Colin Callender’s Playground will adapt Georges Simenon’s best-selling detective novels “Maigret” into a television series set to air in the U.S. on PBS under the “Masterpiece” banner. The adaptation ...

Translated by Abbas Agahi, the book has been brought out by Jahan-e Ketab Publishing House, based in Tehran, in the ‘Neqab’ (mask) series, which focuses on detective stories, Mehr reported. Originally ...

Rowan Atkinson (Bean; Johnny English) will star as Georges Simenon’s iconic French detective Jules Maigret in two stand-alone feature-length dramas for ITV, Maigret Sets A Trap and Maigret’s Dead Man, ...

Jahan-e Ketab Publishing House has published the book as a new title in its Neqab series, with a translation by Abbas Agahi, Mehr reported. “Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case” was in fact the name of a ...

"Maigret," premiering Sunday on PBS, is the fourth British series (plus one failed pilot) to be titled "Maigret," after its main character, Georges Simenon's Paris-based police detective. As I've ...

LONDON — BBC Worldwide has inked the first international sales on TV films “Maigret Sets a Trap” and “Maigret’s Dead Man,” in which Rowan Atkinson, the star of the “Mr Bean,” “Blackadder” and “Johnny ...

Cable network Ovation has headed back to Europe for its latest drama – the Rowan Atkinson-fronted Maigret. The broadcaster, which had success with French drama Versailles and British thriller Riviera, ...

In the upcoming drama, Atkinson has the lead role as Georges Simenon's sleuth Jules Maigret - a French equivalent of Sherlock Homes. Atkinson joins an esteemed list of actors to have played Maigret, ...

LONDON — BBC Worldwide has inked the first international sales on TV films “Maigret Sets a Trap” and “Maigret’s Dead Man,” in which Rowan Atkinson, the star of the “Mr Bean,” “Blackadder” and “Johnny ...