Walter Presents
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Short description: British streaming service
| Walter Presents | |
|---|---|
| Owned by | Channel Four Television Corporation and Global Series Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Template:Channel Four Television Corporation Walter Presents is a video-on-demand service of the UK's Channel 4, part of its streaming platform. Launched on 3 January 2016, it specialises in foreign-language drama and comedy with English subtitles. It is named after Walter Iuzzolino, who selects its content.[1] The service was later offered as an ad-free subscription service in the United States in March 2017,[2] and in Australia via a Foxtel service in November 2017.[3] It launched in New Zealand in May 2020 as part of free streaming service TVNZ OnDemand (now TVNZ+).[4] It has been available in Italy as an on-demand service since September 2018 through a deal between Global and Discovery Networks.[5] In 2022 Walter Presents launched in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland on the premium streaming service C More.[6]
Production
In the UK, the service is a partnership between Channel 4 and Global Series Network. It is free to view and supported by advertisements.[7] Walter Iuzzolino began reviewing potential content for the service two years before its launch, viewing 3,500 hours of television in all.[8]
The service aims to avoid so-called art-house programming in favour of more mainstream productions that compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime for audiences already familiar with such Nordic dramas such as The Bridge.[1] Iuzzolino set three criteria for selection: the show must be popular in its native country, as were Homeland and House of Cards in the United States; it must be "award-winning or already critically acclaimed"; and it must have "the finest writing, directing and acting that each country has to offer...something worth our time as viewers".[8]
To promote the service, some of the content is also being aired on Channel 4's conventional channels, Channel 4 and More4.[8] From October 2019, Welsh-language channel S4C began to broadcast some Walter Presents series with Welsh subtitles as part of Walter Presents ar gyfer S4C for 'Walter Presents for S4C' with some series available with Welsh subtitles online on S4C Clic, the channel's on-demand service.
In the US, Walter Presents (originally known as Walter's Choice) is presented by PBS.[9][10]
Programmes
| Title | Origin | Genre | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10[1] | Switzerland | Mystery drama | Unavailable |
| 13 Commandments | Belgium | Crime thriller | Available |
| 23 Cases | Germany | Crime thriller | Available |
| Acquitted | Norway | Mystery drama | Unavailable |
| Adulterer The Adulterer
|
Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Drama | Available |
| Alex | Sweden | Thriller | Available |
| All the Sins | Finland | Crime drama | Available |
| Amsterdam Vice | Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Crime drama | Available |
| Anne+ | Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Coming-of-age drama | Available |
| Announcer The Announcer
|
France | Period thriller | Available |
| Astrid | France | Detective / Police procedural | Available |
| Arctic Circle | Finland | Crime drama | Available |
| Bad Banks | Germany | Crime drama | Available |
| Beauty and the Baker | Israel | Romance drama | Unavailable |
| Before We Die | Sweden | Thriller | Available |
| Beyond Appearances | France | Mystery drama | Available |
| Black Widow | Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Crime drama | Available |
| Blood Pact The Blood Pact
|
Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Crime drama | Available |
| Blue Eyes[1] | Sweden | Political thriller | Available |
| Body Collector The Body Collector
|
Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Drama | Available |
| Border The Border
|
Poland | Drama | Unavailable |
| Box 21 | Sweden | Crime thriller | Available |
| Bullets | Finland | Thriller | Available |
| Case | Iceland | Psychological crime thriller | Unavailable |
| Cenk Batu[1] | Germany | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Clan[11] | Belgium | Detective drama | Unavailable |
