Maigret Archives

As Benjamin Wainwright is front and center as the latest actor to play the legendary Chief Inspector Jules Maigret in the PBS Masterpiece series Maigret, he obviously faces a tall task stepping into the shoes of some of the greats that are his predecessors, like Rupert Davies, Bruno Cremer, Richard Harris, Michael Gambon, and Rowan[...]

When Patrick Harbinson adapted Maigret for modern audiences, there was the obvious scrutiny from creative changes to the setting, right down to the actor cast in the title role, something Doctor Who fans are also grossly familiar with As the younger Benjamin Wainwright (The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim) was cast,[...]

Any time you adapt something as beloved as the procedural crime drama franchise as Maigret, it always comes with its set of challenges Creator and showrunner Patrick Harbinson decided to take a dramatically different approach to the well-established figure often depicted at the top of the police force and middle aged by casting Benjamin Wainwright[...]

A new Inspector Maigret series based on the novels of Georges Simenon is in development, four years after ITV cancelled the last version that starred Rowan Atkinson in 2017 The new show will be produced by Colin Callender's BAFTA-winning production company Playground Entertainment, which also produces the new version of All Creatures Great and Small which[...]