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'Maigret' Officially Renewed at PBS for Season 2
PBS Masterpiece has renewed 'Maigret' for a second season, and filming is already underway.
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'Maigret' Fails to Multitask in Series Premiere, “The Lazy Burglar Part One”
Welcome to the latest on-screen incarnation of Maigret, the famous 1930s-era Parisian policeman, created by author Georges Simenon, played by British actor Benjamin Wainwright (Belgravia). If Wainwright's sculpted face and fluffy hair weren't enough to tell you we are dealing with a hot-cop version of Maigret,
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Everything British for PBS Viewers to Stream in October 2025
It's a dark time for your local PBS stations, as the full force of the Federal Government's defunding of public broadcasting, referred to as "rescission," will hit starting October 1, 2025. Already, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced it will shutter its operations,
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The 'Maigret' Trailer Introduces PBS's Newest Detective
Masterpiece has now lasted long enough as an entity that it has a catalog of old shows that once ran on PBS to work from and revive, such as Poldark (the original 1970s version aired on Masterpiece Theater) and All Creatures Great & Small (the original aired on PBS, but
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PBS Introduces an Altogether Different Sort of 'Maigret'
Jules Maigret has been a fixture on screens large and small since writer Georges Simenon introduced him to the world in 1931's Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett). Moreover, actors who have played the role tended to keep to Simenon's description of the Parisian
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PBS Sets 'Maigret' Remake Debut For Fall 2025
PBS has confirmed that the new contemporary set Maigret is officially joining the Fall 2025 Masterpiece lineup, giving the Benjamin Wainwright-starring remake of one of France's most famous detectives the plum premiere slot in October/November. Unlike The Gold (which was confirmed to debut on Sunday, October 5,
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First Look at 'Maigret' Reboot Reveals The New Detective
One of the most challenging decisions when remaking a once-popular series that has fallen by the wayside is whether or not to update it to the modern era, especially when the series in question was initially set in "contemporary times" when it was originally released. For some shows,
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Masterpiece Orders 'Maigret' Remake, Based on the Georges Simenon Series
It's been nearly 30 years since the last episodic television adaptation of Maigret was launched. However, there was a time when the titular French detective from Georges Simenon's best-selling novels was a staple of European television. From 1960 to 2005, there were no less than eight
Mystery
6 Classic British Mysteries You Probably Haven't Seen
Mysteries are a comfort genre. These are soothing stories of the intelligent detective taking a chaotic situation (usually murder most foul) and restoring order by puzzling out the whodunit. In troubled times, readers and viewers turn back to this genre because they want to see smart people using their intelligence