In Conversation with Walter Presents

Abstract

The video-on-demand service Walter Presents launched in the UK on 3 January 2016, as part of Channel 4’s All 4 online platform. The service was founded by Walter Iuzzolino, Jo McGrath, and Jason Thorp and specialises in bringing subtitled international drama and comedy to British audiences. Iuzzolino acts as frontman and curator of the service and explains that series are selected because they are “big shiny hits in their native country”, offer “the finest writing, directing and acting that each country has to be offer”, and are “award-winning or already critically acclaimed”. In November 2018, at the “Watching the Transnational Detectives: Showcasing Identity and Internationalism on British Television” conference at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, Walter Iuzzolino and Jo McGrath sat down with Dr Helena Chadderton and Dr Rachel Haworth from the University of Hull and talked about their experiences of establishing Walter Presents. This article relates that conversation.