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'Maigret' Officially Renewed at PBS for Season 2
PBS Masterpiece has renewed 'Maigret' for a second season, and filming is already underway.
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'The Gold' Premieres with a 24k Episode in “To Be a King”
The Brink's-Mat gold heist was one of the defining crimes of the late 20th century in the U.K. Twenty-six million pounds in gold bullion was stolen from a Heathrow airport warehouse. Although many were charged and some served jail time, four of the six thieves who carried
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PBS Introduces an Altogether Different Sort of 'Maigret'
Jules Maigret has been a fixture on screens large and small since writer Georges Simenon introduced him to the world in 1931's Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett). Moreover, actors who have played the role tended to keep to Simenon's description of the Parisian
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First Look at 'Maigret' Reboot Reveals The New Detective
One of the most challenging decisions when remaking a once-popular series that has fallen by the wayside is whether or not to update it to the modern era, especially when the series in question was initially set in "contemporary times" when it was originally released. For some shows,
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'The Gold' Gets Royal with 'Victoria's Tom Hughes Joining Season 2
One of the biggest series of 2023 in the U.K. was the BBC series The Gold. Initially imagined as a limited series, the six-part small-screen dramatization of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery was a star-studded affair, full of PBS favorites, as is befitting of a show that retold the
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Masterpiece Orders 'Maigret' Remake, Based on the Georges Simenon Series
It's been nearly 30 years since the last episodic television adaptation of Maigret was launched. However, there was a time when the titular French detective from Georges Simenon's best-selling novels was a staple of European television. From 1960 to 2005, there were no less than eight
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'Prime Suspect: Tennison' Recap: Episode 3
Prime Suspect: Tennison ends with a bang and a whimper. But the bang was big enough to wonder what a Season 2 might have been. Gibbs: Looks like Tennison was right. Bradfield: I should congratulate her. Is she in Comms? Morgan: Oh no, she's in church sir. The
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'Prime Suspect: Tennison' Recap: Episode 2
Prime Suspect: Tennison continues this week with a pair of mysteries on separate tracks that have yet to intersect. Things have improved over the premiere, but there's something funny about the best parts of the episode. John: Mum's at home... making you a cake. Bentley: I
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'Prime Suspect: Tennison' Recap: Episode 1
Prime Suspect: Tennison arrives on PBS with a hope of rebooting (or at least telling the origin story behind) the original 1990s program. But why does this show feel so irrelevant in 2017? DI Bradfield: Nervous? WPC Tennison: A bit. Nothing like getting thrown in the deep end. When Prime