PBS Announces New Series ‘Professor T’ & ‘Bridgerton’s’ Premiere Date

Prime Video Channel: ‘Professor T’ Starring ‘Bridgerton’s’ Ben Miller and the All New Season of the Award-Winning Crime-Thriller ‘Unforgotten’

Look for both seasons to launch on Sunday, July 11

Five New International Walter Presents Titles Also Available

Arlington, VA – June 17, 2021 – This July, the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel has something for everyone including “Professor T,” based on the hit Belgian series of the same name, starring Ben Miller (Bridgerton, Game of Thrones) and the fourth season of the BAFTA award-winning series “MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Unforgotten.” In “Professor T,” Jasper Tempest, a professor at Cambridge teaching the science of crime, lives a precisely calibrated and rigidly structured life, that is, until a former student, and current detective for the local police, convinces him to help her solve their most difficult cases. Then in “Unforgotten” DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan return as they investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. The new Walter Presents International series streaming on the channel in July are: “The Same Sky,” “The Last Wave,” “The Half Brother,” “Love, Inevitably,” and “Under Suspicion, Season 2.”

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Professor T

Premiere Date: July 11, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller

Language: English

The impeccably dressed meticulously punctual Professor T, lectures daily at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, teaching students imaginatively, if pedantically, about the science of crime. And each evening, he returns home to his apartment, which is as sterile and systematically organized as a science lab. Thanks to this strictly regimented approach, his OCD and germaphobia are under control.

But his buttoned-up world is slowly undone when he is persuaded by one of his former students, Detective Sergeant Lisa Donckers, to assist her in investigating a serial rapist. The Professor’s encyclopedic knowledge of criminal psychology and his brilliant mind prove invaluable to the team, but the cracks in his carefully constructed, emotionless exterior begin to show.

Working with the police – and the fiery, instinctive Lisa, in particular – drags Professor T far from his comfort zone and even forces him to confront his suppressed feelings for an old flame. He also finds it increasingly difficult to escape the influence of his imperious mother (Frances de la Tour), with whom he shares a harrowing family secret that has cast a long shadow over both their lives.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: Unforgotten, Season 4

Premiere Date: July 11, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller

Language: English

In the most dramatic season yet, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) and DI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force.

A corpse is discovered in a scrap yard, with his features frozen in time. Four suspects emerge, all of them having links to the law and having attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then, their lives have gone in very different directions. Some have thrived and others have faltered. But exactly who is fighting for justice? Can the police force ever really be trusted? And will Cassie and Sunny find themselves on the wrong side of the law?

Walter Presents: The Same Sky

Premiere Date: July 2, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Crime Thriller

Language: German with English Subtitles

It’s East Germany in the spring of 1974, and Lars Weber, an East German Intelligence agent, is being relocated to West Berlin, tasked with seducing and spying on women who work in government or defense institutions for other countries. Lars is a young talent only just emerging from his espionage training program when he is assigned the case of Lauren Faber (Sophia Helin, MASTERPIECE: Atlantic Crossing), a data analyst for the British Secret Service at the Devil’s Mountain listening station. Under the strict, sceptical and somewhat twisted guidance of his handler Ralf Müller, Lars quickly proves his talent, making his first steps into Lauren’s wary and formerly closed-off psyche. When Lauren ends up in intensive care, Lars is given a new target: Sabine Cutter, Lauren’s U.S. counterpart at the listening station, who proves a much tougher target. Will he be able to fulfil his mission or will his growing feelings for Sabine lead to an evening that will forever change their lives?

Walter Presents: The Last Wave

Premiere Date: July 16, 2021

Episodes: 6

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Language: French with English Subtitles

One day in Brizan, a quiet seaside resort in the region of Landes in southwestern France, everything changes with the arrival of a wave. When a surge of clouds and a supersized wave collide during a surfing competition it engulfs the participants, causing them to disappear. Five hours later, the surfers reappear unharmed, but with no recollection of what happened to them. One by one, the returning surfers discover they each possess inexplicable powers.

The wave throws the small town into disarray which causes them to face a nightmare that is much bigger than them. This is a thriller of humanity versus nature and not everyone will survive.

Walter Presents: The Half Brother

Premiere Date: July 23, 2021

Episodes: 8

Genre: Drama

Language: Norwegian with English Subtitles

Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Lars Saabye, this award-winning series follows the life of a family spanning five generations in 20th century Europe focusing on the half-brothers Barnum and Fred. On V Day, May 1945, as the continent emerges from war, Barnum’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half-brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, and Fred searching for his – the half-brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still coming down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half-brothers may once again be reunited.

Walter Presents: Love, Inevitably

Premiere Date: July 25, 2021

Episodes: 10

Genre: Rom-Com

Language: Spanish & Italian, with English Subtitles

“Love, Inevitably” is about an incredible and sudden love, made up of reality and imagination. It is the story of Candela and Massimo, a dancer from Seville and an entrepreneur from Rome, two complete opposites, but two destined to meet. It all starts in Prague, where Candela and Massimo meet by chance. It is hate at first sight, and yet they can’t stay away from each other. Once back in their home countries, they appear in each other’s thoughts and visions. From that moment on they will have to put up with paranormal phenomena that happen at the most inopportune moments, demanding their attention and manipulating their choices. In an effort to set these spirits and their souls at ease, they will attempt to make their love a palpable reality.

In addition to the above, the other title that will be streaming on the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel this July is listed below:

Walter Presents: Under Suspicion, Season 2

About PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel

MASTERPIECE has been setting the standard for exceptional British drama in the US for 50 years and the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel continues this legacy and has expanded to include award-winning TV series from around the world – all carefully curated for ‘viewers like you’.