Walter Presents
Since launching in January 2016, Walter Presents has continued to highlight some of the very best in binge-worthy drama to stream on Channel 4. If you’re not yet a devotee, we can change all that – head over to WALTER PRESENTS where you’ll find a fantastic collection of European and World drama including:-
Coming Up In September
Bordertown
Finland
Available on Channel 4 streaming only from Friday 6 September
A gifted detective Kari Sorjonen, takes a job in a small town so he can spend more time with family - his recovering wife and teenage daughter and enjoy a more peaceful life. But it seems that the idyllic life they he had hoped for is far from the reality of this bordertown between Finland and Russia. New 11-part series.
1985
Belgium (FR/FL)
Early hours of Tuesday 17 September at 00:35am
1 x ep premiere on Channel 4 (series available on Channel 4 streaming post transmission)
Set against the backdrop of Belgium’s most notorious unsolved crime spree the 8-part series, 1985 is about one of the darkest pages in Belgium’s history, marked by police corruption and crimes committed by the so-called ‘Brabant Killers’.
In 1980, best friends Marc (Tijmen Govaerts) and Franky (Aimé Claeys), and his sister Vicky (Mona Mina Leon), begin a new chapter of their lives, when they set off from their hometown to move to Brussels. Vicky as a law student and pirate radio DJ, Marc and Franky as two young Gendarmarie police recruits. But as their adulthood and careers in the big city commence, the trio risk losing their innocence and ideals as they find themselves caught in the middle of the horrifying events that shocked a generation and will come to leave a scar on the entire country.
The Wall - Chateau Murders (Series 2)
Canada (FR)
Friday 20 September at 9pm and 10pm (Full run on More 4)
Launching with a double bill, the second season of the 9-part Canadian drama The Wall returns. The body of an infamous engineer, found buried in a cement bath, sets Detective Sergeant Céline Trudeau in charge of another mysterious murder investigation. The engineer was held responsible for the collapse of an overpass that claimed the lives of 12 people a few years earlier. Did the relatives of one or more victims want revenge?
New in August
Lolita Lobosco (Series 2)
Italy
Available on Channel 4 streaming
The Italian crime drama from Walter Presents returns with a new 6-part series. The confident and instinctive Deputy Superintendent Lolita Lobosco has settled back into her hometown Bari to tackle crime, but there are difficult days ahead not only in her personal relationships but with her continued search to find out the truth about her father's murder.
Hostage
Sweden
Full run on More 4 starting Friday 16 August with a double episode from 9pm
Ambitious and smart Fredrika Bergman, who works at the Ministry of Justice, is seconded into a fast-developing situation involving the remotely controlled hijacking of a plane flying from Sweden to the US.
Evil
Sweden
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Erik is a teenager in 1950s Stockholm, and the leader of a money lending gang who terrorizes his school but at home is the victim of abuse from his stepfather. After attacking another student and being expelled his mother sends him to the prestigious boarding school Stjernsberg, where he promises her he will turn his life around, but when the older students try to make him submit to the school’s brutal fagging system, he is forced to choose between standing up to them, and risking his future or submitting.
Everything You Love
Norway
1 x ep premiere on Channel 4 early hours of Tuesday 27 August at 00:10am
Available on Channel 4 streaming Friday 23 August
Sara and Jonas coincidentally run into each other on a subway carriage when there's a major delay in the service. They were childhood sweethearts who met at summer camp 10 years previously and have strong memories of their time together. The feelings from the past quickly re-ignite, but beneath the surface, Jonas is hiding a bleak view of reality. He's become radicalised by online communities which offer him affirmation and feed his constant feelings of isolation from his peers and other generations. Can Sara help him to find a more hopeful and less dangerous path in life? Starring Jakob Fort, Mina Dale, William Gundersen, Sjur Vatne Brean, Leif Arno Hofheinz, Jim Swann, David Nzinga, Bendik Mauseth and Hannah Minos Roalsvig. In Norwegian with English subtitles.
New in July
Inspector Ricciardi (Series 2)
Italy
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
Set in 1930s Naples, Inspector Ricciardi, is back for second series aided by the faithful Maione and the medical examiner Bruno Modo. Together they solve the most difficult murder cases with Ricciardi using his extraordinary and unusual gift of hearing and seeing the ghosts of people who have died violently.