| Cleaning Lady The Cleaning Lady
|
Argentina | Crime thriller | Unavailable |
| Code 37: Sex Crimes | Belgium | Crime drama | Available |
| Contact | France | Mystery drama | Available |
| Court The Court
|
Iceland | Legal drama | Available |
| Cover Story | Iceland | Drama | Available |
| Crimson Rivers The Crimson Rivers
|
France | Crime drama | Available |
| Crow's Blood[12] | Japan | Horror[13] | Unavailable |
| Cry Wolf | Denmark | Drama | Available |
| Dead Beautiful | France | Thriller | Available |
| Deadly Money | Germany | Thriller | Unavailable |
| Deadly Union A Deadly Union
|
France | Mystery drama | Available |
| Deliver Us | Denmark | Psychological drama | Available |
| Detective Cain | France | Crime drama | Available |
| Deutschland 83[1] | Germany | Spy drama | Available |
| Deutschland 86 | Germany | Spy drama | Available |
| Deutschland 89 | Germany | Spy drama | Available |
| Devil's Throat The Devil's Throat
|
Bulgaria | Crime thriller | Available |
| Dicte – Crime Reporter | Denmark | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Dopamine | Denmark | Crime drama | Available |
| Drought The Drought
|
Spain | Crime thriller | Available |
| Elite Squad | France | Police drama | Unavailable |
| Eyewitness | Norway | Crime thriller | Unavailable |
| Farang: Dead Man Running | Sweden | Crime drama | Available |
| Fatal Crossing | Denmark Denmark
|
Crime drama | Available |
| Fear by the Lake | France France
|
Crime thriller | Available |
| Fenix | Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Crime thriller | Available |
| Flight HS13 | Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Thriller | Unavailable |
| Forgotten Girls | France | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Framed | Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Frozen Sky | Germany | Drama | Unavailable |
| Fugitives[14] | Chile | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Gold Diggers | Russia | Thriller | Available |
| A Good Family | Finland | Thriller | Available |
| Greyzone | Denmark, Sweden | Thriller | Available |
| Grow | Denmark | Crime thriller | Available |
| Guardian of the Castle | Croatia | Thriller | Available |
| Heartless[1] | Denmark | Vampire thriller | Unavailable |
| Helen Dorn | Germany | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Hellfjord | Norway | Comedy drama | Unavailable |
| Hide and Seek | Ukraine | Crime drama | Available |
| Home Guards | Hungary | Drama | Unavailable |
| Hostage | Sweden | Thriller | Available |
| Hotel Adlon | Germany | Drama | Unavailable |
| Hotel Beau Séjour | Belgium | Supernatural crime thriller | Available |
| Hunter The Hunter
|
France | Thriller | Unavailable |
| Hunter The Hunter
|
Italy | Crime drama | Available |
| Ice Cold Murders: Rocco Schiavone | Italy | Crime drama | Available |
| Inspector Borowski | Germany | Mystery drama | Available |
| Inspector Falke | Germany | Crime drama | Available |
| Invisibles The Invisibles
|
Czech Republic | Comedy drama | Unavailable |
| Just One Look | France | Action thriller | Available |
| Kabul Kitchen[1] | France | Comedy drama | Unavailable |
| King of Warsaw The King of Warsaw
|
Poland | Historical crime drama | Available |
| Killer by the Lake | France | Crime drama | Available |
| Lanester | France | Mystery drama | Unavailable |
| Lawyer The Lawyer
|
Sweden | Thriller | Available |
| Lens The Lens
|
Czech Republic | Crime thriller | Unavailable |
| Liberty | Denmark | Drama | Available |
| Lifeline[15] | Spain | Thriller | Available |
| Line of Separation | Germany | Historical drama | Unavailable |
| Locked Up | Spain | Prison drama | Available |
| Lolita Lobosco (it) | Italy | Crime drama | Available |
| The Lost | Sweden | Crime drama | Available |
| Luna and Sophie[16][17] | Germany | Detective / Police procedural | Available |
| Mafia Only Kills in Summer | Italy | Coming-of-age dark comedy | Available |
| Mafiosa | France | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Magnifica 70[14] | Brazil | Drama | Available |
| Maltese: The Mafia Detective | Italy | Crime drama | Available |
| Mama's Angel | Israel | Thriller | Available |
| Mammon | Norway | Detective drama | Unavailable |
