THREE CRIME DRAMAS TO PREMIERE THIS MAY FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION “REBORN” “THE COURT: SEASON TWO” AND “ROUGH JUSTICE”

THREE CRIME DRAMAS TO PREMIERE THIS MAY FROM PBS DISTRIBUTION “REBORN” “THE COURT: SEASON TWO” AND “ROUGH JUSTICE” -- Series Are The Latest From The Ever-Popular Walter Presents Library --  Arlington, VA – April 30, 2019 – This May, PBS Distribution will begin streaming three new international crime dramas from the renowned Walter Presents library on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel. These captivating binge-worthy thrillers include: the dark, addictive story of betrayal and revenge, REBORN (May 10); the second season of the compelling, addictive thriller, THE COURT (May 24); and the Belgian crime drama with a sinister edge, ROUGH JUSTICE (May 31). Information about each program is listed below. REBORN The French crime-thriller REBORN takes witness-protection to a whole new level. Felon Alexis Marceau (Bruno Debrandt, Spiral, Cain) gives up his criminal friends in exchange for immunity. With his new identity, he also has reconstructive surgery to make him unidentifiable. Six years have passed and he is now known as Matthias Leblanc. He is working in Turin, Italy as a construction worker when judge Delphine Baron who offers to revoke his house arrest, in exchange for three months of service, approaches him. This means working undercover at his old job where he and his partner ran a small shipping business controlling the traffic of illicit goods. Matthias is hesitant but accepts - no one knows he’s alive, or will recognize his new face. But he knows the people, place  and methods better than anyone. Once undercover and back in Dunkirk, Alexis struggles to keep away from his ex-wife and son. And to make matters worse, his affection for his old life returns - the camaraderie, the easy money, and the adrenaline. But this time he is more reckless and the stakes are higher than ever before. French with English subtitles ·       2 episodes ·       Program begins to stream on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on May 10, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. THE COURT: SEASON 2 This exhilarating Icelandic legal drama follows the professional and personal lives of three Reykjavik lawyers – Logi, Brynhildur and Hordur. Logi is one of the country’s most brilliant legal minds and clearly the most troubled. He’s determined to uncover the truth about what really happened one night in his youth…an incident that left a man dead and Logi in prison for manslaughter. However, his internal demons threaten to send him spiraling into alcoholism. Standing between Logi and self-destruction are his two lawyer colleagues – Brynhildur and Hordur -- whose own private lives are far from simple. In this second season the lawyers are back and this time their private lives are even more of a mess than before. Logi is battling his alcoholism and cheating with Hordur’s girlfriend. Brynhildur finds out that her unborn child might have a genetic disease and then her world falls apart when her fiancé, and the father of her baby, is involved in a terrible accident. Despite their personal problems, the team tackle complicated and dangerous cases including narcotics smuggling, illegal debt collectors, murder, bank fraud and dangerous businessmen.  Part drama and part sophisticated crime thriller, THE COURT is Icelandic noir at its best. Icelandic with English subtitles ·       6 episodes ·       Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on May 24, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. ROUGH JUSTICE Set in Antwerp, Belgium, Superintendent Liese Meerhout leads her close-knit team in the homicide division to the bottom of the city’s darkest crimes. Liese is no ordinary defender of the law. She’s brash, breaks the rules and quite literally bangs the drum in her department.  Always seeking to protect the vulnerable and maintain justice in the greatest sense, she is not afraid to push the boundaries to get to the bottom of even the most complex cases -- usually using unorthodox methods. But when haunting emails from an anonymous sender start appearing in her inbox, a case she thought she had long put behind her resurfaces, and the usually steely and implacable superintendent becomes unnerved. Beautifully shot with a rousing soundtrack, ROUGH JUSTICE is a thrilling series based on the novels by Toni Coppers. Flemish with English subtitles ·       13 episodes ·       Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on May 31, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. 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 January 2016 in the UK as a video-on-demand service and is a joint venture between Channel 4 and Global Series Network, founded by Jason Thorp, Walter luzzolino 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 US 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 September 2018, its first roll-out in mainland Europe, on Discovery’s Nove, Giallo and Dplay channels. In October 2018, Walter Presents partnered with PBS Distribution on Amazon Prime Video to launch over 300 hours of quality foreign language drama on PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel. Follow Walter Presents on WalterPresents.com, Facebook and Twitter 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. Follow PBS Distribution on Facebook and Twitter.

