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Media Release: Thursday, December 17, 2015

Presto in January

True Detective season 1 starts its investigation on Presto along with new seasons of Ray Donovan, Penny Dreadful and
The Americans

Presto today announced key programming set to kick off the New Year starting with the critically acclaimed True Detective (season 1). The edge-of-your-seat anthology crime drama is a Presto SVOD exclusive and centres on the lives of Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin “Rust” Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin “Marty” Hart (Woody Harrelson) and follows a seventeen-year journey of flashbacks where the two detectives recount a murder. With the perpetrator still at large, it’s a race against time for these two men to piece things together and stop the cycle.

Also streaming in January, is the third season of tough guy drama, Ray Donovan starring Liev Schreiber, as the title character. Ray is a “fixer” for L.A.’s elite celebrities, athletes and business moguls when they need to make their problems disappear. But no amount of money can mask Ray’s past, which continues to haunt him and threatens to destroy everything he has built for himself.

Many people are familiar with the classic tales of Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray. Penny Dreadful brings those and other characters into a new light by exploring their origin stories in this psychological thriller that takes place in the dark corners of Victorian London. Presto adds season 2 from January.

Finally, The Americans introduces viewers to Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, two KGB spies in an arranged marriage who are posing as Americans during the 1980s. The complex marriage becomes more complicated each day as the Cold War escalates, especially with the arrival of the Jennings’ new neighbor, an FBI agent who is part of a new division tasked with fighting foreign agents.

TV programming arriving on Presto in January includes:

· True Detective – season 1 (1 Jan)
· Ray Donovan – seasons 1-3 (2 Jan)
· Louis Theroux: LA Story + City of Dogs (2 Jan)
· Bitten S2 – seasons 1-2 (11 Jan)
· Penny Dreadful – seasons 1-2 (13 Jan)
· Dora the Explorer – seasons 1-7 (15 Jan)
· Sid the Science Kid – season 1 (15 Jan)
· The Wubbulous World of Dr.Seuss (15 Jan)
· Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom (15 Jan)
· Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures (15 Jan)
· Ocean Girl – season 1-4 (15 Jan)
· Invisible Network of Kids – season 1 (15 Jan)
· Marsupilami – season 1 (15 Jan)
· Jamie’s Got Tentacles – season 1 (15 Jan)
· Stepping Up (15 Jan)
· Pretty Tough (15 Jan)
· Hollywood is like High School with Money (15 Jan)
· Young Dracula – seasons 1-2 (15 Jan)
· My Side of the Sky (15 Jan)
· First Day (15 Jan)
· Family Biz (15 Jan)
· Half Moon Investigations (15 Jan)
· Scout’s Safari (15 Jan)
· The Assistants (15 Jan)
· Spongebob Squarepants – seasons 1-8 (22 Jan)
· The Americans – seasons 1-2 (31 Jan)

Key movies joining Presto in January:

