relationship after their jail break, and “WP: Professor T,” the quirky
Belgium series that features one of the rudest, yet brilliant crime-fighters.
Table of Contents
Endeavour: Season 6 Walter Presents: Tainted
Jamestown: Season 3 Walter Presents: Tony’s Revenge
Walter Presents: Professor T
Endeavour: Season 6
Shaun Evans sports a new look as DS Endeavour Morse in season 6 of the detective drama “Endeavour”,
the popular prequel to the long-running Inspector Morse series. A coproduction of Mammoth Screen and
MASTERPIECE, the latest installment of “Endeavour” is set in 1969.
Evans will also be putting his directorial mark on the show, heading behind the camera for the second 90-
minute episode of the series.
Street Date June 17, 2019
Episodes 6 episodes
Subscription Rate $5.99/month
Genre Mystery
Language English
His character will also be facing new challenges, with Morse having started a new role as a uniformed
officer at the Woodstock police department and embracing the fashion of the period by growing a
moustache.
Alongside Evans, the new series will see celebrated stage and screen actor Roger Allam return as DI Fred
Thursday, alongside Anton Lesser as CS Reginald Bright, Sean Rigby as DS Jim Strange, James Bradshaw as
Dr. Max DeBryn, Sara Vickers as Joan Thursday, Abigail Thaw as Dorothea Frazil and Caroline O’Neill as
Win Thursday.
Following the dissolution of the Oxford City Police and the merging with Thames Valley Constabulary at
the end of the last series, the new series picks up with the team dispersed as they find their feet in their
various new roles. However, despite their separation, the tragic murder of DC George Fancy still hangs
over them both collectively and individually, with the case remaining unresolved.
Jamestown, Season 3
From the producers of Downton Abbey, this exciting and dramatic series follows the lives of three
courageous, dynamic women who decide to leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the
journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in 17th century America. In Season 3, it’s boom time in
Jamestown, and Virginia promises riches and freedom. But old feuds remain, leading to a revenge plot, a
tyrannical leader, and a clash between the English and Pamunkey. These conflicts will shape the New
World for centuries to come.
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 written and created by Bill Gallagher (Lark Rise to Candleford, The Paradise).
Street Date June 17, 2019
Episodes 8 episodes
Subscription Rate $5.99/month
Genre Arts
Language English
Tainted
“TAINTED” is a dark and gripping Brazilian crime thriller with a terrible family betrayal at its heart which
casts everything in doubt.
When André is released from prison, life is pretty bleak. He has been imprisoned three years for
kidnapping a child and while the sentence may be over, his record is forever TAINTED. What’s more, it
becomes apparent André is in fact innocent and the man behind the crime is none other than his very
own father.
Having used terminal cancer as a bargaining plea, André’s father blackmailed him into taking
responsibility for the kidnapping so that he can live out his final months as a free man. Despite promising
to leave a confession of his guilt, he dies without writing a word and André is condemned to being labeled
guilty indefinitely.
Believing him to be a criminal, upon release he is cruelly rejected by his family and everyone he held dear
in his former life. Left with no other options, André adopts a new career that requires the investigative
skills he had previously acquired as a policeman, without the clean record: bounty hunting.
“TAINTED” is nightmarish and addictive, following André’s messy professional pursuits on the mean
streets of Rio de Janiero and the even more chaotic home life he is desperately trying to untangle.
Starring a multi-award winning cast, “TAINTED” is a high quality and deeply seductive Brazilian
blockbuster.
Street Date June 14, 2019
Episodes 13 episodes
Subscription Rate $5.99/month
Genre Arts: Mystery
Language Portuguese with
English Subtitles
Tony’s Revenge
The award-winning French crime thriller “TONY’S REVENGE” is set in 2010 when Tony Roucas, aka Crazy
Tony is serving a long-term prison sentence. He and his cellmate, a young delinquent named Kenz, make
a break for it. Helped by Kenz’s friends, they make a successful getaway.
Outside the prison walls, they have absolutely nothing in common: the smash-and-grab world of hoodie
wearing estate gangsis a far cry away from the starch shirt, cufflink mobsters of the 50’s and 60’s. However,
penniless and in hiding, Tony and Kenz spark an unlikely friendship as they undertake a series of missions
together with both dramatic and comedic consequences.
With flashbacks taking us from the 1950’s right up to the 1980’s, the series paints a vivid picture of the
history of French organized crime.
Professor T: Season 3
Fans of “Monk” and “House” will enjoy watching the eccentrically gifted professor, Professor T*, unravel
complex criminal puzzles for the police with his brilliant mind. The show’s namesake character is an
esteemed criminologist at Antwerp University. He inspires scores of students with his punchy teaching
techniques. However, outside the lecture hall, he is haunted by a plethora of neuroses that hold him back
from getting close to people – he quite literally protects himself from the outside world in a shroud of
anti-bacterial spray and latex gloves. Despite this, the Antwerp Homicide Department relies on him and
his team for expert advice.
Street Date June 21, 2019
Episodes 8 episodes
Subscription Rate $5.99/month
Genre Arts: Mystery
Language French with English
Subtitles
Street Date June 21, 2019
Episodes 13 episodes
Subscription Rate $5.99/month
Genre Arts: Mystery
Language Flemish with English
Subtitles
Season 3 picks up where the heart-breaking ending to series 2 takes the world’s most germophobic man
to his own personal hell: a filthy men’s prison, where the control over his routine and spotless
surroundings he depends upon are taken from him. After killing the crooked chief-inspector Serge
Lauwers to protect Christine, Jasper Teerlinck (Professor T) is immediately incarcerated. For the
mysophobic and autistic professor, he could not be thrown into a more challenging situation. However,
against all odds he finds a way to embrace his new life and thrive: when a fellow prisoner claims to be
wrongly accused of murder, Professor T dusts off his gloves and sets to proving his innocence. They say
old habits die hard...
His reputation may have been saved within prison and guaranteed him a steady stream of wrongly accused
defendants to save, but on the outside the Antwerp police department strongly sense his absence. Despite
new talent on the team, they desperately lack his interfering genius to solve the constant supply of
complicated crimes that come their way.
About MASTERPIECE
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 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 Downstairs, 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 drama 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 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
three Prime Video Channels on Amazon—PBS MASTERPIECE, PBS KIDS, and PBS Living—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.
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