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STREAMING THIS MARCH SIX THRILLING INTERNATIONAL HITS FROM WALTER PRESENTS “CONTACT,” “THE COURT,” “DEAD BEAUTIFUL,” “FLIGHT HS13,” “FRAMED,” AND “INSPECTOR FALKE” Arlington, VA February 25, 2019 – This March, PBS Distribution will begin streaming six new series from the highly acclaimed Walter Present’s library on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel –– CONTACT, THE COURT, DEAD BEAUTIFUL, FLIGHT HS13, FRAMED AND INSPECTOR FALKE. CONTACT Avenging his parent’s brutal murder and the kidnapping of his sister, Thomas Jouannet was sentenced to life imprisonment.  He is freed after serving only 15 years when he makes a deal with the FBI.  Thomas has an extraordinary ability -- psychometry -- when he touches an object; he feels the "psychic footprint" of its owner. He can envision its owner’s memories, emotions and secrets. Thomas is pardoned for his crime since he has agreed to use his gift to read the memories attached to objects that will help the agency solve crimes. However, there is one stipulation -- he cannot leave the U.S. But, once he receives a mysterious package containing an object that after holding he visualizes his brother in trouble, Thomas is packing his bags and headed for France to save his only sibling.  Having broken the arrangement he maintained for years, he now has the FBI on his tail while trying to save his brother’s life. Decider.com says CONTACT “…has a hook that is guaranteed to keep you watching.” French with English subtitles ·      8 episodes ·      Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on March 4, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. THE COURT This exhilarating Icelandic legal drama follows the professional and personal lives of three Reykjavik lawyers. Logi is one of the country’s most brilliant legal minds and clearly the most troubled. He’s determined to uncover the truth about what really happened one night in his youth…an incident that left a man dead and Logi in prison for manslaughter. But his internal demons threaten to send him spiraling into alcoholism. Standing between Logi and self-destruction are his colleagues – two lawyers, Brynhildur and Hordur, whose own private lives are far from simple. Part human drama and part sophisticated crime thriller, THE COURT is Icelandic noir at its best. Entertainmentfocus.com calls THE COURT “quality worldwide drama.” Icelandic with English subtitles ·      6 episodes ·      Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on March 4, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. DEAD BEAUTIFUL This award-winning (Festival de la Fiction TV) Parisian crime drama centers on the self-loathing police commissioner, Martin -- a compassionate and attentive investigator who is completely dedicated to solving some of the most shocking crimes against women.  While trying to solve these crimes Martin also juggles the three women in his life: his ex-wife, the police psychiatrist and his girlfriend, journalist Marion. Each episode of DEAD BEAUTIFUL pits Martin against a new killer, and the first opens with the chilling case of a merciless serial killer who carefully selects his victims from the lonely-hearts pages of a local advertiser.  Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. Luckily, the ladies in his life are on hand to assist him.  Vodzilla.com calls DEAD BEAUTIFUL “essential viewing,” and Entertainmentfocus.com describes, “…each (self-concluding episode) brims with expertly plotted twists and cold-blooded murder.” French with English subtitles ·      9 episodes ·      Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on March 11, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. FLIGHT HS13 Fans of “The Affair,” and “Homeland,” will love this Dutch thriller that follows Liz and Simon, a seemingly happily married couple who have everything they could possibly want -- a lovely son, a beautiful home and successful careers. But their perfect life is over when Simon boards a plane – flight HS13 – to attend a conference in Barcelona.  A few hours later, Liz’s world collapses when she hears Simon’s plane has crashed. No one survived. Very quickly her grief turns to shock and disbelief when she finds out that Simon never actually checked in for the flight. His name was not on the passenger list. But where is Simon?  Why was he last seen on CCTV, embracing an Iranian woman who was accompanied by a young boy?  FLIGHT HS13 follows Liz’s dangerous mission to find out where her husband is and what he’s really been up to.  But can she ever save him from the mortal danger that he now finds himself in? Vodzilla.com described FLIGHT HS13 as “Taking off quickly and promising to stick the landing, this unpredictable thriller is an unexpected treat.” Dutch with English subtitles ·      10 episodes ·      Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on March 18, 2019, available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial.     FRAMED Everything in communications consultant, Michael Bellicher’s life seems to be going well – he just received a promotion at his software firm and a party is being held in his honor to announce it. When an ex-lover appears, however, he lapses back into his unfaithful ways and things begin to spiral out of control. His wife is sick of it and packs her bags. Things suddenly get even worse when that ex lover suddenly turns up dead. His identity is stolen and he is forced to become a fugitive when he is framed for the murder.  Though family and friends doubt his innocence, Bellicher eventually forms an alliance with his newly transgender sister and a computer hacker, Vince. Together, they set out to uncover what is really going on.  Dutch with English subtitles ·      10 episodes ·      Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on March 25, 2019 available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial.         INSPECTOR FALKE Stubborn, brooding and determined, Inspector Thorsten Falke is a devoted police officer who has traded in a family and a social life in the name of justice. Having grown up in the throes of Hamburg’s grimy underbelly, he is now proud to take a stand against crime in his hometown and stands tall as a protector of law. Falke and his partner, Katharina Lorenz, are a resilient, persistent team working to bring down the ruthless criminal gangs threatening Hamburg. Each of the episodes finds the pair faced with a new crime to test their endurance, patience and partnership, forcing audiences to reconsider how far one should go in the name of justice. German with English subtitles ·      7 episodes ·      Full seasons available for streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel on March 25, 2019 available to Prime members for $5.99/month after a 7-day free trial. About WALTER PRESENTS Walter Presents launched January 2016 in the UK 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 US 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 September 2018, its first roll-out in mainland Europe, on Discovery’s Nove, Giallo and Dplay channels. In October 2018, Walter Presents partnered with PBS Distribution on Amazon Prime Video to launch over 300 hours of quality foreign language drama on PBS MASTERPIECE. Follow Walter Presents on WalterPresents.com, Facebook and Twitter 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 - 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. Follow PBS Distribution on Facebook and Twitter.