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Benjamin Wainwright to Star in Detective Series ‘Maigret’ From Playground Productions for PBS’ ‘Masterpiece’
Playground Productions is adapting Georges Simenon's detective novel series 'Maigret' into a series starring the Benjamin Wainwright.
“Patrick Harbinson’s brilliantly fresh take on this iconic IP is reflective of Playground’s ambition to expand our growing slate of contemporary returning dramas that speak to a global marketplace.” “Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, the invention of former crime reporter turned prolific author Georges Simenon, inhabits a vividly realized Paris not often seen on camera that takes us from the glitzy upper-class world of luxury hotels and mansions to local bourgeois bistros and bars and the underground haunts of the professionally criminal,” reads the series’ log line. It continues: “Patrick Harbinson’s adaptation reframes Maigret as an unconventional young detective with something to prove, a rising star in the Police Judiciaire, relentless in his investigations, with an uncanny ability to get under the skin of the criminals he is chasing and a matchless knowledge of Paris and its inhabitants.
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