Over the past few years Penguin have not only reinvigorated the Maigret series with their ongoing project to publish new editions of all 75 of them, re-translated by some of the top names in the ...

'Wolf Hall' producer Playground is behind the series, which will star Benjamin Wainwright as the French detective. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor Simenon published more than 100 novels and ...

New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the ...

Maigret, based on the novels by Georges Simenon, starts production; Playground produces for MASTERPIECE; Banijay Rights to handle worldwide distribution; Benjamin Wainwright and Stefanie Martini star ...

Patrick Harbinson, writer and executive producer of MASTERPIECE's Maigret, talks to Alan A. Mehanna about the venture of adapting Georges Simenon's classic best-selling novels to the modern world, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colin Callender’s Playground will adapt Georges Simenon’s best-selling detective novels “Maigret” into a television series set to ...

This week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris will kick off with the Tuesday night world premiere of Pascal Bonitzer’s “Auction” – a ripped-from-the-headlines ensemble drama set in the crosshairs of high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Los Angeles Times photo illustration; Photos via Playground Entertainment and Masterpiece, Getty Images) "Maigret," premiering ...

In late 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux president and publisher Mitzi Angel took the stage at the Center for Fiction’s annual gala and delivered an ode to what she called “a particular fancy of mine”: ...

Penguin Books, First Thus edition, 2014. Author Georges Simenon, 1969. MASTERPIECE on PBS aired an exciting new adaptation of author Georges Simenon’s iconic Maigret stories, bringing the legendary ...

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 ...