Overview
- The six-part series premieres Oct. 5 at 9/8c on PBS Masterpiece and streams on PBS platforms and the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel.
- Banijay Rights has sold the show to ABC Australia, Wowow Japan, Sky Free New Zealand, VRT Belgium, HRT Croatia and SIA Tet Latvia ahead of Mipcom.
- Benjamin Wainwright plays a contemporary, younger Jules Maigret whose measured, humane policing anchors stories that also explore his marriage to Louise (Stefanie Martini).
- Season 1 unfolds as three two-part mysteries set in present-day Paris, with Budapest standing in for the city due to 2024 Olympic filming constraints.
- Executive producer-writer Patrick Harbinson adapts Simenon’s novels for today, as Wainwright avoids past portrayals, forgoes smoking, and carries his late father’s pipe as a character touch.