NEW DRAMA “DEEP WATER” LAUNCHING ON THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL THIS DECEMBER PLUS FOUR NEW WALTER PRESENTS TITLES

NEW DRAMA “DEEP WATER” LAUNCHING ON THE PBS MASTERPIECE PRIME VIDEO CHANNEL THIS DECEMBER PLUS FOUR NEW WALTER PRESENTS TITLES Arlington, VA – November 20, 2019 – This December, PBS Distribution debuts five new programs on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel including the launch of the new dark drama, fans of Big Little Lies will love, “Deep Water,” based on the Lake Windermere books by Paula Daly. The series focuses on the lives of three women as they juggle busy lives, families, secrets and lies. The other exciting new programs available include: Walter Presents “Seaside Hotel, Season 3,” “The Teacher,” “Line of Separation, Season 2,” and “All the Sins.” The subscription rate for PBS Masterpiece 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. Deep Water, Season 1 Based on the Lake Windermere books by critically-acclaimed author Paula Daly, the series is about three mothers, each with a child in the same class at a school set among the epic scenery of lakes and mountains of England’s Lake District. But behind closed doors, each seemingly ordinary woman is struggling with an extraordinary moral and ethical crisis. Unorganized Lisa, (Anna Friel, Marcella, Butterfly) preoccupied with a secret, forgets to pick her friends’ daughter up from school who then goes missing.  Streaming: December 6, 2019 Episodes: 6 Genre: British Drama Language: English Physiotherapist Roz (Sinad Keenan, Little Boy Blue) is in debt and faced with an ethical and moral decision she needs to make to help her family. And alpha mom Kate (Rosalind Eleazar, Howards End, Rellik) appears to have it all, but does she really? Delving into the female psyche, the series investigates the tangled issues of modern parenting, women’s friendships and relationships as well as their sexual desires. Walter Presents: Seaside Hotel, Season 3 It is summer once again at the Seaside Hotel and Mrs. Andersen and her maids open up for a new season. It is 1930, and the financial crisis threatens to cut off the hotel’s supplies, but the bourgeois guests refuse to let go of the upscale and luxurious holiday life they’ve become accustomed to. However, when behind closed doors, their seemingly perfect facades begin to shatter. Merchant Madsen is struggling to recover from his bankruptcy that happened last year. Streaming: December 6, 2019 Episodes: 7 Genre: Drama/ Mystery Language: Danish with English Subtitles Amanda is still married to the secretly homosexual Count Ditmar, but is dreaming of the affair she had last summer with Max. Mrs. Aurland is afraid her husband will discover he isn’t the father of their new-born son when the real father checks into the hotel. Actor Mr. Weyse, arrives in the company of a young student actress, Kitty Hansen, who is not as innocent as she might appear. And at the center of all this we follow the head maid Fie as she struggles with work, life and love. All the while, with the guests’ shenanigans keeping everyone so pre-occupied nobody notices what’s happening south of the Danish border, where a small Nazi-party begins to grow. Walter Presents: The Teacher The crime thriller, The Teacher takes place in a beautiful rural town in the woodlands of Poland. Just before the start of the new school year, three boys venture into the woods and discover the dead body of their classmate, Joanna. When the original verdict of suicide is ruled out by the police, Paweł, a teacher from the local school is determined to uncover the real reasons behind her death. His unofficial investigation lifts the lid on a disturbing trail of political and big business corruption and, as he gets closer to revealing the truth, he too becomes the subject of a manhunt. But, as the young girl was his secret biological daughter, he will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Streaming: December 13, 2019 Episodes: 10 Genre: Crime/Drama Language: Polish with English Subtitles Walter Presents: Line of Separation, Season 2 Line of Separation depicts a small village in Germany literally torn in half by the cold war. The second season picks up in 1960 where lovers Friedrich and Anna and friend Adolf Hoffman are trying to convince the older farmers to join the socialist cooperative. Meanwhile, children playing in the western part of the town are unaware that the American army has deposited bombs and grenades in that area. While playing with his brother Emil, five-year-old Karl Schober finds a box full of explosives and accidentally triggers a grenade that kills his brother. Streaming: December 20, 2019 Episodes: 6 Genre: Drama/Mystery Language: German with English Subtitles Emil’s death arouses the old feud between Franz Schober and Georg von Striesow who works as a secret agent for the Americans. Now there is a struggle for whether or not the story should go public. Walter Presents: All the Sins All the Sins follows young Finnish detective Lauri, who is sent on an assignment to his childhood hometown of Varjakka, where the small, religious community there is shaken by two brutal murders. The majority of Varjakka’s population follow Laestadianism, an extreme form of conservative religion. Because  Lauri is a native of the town, the police force believes he is the best option for solving the case even though ten years ago Lauri disassociated himself with the community due to his sexuality.  Streaming: December 20, 2019 Episodes: 6 Genre: Drama/Mystery Language: Finish with English Subtitles Helping in the investigation is senior detective Sanna, a woman whose lifestyle also doesn’t fall into the conservative religious beliefs of the small town. The two murder victims were Laestadian men, and suspicion automatically falls on the local anti-religion group. But in such a strange and close-knit community, there are bound to be more secrets buried beneath the ground. All The Sins explores the profound effect of religion and oppressed feelings have on vulnerable individuals, from both sides of the argument. 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.  Follow Walter Presents on Facebook and Twitter   About PBS Distribution PBS Distribution, jointly owned by PBS and WGBH, is a leading distributor of public media content around the world. Distribution platforms include: direct-to-consumer subscription video-on-demand (DTC-SVOD) channels– PBS MASTERPIECE, PBS KIDS, and PBS LIVING – all on Amazon Prime Video Channels, with PBS LIVING also available on the Apple TV app, transactional video-on-demand (TVOD), subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) licensing, and physical products on DVD and Blu-ray. Other divisions of the company include: theatrical releasing, educational, non-theatrical, inflight and international licensing. 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.