· Lifted (1 Jan)
· Your Friend the Rat (1 Jan)
· Adventures Of Priscilla (1 Jan)
· Can’t Stop The Music (1 Jan)
· Cast Away (1 Jan)
· The Wedding Planner (1 Jan)
· Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (2 Jan)
· Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (2 Jan)
· Aladdin And The King Of Thieves (2 Jan)
· Aladdin (2 Jan)
· The Return Of Jafar (2 Jan)
· That Sugar Film (2 Jan)
· Little Women (2 Jan)
· Red Dawn (3 Jan)
· Spice World (3 Jan)
· Dior And I (3 Jan)
· Driving Miss Daisy (3 Jan)
· Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (3 Jan)
· Shakespeare In Love (3 Jan)
· The Hunt For Red October (3 Jan)
· The Towering Inferno (4 Jan)
· The Terminator (6 Jan)
· Mary Poppins (6 Jan)
· Better Living Through Chemistry (6 Jan)
· Body Of Evidence (6 Jan)
· Dazed And Confused (7 Jan)
· College Road Trip (7 Jan)
· The Homesman (7 Jan)
· Tomorrow, When The War Began (8 Jan)
· Zombieland (8 Jan)
· Small Soldiers (8 Jan)
· 54 (8 Jan)
· Gothika (8 Jan)
· Hair (9 Jan)
· The Theory Of Everything (9 Jan)
· The Cobbler (9 Jan)
· Glitter (9 Jan)
· Veronica Guerin (9 Jan)
· Sahara (10 Jan)
· Big Fish (10 Jan)
· Fame (10 Jan)
· Mansfield Park (10 Jan)
· Rumble In The Bronx (11 Jan)
· Midnight Cowboy (11 Jan)
· Getting Even With Dad (12 Jan)
· Highlander (15 Jan)
· Accepted (15 Jan)
· Boys And Girls (15 Jan)
· The Whole Nine Yards (16 Jan)
· Selma (16 Jan)
· The Captive (16 Jan)
· Thelma & Louise (16 Jan)
· The Whole Ten Yards (17 Jan)
· The Last Of The Mohicans (17 Jan)
· Project Almanac (17 Jan)
· Grease 2 (17 Jan)
· Dadnapped (18 Jan)
· Beauty Shop (19 Jan)
· Buffalo Dreams (19 Jan)
· Barbershop (20 Jan)
· To Be Or Not To Be (21 Jan)
· Leviathan (21 Jan)
· Homeward Bound II: Lost In San Francisco (22 Jan)
· Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (22 Jan)
· Space Chimps (22 Jan)
· I Love You, Beth Cooper (22 Jan)
· Arachnophobia (22 Jan)
· Seventh Son (23 Jan)
· District 9 (24 Jan)
· Josie And The Pussycats (24 Jan)
· Ali (24 Jan)
· No Way Out (24 Jan)
· Stealth (26 Jan)
· Crackerjack – Australia Day (26 Jan)
· Kinky Boots (27 Jan)
· The Opposite Sex And How To Live With Them (27 Jan)
· Back To School (28 Jan)
· The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby (28 Jan)
· Treasure Planet (29 Jan)
· A Mighty Heart (29 Jan)
· Finders Keepers (29 Jan)
· Phantoms (29 Jan)
· Max Payne (30 Jan)
· Escape To Witch Mountain (30 Jan)
· Return From Witch Mountain(30 Jan)
· SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water (30 Jan)
· The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (30 Jan)
· Far From Heaven (30 Jan)
· Still Alice (30 Jan)
· The Shipping News (30 Jan)
· Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (30 Jan)
· Before I Go To Sleep (30 Jan)
· The Art Of War (31 Jan)

Presto’s curated special collections for January include:

‘TV’s Leading Ladies’
· Sex and the City
· Nurse Jackie
· Veep
· Weeds
· Mildred Pierce
· The Good Wife
· Winners and Losers
· All Saints
· The Good Wife
· A Place To Call Home
· Wentworth
· Parks And Recreation
· 30 Rock

‘Top Aussie TV for Australia Day’
· We Can Be Heroes
· Frontline
· Bogan Hunters
· Angry Boys
· Upper Middle Bogan
· Ja’mie: Private School Girl
· Wentworth
· Let’s talk About
· The Moody’s
· Rake
· Summer Heights High

‘Movies So Bad They’re Good’
· Showgirls
· Battlefield Earth
· Gigli
· Disaster Movie
· Year One
· The Happening
· Glitter
‘A Taste of Tarantino’
· From Dusk Till Dawn
· Pulp Fiction
· Jackie Brown
· Kill Bill Vol. 1
· Kill Bill Vol. 2
· Sin City

For consumers yet to subscribe, Presto is currently offering new customers a one month free trial^ of the Presto Entertainment bundle subscription, providing access to Presto’s full TV and movie libraries.

http://www.presto.com.au/

-Brad