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 first contemporary TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved Jules Maigret detective novels is coming to PBS ... The Jules Maigret series is the second best-selling detective series ever ...
Series has licensed the English language rights to all of Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret books, the second highest-selling detective novels ever after Sherlock Holmes.