The primary modern TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved Jules Maigret detective novels is coming to PBS Masterpiece. The community introduced its new sequence Maigret, together with the official listing of stars, on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. The Jules Maigret sequence is the second best-selling detective sequence ever, behind solely Sherlock Holmes. And its fashionable adaptation is coming this fall.
Primarily based on the beloved books concerning the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, Maigret will star Belgravia‘s Benjamin Wainwright within the titular position with Stefanie Martini as Jules’ spouse, Madame Louise Maigret (above).
Learn on for all the main points on the brand new detective sequence, together with extra stars and a trailer.
When does PBS’ Maigret premiere?
The Maigret sequence premiere airs Sunday, October 5, at 9/8c on PBS. There can be six episodes in Season 1. Faye Gilbert directs Episodes 3 and 4, and David Evans directs Episodes 5 and 6. Episodes air weekly.
Right here’s the outline for Maigret Episode 1 from PBS: “Maigret is investigating a sequence of financial institution robberies which were plaguing Paris. He ignores his superior’s orders and turns his consideration to the brutal homicide of a burglar, Honoré Cuendet. His determination to juggle each circumstances places his profession in jeopardy, however he continues to hunt justice for the slain thief. Simply as he’s closing in on Cuendet’s killers, the financial institution robbers strike once more.”
“Chief Inspector Maigret and his crew of maverick however loyal detectives, ‘Les Maigrets,’ clear up a sequence of complicated crimes in Paris,” the outline continues. “Maigret’s unconventional strategies and distinctive sense of justice put him at odds together with his superiors and the judicial system he’s imagined to characterize. Maigret should outwit a few of Paris’s most crafty and violent criminals, whereas coping with his personal troubled previous.”
What’s PBS’ Maigret about?
Patrick Harbinson (Homeland, 24, The Tower) serves as lead author and govt producer on behalf of Windhover Movies and can direct the primary two episodes of the sequence. Colin Callender and David Stern govt produce for Playground, the Golden Globe and BAFTA award profitable manufacturing firm behind upcoming sequence Wolf Corridor: The Mirror and the Mild for BBC/Masterpiece and Sky dramedy Small City, Huge Story.
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific writer Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realized Paris not usually seen on digicam that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxurious motels and mansions to native bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally prison.
Harbinson’s adaptation reframes Maigret as an unconventional younger detective with one thing to show, a rising star within the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny capability to get underneath the pores and skin of the criminals he’s chasing and a matchless data of Paris and its inhabitants. Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret, Maigret heads the elite police unit generally known as La Crim, accountable for investigating all critical crime in and round Paris.
“‘To know and to not decide’: Maigret strives above all to unravel our motivations,” PBS’ announcement reads. “He’s good at this not as a result of he’s a genius, or has particular strategies, however as a result of he listens — he doesn’t clear up crimes a lot as he solves folks.”
Is there a trailer for PBS’ Maigret?
Sure. Wainwright’s detective is launched within the Maigret trailer beneath. “My job is to know, not decide,” he declares, ominously including later, “Dangerous issues had been accomplished right here” and “You as soon as stated I had peace to make. Perhaps that is how I do it.” Maigret is warned that he’s making “harmful” errors in his line of labor.
Which Jules Maigret books is PBS’ Maigret primarily based on?
Playground has licensed the English-speaking rights to the whole lot of the sequence, consisting of 75 novels and 28 quick tales, so the present might pull from that whole library of literary goodness.
Who’s within the PBS Maigret forged?
Becoming a member of Wainwright and Martini are Blake Harrison, Reda Elazouar, Kerrie Hayes, Shaniqua Okwok, and Rob Kazinsky, who make up the “Les Maigrets,” Maigret’s loyal crew of detectives, with Nathalie Armin set to play Prosecutor Mathilde Kernavel.
Are there different Jules Maigret TV exhibits and films? Who has performed Maigret?
This character has been tailored a number of instances earlier than. Gérard Depardieu performed the detective in a 2022 film. Rowan Atkinson took on the position in a 2016 sequence for 2 seasons. The late Michael Gambon, Rupert Davies, and Bruno Cremer have additionally performed the character.
Maigret, Collection Premiere, Sunday, October 5, 9/8c, PBS