Walter Presents

Coming Up 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 on Channel 4 streaming only from Friday 19 July
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
1 x episode premiere on Channel 4 Sunday 28 July at midnight
Available on Channel 4 streaming from Friday 26 July
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 Silence (Series 1 and 2)
Croatia/Ukraine
Available now 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 now 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.

The Sommerdahl Murders (Series 1)
Denmark
Full run on More 4 - From Friday 28 June to Friday 19 July
Double bills at 9pm
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…

New in May

The Twelve - Cinderella Murder  (Series 2)
Belgium (FL) 
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
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 now 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. 

The Sketch Artist (Series 2)
Canada (FR)
Available on Channel 4 streaming now
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. 

Unbroken
Germany
Available on Channel 4 streaming now
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 now
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.

New in April

Sweetheart
Canana (FR)
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
Chanelle, a 38 year old French teacher is a happily married mother of 2, but no one is left unscathed after she embarks on an illicit love affair with Sandrick, a 17 year old teenager who has just been transferred to her class.  New 8-part French Canadian drama.

Sløborn (Series 2)
Denmark/Germany
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
The small group of people who resisted removal from Sløborn fearing they would be exposed to an even greater risk on the mainland now face the collapse of the power grid and as the comforts of civilisation diminish, an explosive mix of people and tempers threatens to erupt in the 6-part second series of this Danish/German drama.

Morten
Netherlands
Available now on Channel 4 streaming
Morten Mathijsen seemingly has it all, a beautiful wife and family, a successful political career and the prospect of becoming the next Prime Minister -  until a dark secret from his past threatens his reputation. New 8-part drama from the Netherlands.

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 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 is 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.

The Wagner Method (Series 2)
Series 1 and 2 available now on Channel 4 streaming
More criminal adventures with quirky, but kind-hearted Detective César Wagner.