| Match Day | France | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Merciless[14] | Brazil | Psychological crime thriller | Unavailable |
| Milk and Honey | Israel | Comedy | Unavailable |
| Mind of a Murderer The Mind of a Murderer
|
Germany | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Money Shot The Money Shot
|
France | Drama | Available |
| Monster | Norway | Thriller | Available |
| Moscow Noir | Sweden | Thriller | Available |
| New Nurses | Denmark | Historical drama | Available |
| New Texas | Belgium | Comedy drama | Unavailable |
| Nick's Law | Germany | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Night and Day | Spain | Thriller | Available |
| No Limit | France | Action thriller | Unavailable |
| No Second Chance | France | Thriller | Available |
| Nordic Murders | Germany | Crime drama | Available |
| Norskov | Denmark | Crime drama | Available |
| Other Mother The Other Mother
|
France | Thriller | Available |
| Outlier | Norway | Thriller | Available |
| PAKT | Poland | Political thriller | Available |
| Partisan | Sweden | Crime thriller | Available |
| Partners in Crime: Potsdam Homicide[18][19] | Germany | Detective / Police procedural | Available |
| Passenger The Passenger
|
France | Crime drama | Available |
| Philharmonia | France | Psychological thriller | Available |
| Point Blank | Germany | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Prey The Prey
|
Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Drama | Unavailable |
| Professor T | Belgium | Crime drama | Available |
| Pure Evil[1] | Argentina | Psychological crime thriller | Unavailable |
| Raid The Raid
|
Brazil | Drama | Available |
| Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders | Sweden | Drama | Available |
| Reborn | France | Drama | Unavailable |
| Red Shadows The Red Shadows
|
France | Crime drama | Available |
| Resistance | France | Historical drama | Available |
| Rest In Peace | Croatia | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Rough Justice | Belgium | Detective drama | Available |
| Ride Upon the Storm | Denmark | Drama | Available |
| Ring The Ring
|
Netherlands | Crime drama | Available |
| River The River
|
Norway | Crime drama | Available |
| Sakho & Mangane | Senegal | Crime drama | Available |
| Same Sky The Same Sky
|
Germany | Spy drama | Available |
| Score The Score
|
Belgium | Coming-of-age drama | Available |
| Scratch My Back | Belgium | Comedy drama | Unavailable |
| Seaside Hotel | Denmark | Historical drama | Available |
| Sect The Sect
|
Russia | Drama | Available |
| Shades of Guilt | Germany | Legal thriller | Available |
| Son of a B****[14] | Brazil | Comedy drama | Unavailable |
| Spin[1] | France | Political drama | Unavailable |
| Sr Avila[14] | Mexico | Family crime drama | Unavailable |
| Stockholm Requiem | Sweden | Crime drama | Available |
| Swingers The Swingers
|
Netherlands The Netherlands
|
Mystery drama | Available |
| Tabula Rasa | Belgium | Thriller | Unavailable |
| Tainted | Brazil | Thriller | Unavailable |
| Teacher The Teacher
|
Poland | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Team The Team
|
Denmark | Crime drama | Available |
| Thicker Than Water | Sweden | Mystery drama | Available |
| Thou Shalt Not Kill | Italy | Crime drama | Available |
| Time Is a Killer | France | Psychological thriller | Available |
| Tony's Revenge | France | Crime drama | Unavailable |
| Top Dog | Sweden | Legal thriller | Available |
| Truth Will Out The Truth Will Out
|
Sweden | Crime thriller | Available |
| Twelve The Twelve
|
Belgium | Legal thriller | Available |
| Valkyrien | Norway | Drama | Unavailable |
| Vanished by the Lake | France | Crime drama | Available |
| Very Scandi Scandal A Very Scandi Scandal
|
Sweden | Crime comedy | Available |
| When the Dust Settles (Når støvet har lagt sig, 2020) | Denmark | Psychological drama[20] | Available |
| Witch Hunt | Norway | Thriller | Available |
| Young and Promising | Norway | Drama | Available |
Reception