The Wagner Method (Series 3)
France
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
In two brand new episodes, the dedicated but obsessive detective Captain Cesar Wagner returns to investigate new crimes in his hometown of Strasbourg. In this third season, Wagner has two new complex and sensitive cases to manage. With Elise’s help, can Cesar and the team find out whodunnit?
Carmen Curlers (Series 2)
Denmark
Available now Channel 4 streaming
Axel’s ambition to sell his curlers all over the world as well as to create the world’s best workplace hits a snag when a manufacturing defect in 50,000 sets of curlers halts production and Axel starts suspecting sabotage. Someone must have ruined the curlers on purpose, but who?
New in June
The Sommerdahl Murders (Series 1)
Denmark
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Based on characters from Anna Grue’s successful books, this series follows the exploits of Dan Sommerdahl who finds he has a flair for solving crime after a dead body is found in his office. The case is being overseen by this best friend, Chief Inspector Flemming Torp, who just happens to be in love with Dan’s wife…
The Silence (Series 1 and 2)
Croatia/Ukraine
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Walter Presents a powerful and poignant Croatian and Ukrainian crime drama. A cop and a reporter on a Croatian murder case cross paths with a Ukrainian expat in search of her missing niece.
You Shall Not Lie
Spain
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Macarena is a teacher at a prestigious school in Belmonte, an idyllic seaside development of luxury homes where she leads a peaceful life with her teenage daughter Natalia and her husband Néstor, a well-known psychiatrist until one day an accusation from a student changes everything.
New in May
The Sketch Artist (Series 2)
Canada (FR)
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Several weeks have passed since the events of last season. Eve has been on leave, Maryse was discharged from the rehab centre but still has the after-effects of her attack, Anto does everything to forget that he killed a man…. But crime doesn’t sleep and the team gets back together to investigate several new cases.
The Twelve and The Twelve - Cinderella Murder
Belgium (FL)
Both series available on Channel 4 streaming
In the first series we follow the deliberations of 12 jurors on a high profile murder trial. What will they decide? Guilty or not guilty?
In the second series of this intense Belgian drama Anton Bergman and his daughter Julie have been charged with the murder of Marianne Coens, Anton's partner and Julie's stepmother; their relationship has led to the crime being known as the Cinderella Murder.
Hierro
Spain
Series 1 and 2 available on Channel 4 streaming
Investigative magistrate Candela is transferred to the small remove island, El Hierro where a murder has been committed. The local populous believe that Diaz, a shady local businessman is responsible but he claims he's innocent. Diaz is out to find the real murderer, and so is Candela.
Unbroken
Germany
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Heavily pregnant Inspector Alex Enders is kidnapped and finds herself a week later in front of a housing estate on the edge of the forest dressed only in a shirt. Her child is gone and Alex has no memory of the birth and nothing of the six days since her kidnapping. In search of her baby, she puts everything on the line.
Kafka
Austria
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Franz Kafka, the world’s most widely read German-language author, will have died 100 years ago in June 2024, and the time has come for an entertaining and humorous serial approach to his life and character in this 6-part series from best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann and the writer-director David Schalko.
Box Sets Worth a Binge
All The Sins
Series 1-3 available on Channel 4 streaming
The intense Finnish crime drama continues with the Detectives having to face personal crises and painful pasts while chasing killers in a small conservative town.
Astrid: Murder in Paris
Series 1-3 available on Channel 4 streaming
Rule-breaking detective Raphaëlle Coste co-opts autistic archivist Astrid Nielsen to help solve intractable cases. Series 3 currently being broadcast on More 4 - Fridays at 9pm.
The Crimson Rivers
Series 1-4 available on Channel 4 streaming
Commissioner Pierre Niemans and Lieutenant Camille Delaunay return to solve more macabre murders. In French with English subtitles.
Inspector Borowski
Series 1-3 available on Channel 4 streaming
Inspector Klaus Borowski tackles cases in and around the city of Kiel with his young colleagues in this complex German detective drama from Walter Presents
Seaside Hotel
Series 1-6 available on Channel 4 streaming
Set in the 1920s and 1930s. Wealthy guests, and not-so-wealthy staff and locals, make an annual hotbed of intrigue at a luxury seaside hotel.