NEW SERIES IN PRODUCTION!

Maigret, based on the novels by Georges Simenon, is coming to MASTERPICE Mystery! The first contemporary television adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret has started production in Budapest.

Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific author Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realized Paris not often seen on camera that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal.

Patrick Harbinson’s adaptation reframes Maigret as an unconventional young detective with something to prove, a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants. Faithfully and lovingly married to Madame Maigret, Maigret heads the elite police unit known as La Crim, responsible for investigating all serious crime in and around Paris.

Featuring Benjamin Wainwright as Inspector Jules Maigret and Stefanie Martini as Madame Louise Maigret, the cast also includes Nathalie Armin, Kerrie Hayes, Blake Harrison, Shaniqua Okwok, Reda Elazouar and Rob Kanzinsky, among others.

The Jules Maigret series is the second best-selling detective series ever, behind only Sherlock Holmes. Production company Playground licensed from Georges Simenon Limited the English speaking rights to the entirety of the series, consisting of 75 novels and 28 short stories. Simenon’s entirely singular body of work, which includes a wider library of novels, reportages, photographs and other  nonfiction, is among the most compelling in the global canon.

MASTERPIECE has been essential Sunday night viewing for more than 50 years thanks to the financial support of our viewers. We are excited to add Maigret to the long list of Emmy and Peabody Award winning series available on Alabama Public Television.