Maigret is a 2025 British television series based on the Jules Maigret novels by Georges Simenon, starring Benjamin Wainwright as the detective Maigret. It premiered on PBS Masterpiece in the United States on 5 October 2025, and on ABC Television and ABC iview on 7 November 2025 in Australia. A United Kingdom release date is yet to be announced.
Premise
Jules Maigret is a rising young detective in the Paris Police Judiciaire, who heads La Crim, the serious crime unit.
Unlike previous adaptations, the series is set in the present day.
Cast
Main
- Benjamin Wainwright as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, an unconventional young detective rising up the ranks of the Paris Police Judiciaire who cares about getting the right results, not a result
- Stefanie Martini as Louise Maigret, Maigret's wife and confidante, a young psychiatric nurse.
- Nathalie Armin as Prosecutor Mathilde Kernavel, Maigret's more by-the-book, hierarchy-minded superior from the Ministry of Justice.
- Reda Elazouar as Detective Karim LaPointe, the youngest member of Maigret's team, a computer expert.
- Blake Harrison as Sergeant Joseph Torrence, a snarky, old-school member of Maigret's team who has a secret relationship with Janvier.
- Kerrie Hayes as Sergeant Andrea Lucas, Maigret's tough, no-nonsense right-hand woman.
- Shaniqua Okwok as Detective Berthe Janvier, a brash, confident policewoman who is one of the newer additions to Maigret's team and has a secret relationship with Torrence.
- Rob Kazinsky as Inspector Justin Cavre, a well-educated, hard-working detective who resents Maigret for getting the Chief Inspector position he feels he deserved.
Recurring
- James Northcote as Joseph Moers, an unflappable young lab technician.
- Rachel Shelley as La Comtesse Sophie de Saint-Fiacre, a countess who Fumal was attempting to force out of her estate, and Maigret's childhood crush.
- Ralph Berkin as Evariste Maigret, Maigret's father, an estate manager in Saint-Fiacre who died years prior to the series, and whose pipe Maigret keeps as a keepsake.
- Anders Grundberg as young Jules Maigret.
Notable guests
- Jack Deam as Inspector Aristide Foulon, an eccentric friend and coworker of Maigret's.
- Katie McGrath as Rosalie Fernand, the wife of incarcerated thief Gustave Fernand.
- Danny Kirrane as Ferdinand Fumal, a billionaire who grew up with Maigret who hires him to protect him against death threats, despite his apparent resentment of Maigret.
- Sam Troughton as Colonel ÃÂmile Danet, a shady French government official.
- Freddy Carter as Maurice de Saint-Fiacre, Sophie's son, an art critic mixed up in criminal matters.
- Enzo Cilenti as Edmond Batille, the father of a murdered youth.
- Nigel Lindsay as Sebastian Gautier, Sophie's shady estate manager.
Production
In 2021, the estate of Georges Simenon made a co-production and licensing deal with Playground Entertainment and Red Arrow Studios to produce a new English-language series of Simenon's Maigret novels, with the option extending to the entire canon. By 2024, Red Arrow were no longer involved with the production.
In September 2024, the main cast and creative team were revealed, along with the news that production had commenced in Budapest, where several previous Maigret adaptations have been shot. The six-episode series airs on PBS under their "Masterpiece Mystery" banner, with global distribution handled by Banijay Rights.
, development on a second series was under way in Budapest.
Broadcast
Maigret premiered on 5 October 2025 in the United States, on PBS Masterpiece. After being acquired by Banijay Rights, Maigret premiered on ABC Television and ABC iview in Australia on 7 November 2025.
Reception
John Anderson, writing in The Wall Street Journal, called the series "engaging", and praised the modernisation of the character as well as Wainwright's performance.
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