Maigret (2025 TV series)

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.

Jules Maigret is a rising young detective in the Paris Police Judiciaire, who heads La Crim, the serious crime unit.^[1]

Unlike previous adaptations, the series will be set in the present day.^[2]

• 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^[3]
• 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 often clashes 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.
• 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.

• 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 Maigret's father, who died years prior to the series, and whose pipe Maigret keeps as a keepsake.
• Anders Grundberg as young Jules Maigret.

• 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 Émile 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.

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.^[4] By 2024, Red Arrow were no longer involved with the production.^[5]

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.^[6]

As of July 2025, development on a second series was under way in Budapest.^[7]

Maigret premiered on 5 October 2025 in the United States, on PBS Masterpiece.^[8] After being acquired by Banijay Rights,^[9] Maigret premiered on ABC Television and ABC iview in Australia on 7 November 2025.^[10]

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.^[11]

• Maigret at IMDb