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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:-

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Coming Up In February

FATAL CROSSING

Norway/Denmark
1 x episode premiere on Channel 4 early hours on Monday 3 February at 00:05am
Available on Channel 4 streaming from Friday 31 January
Star journalist Nora Sand has been removed from her prestige post in London after her affair with a source on a major case broke into the national media. She returns to her childhood home in rural North Zealand, feeling betrayed and angry but reluctantly planning to keep her head down until the scandal dissipates. However, soon after she arrives, she receives an anonymous envelope with a set of previously unseen photos about an unsolved case from the 1980s. With all her journalistic instincts aroused, she can't resist looking into it. Who wants to resurrect the case of the two girls who disappeared on a ferry crossing? Another teenage girl vanishes just as Nora begins her investigation. 

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New in January

SLEEPERS (Series 1)
Netherlands
Available on Channel 4 streaming
As young boys, Martin and his friend Willem were taken under the wing of an old school criminal, Henk. Willem followed Henk down the criminal path, but Henk had other plans for Martin and sent him to a police academy with the intention to later pass on insider information.

With the murder of Henk, Martinis forced  into passing on sensitive information to a new criminal gang and is slowly being dragged further down inside the criminal underworld.

When a detective is killed, a special force team is assigned to the case led by Tarik Mesina, who finds out the murdered detective was corrupt. This puts everyone and everything on edge and under suspicion.

Being pushed into a corner on both sides, Martin has to navigate the dangerous line between his obligations as a cop and his loyalty to the criminals to keep himself clear of suspicion and to protect his family.

BLACKWATER
Sweden
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Midsummer 1973 in the town of Blackwater in North Sweden. The longest day of the year, where the sun never sets, and the night is as bright as day.

Annie arrives by bus with her six-year-old daughter, Mia. They are to join Annie’s boyfriend Dan in a remote commune. When Dan does not pick them up as agreed, Annie set out on a nightly hike with Mia through the forest. But their trip comes to a sudden end, as Annie stumbles upon a torn tent with two bloody bodies inside.

Annie soon finds herself a suspect in a murder investigation, as does others in the local community.

ASTRID: MURDER IN PARIS (Series 4)
France
Full run on More 4 from Friday 24 January at 9pm
Episodes available on Channel 4 streaming post transmission
In the new 8-part series, Astrid and Raphaelle are back solving more mysterious crimes,  including a bloody diamond heist, a Machiavellian chess game, an in-flight murder and a "twice-dead victim," they also have to contend with serious disruptions in their own private lives!

Astrid's seven-year-old half-brother Niels suddenly comes into her life out of nowhere, and he's very clingy! It’s not easy handling this little boy while she's trying to build a relationship with Tetsuo!

And just when Raphaelle thought she could clinch the deal with Nicolas, a misunderstanding unsettles everything and allows their new colleague, Nora, to worm her way into their emotional imbroglio.

THE DAY (Series 1)
Belgium/Flemish
Available on Channel 4 streaming
An ingenious bank robbery in a quiet Flemish town spirals out of control. Police and hostage takers start a nail-biting cat-and-mouse game that holds the town in its grip for an entire day. A taut, suspenseful mystery alternately looking at events from the perspective of the police and the press, as well as that of the bank robbers, the victims and their families. Each episode lifting a tiny piece of the veil, which shows that there is more to this than meets the eye.

The clock is ticking. Lives are hanging by a thread. And nobody is to be trusted.

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New In December

The New Front

Germany
Available on Channel 4 streaming.
In this new 6-part series, we meet Julia a confident young trainee police officer who works hard at her demanding classes. When she meets a charming but mysterious man called Nick,  they swap numbers and before long,  become involved, but Nick is hiding a dark secret and has ulterior motives in romancing Julia. Starring Emma Bading, Jannick Schümann, Jeanette Hain, David Schütter, Devid Striesow, Rainer Bock and Lorna Ishema. In German with English subtitles.