According to Channel 4, the 11 titles available in the first month attracted 1.1 million views on All 4.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 "Walter Presents: Channel 4 launches new digital service offering best TV shows from around the world". The Independent. 27 November 2015. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/walter-presents-channel-4-launches-new-digital-service-offering-best-tv-shows-from-around-the-world-a6751791.html. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ↑ "Walter Presents streams into the US". Multichannel.com. 3 March 2017. http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/walter-presents-streams-us/411570. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ↑ "Foxtel back in SVOD business, launching Walter Presents in Australia". Mediaweek Australia. 13 October 2017. https://www.mediaweek.com.au/foxtel-walter-presents-svod. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ↑ "Walter Luzzolino on the best TV shows from around the world". Radio New Zealand. 25 May 2020. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018747886/walter-luzzolino-on-the-best-tv-shows-from-around-the-world. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ↑ "Discovery Strikes Deal With Channel 4's Walter Presents To Launch Premium Drama Service In Italy" (Press release). Discovery Corporate Site. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
- ↑ "C More lanserar Walter Presents och blir först ut med kurerad streamingtjänst" (Press release). C More Press Site. 3 January 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Television Business International (22 January 2016). "Walter Presents passes 1m views in two weeks". http://tbivision.com/news/2016/01/walter-presents-passes-1m-views-two-weeks/537432. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Deutschland 83' Just The Tip of the Iceberg of a New World of Subtitled Drama, Courtesy Of 'Walter Presents'". HuffPost. 3 January 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/03/deutschland-83-walter-presents-world-drama_n_8907156.html. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
- ↑ Wolanin, Andrea (January 8, 2020). "What Is "Walter's Choice" Anyway?". WGBH. https://www.wgbh.org/programs/2020/01/08/what-is-walters-choice-anyway.
- ↑ "Walter Presents". PBS. February 25, 2025. https://www.pbs.org/franchise/walter-presents/.
- ↑ "How foreign TV drama became de rigueur with UK viewers". The Guardian. 2 January 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/02/foreign-tv-drama-bbc-channel4-netflix. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ↑ "Crow's Blood - All 4". https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crows-blood.
- ↑ "TV CROW'S BLOOD – allcinema" (in ja). Stingray. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=357151. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Broadcast (18 January 2016). "Walter Presents grabs Latin American drama". http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/walter-presents-grabs-latin-american-drama/5098985.article.
- ↑ "Lifeline Lands in the US and UK". 21 February 2017. http://www.todotvnews.com/news/lifeline-lands-in-the-us-and-uk.html. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ↑ "'Presumed Guilty,' 'Fear by the Lake' Among 'Walter Presents' Titles Coming to PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel in February – Media Play News". 27 January 2021. https://www.mediaplaynews.com/presumed-guilty-fear-by-the-lake-among-walter-presents-titles-coming-to-pbs-masterpiece-prime-video-channel-in-february/. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
- ↑ "Luna and Sophie". https://www.pbs.org/show/luna-and-sophie/. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
- ↑ "Partners in Crime: Potsdam Homicide | Telly Visions". 19 December 2024. https://tellyvisions.org/shows/partners-crime-potsdam-homicide. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
- ↑ "Partners In Crime: Potsdam Homicide". https://www.pbs.org/show/partners-in-crime-potsdam-homicide/. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ↑ Lohmann, Jacob (March 2021). "In conversation with Danish actor and Shorta star Jacob Lohmann". Nordic Watchlist (Interview). Interviewed by Minnis, Alex. Archived from the original on 3 February 2026. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
External links
- Walter Presents – official site
UK - Walter Presents – official site
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