Black Tulip

Netherlands
(Series 1 and 2)
Available on Channel 4 streaming.
Two families of industrial tulip growers, the Vonks and the Kesters, have been mortal enemies ever since a mysterious and tragic accident affected the Kesters. Now they're chasing the same goal of developing a black tulip, causing intense and dangerous enmity between the families. On the big day of the tulip parade in the local town, patriarch Luuk Vonk believes he's made a historic breakthrough, but will he be allowed to enjoy his triumph? Add in a hint of romantic entanglements across the hard family boundaries, and it's all about to kick off for the Kester and Vonk families. Starring Huub Stapel, Linda van Dyck, Anna Drijver, Benja Bruijning, Carolien Spoor, Roeland Fernhout and Renée Fokker. In Dutch with English subtitles.

Seaside Hotel

Denmark
(Series 7 and 8)
Available on Channel 4 streaming.
We’re back at the seaside as the hotel opens for the summer season.  It’s 1940 and  Amanda is the new owner.  The Germans have occupied Denmark but the previous years’ guests return in part to forget about the occupation.
In the summer of 1941, the German occupying forces has commandeered the neighbouring hotel but that doesn’t keep the regular hotel guests away.

Freezing Embrace

Finland
Available on Channel 4 streaming
When a small Finnish town becomes the centre of a series of chilling drownings, Detective Antti Hautalehto faces a gripping investigation that tests his loyalty and unravels dark secrets. New 8-part drama.

New in November

The Palace

Germany
Available on Channel 4 streaming
In this new 6-part German drama, set during the Cold War, twins Christine and Marlene are separated in 1961 when their father leaves for the west.  Years later, Marlene goes to East Berlin for a business meeting and gets a major shock when she sees her doppelganger dancing in a big revue. She follows the dancer, who turns out to be Christine, the sister she never knew she had and they have an emotional encounter, before Marlene must go back behind the Wall. The two women have many questions and are determined to find out, together, the truth about their lives. How will they manage this dangerous feat in a divided Germany? Starring Svenja Jung, Anja Kling, Heino Ferch, Jeanette Hain, Luise Befort, Hannes Wegener and August Wittgenstein. In German with English subtitles.

Syndrome E

France
Available on Channel 4 streaming
After Lucie Henebelle, a lieutenant on the anti-crime squad shoots her own partner during a skewed homicide investigation, washed-up but brilliant detective Franck Sharko is assigned to look into why. Haunted by ghosts of his past, Sharko must unravel the mysterious Syndrome E before it’s too late. Starring Vincent Elbaz and Jennifer Decker. In French with English subtitles.

Berlin Wall

Germany
Available on Channel 4 streaming
Set in the late 1980s in a disintegrating East Germany. Margot Spindler is a major in the security service, the Stasi. She's one of the key movers in money-raising schemes of the service, including the lucrative trafficking of people across the border to West Germany. The authorities in West Berlin justify accepting and paying for the people who are smuggled across the Wall as humanitarianism: the Stasi see it as a vital way to keep East Germany solvent. But the Wall is only permeable for the chosen; for others, restrictions are imposed brutally. Margot's sister, bookshop owner Lotte Bohla, joins the environmental resistance with the help of her lover who is an active member. Margot and Lotte have a sibling who disappeared years ago and is presumed dead, but is she? What effect will the sisters' actions have as the Iron Curtain crumbles? Starring Nadja Uhl, Barbara Auer, Nicolette Krebitz, Oliver Masucci, Godehard Giese, Angela Winkler and Joachim Król. In German with English subtitles.

Oxen

Denmark
Available on Channel 4 streaming
After the death of his best friend on a mission headed by Major Hannibal Frederiksen, decorated war hero Niels Oxen, convinces the chairman of the Defence Committee to look into the circumstances surrounding his death. When the chairman is subsequently killed, Hannibal walks free and Oxen is falsely accused of possession and dishonourably discharged. When Hannibal is found dead along with two others, Oxen becomes the prime suspect.

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Box Sets Worth a Binge

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 4 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 1-8 available on Channel 4 streaming
Set in the 1920s to the 1940s. Wealthy guests, and not-so-wealthy staff and locals, make an annual hotbed of intrigue at a luxury seaside hotel.