{"id":6258,"date":"2016-06-20T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T14:59:41","slug":"more-maigret-for-itv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/","title":{"rendered":"More Maigret for ITV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">LONDON: ITV has given the go-ahead to two additional films starring Rowan Atkinson as the French fictional detective Jules Maigret from the books by\u00a0Georges Simenon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Maigret Sets a Trap<\/em> aired on the British broadcaster earlier this year and landed a 28-percent share with 7.2 million viewers. <em>Maigret&#8217;s Dead Man\u00a0<\/em>has already been filmed and will air on ITV later this year. Next up will be\u00a0<em>Night At The Crossroads<\/em>, followed by <em>Maigret in Montmartre.<\/em>\u00a0Georges Simenon\u2019s son John\u00a0is executive producing the films, which follow Maigret solving crimes in 1950s Paris. Thompson &amp; Thompson Productions and Georges Simenon Limited are producing the 120-minute TV movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute privilege to commission two further Maigret films for ITV,\u201d said Victoria Fea, controller of drama at ITV. &#8220;We were thrilled to welcome Rowan Atkinson to the channel as Maigret. His superb performance and the filmic execution from the production team ensured the audience greatly appreciated the first Maigret film, which aired earlier this year.\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">BBC Worldwide handles the rights to the Maigret titles outside of the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: ITV has given the go-ahead to two additional films starring Rowan Atkinson as the French fictional detective Jules Maigret from the books by Georges Simenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":6259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[128,321,223],"class_list":["post-6258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-worldwide","tag-itv","tag-maigret","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More Maigret for ITV - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Maigret for ITV - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON: ITV has given the go-ahead to two additional films starring Rowan Atkinson as the French fictional detective Jules Maigret from the books by Georges Simenon.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-20T14:49:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-20T14:59:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2015\/09\/ITV-Maigret-616.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/\",\"name\":\"More Maigret for ITV - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-20T14:49:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-20T14:59:41+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/more-maigret-for-itv\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"More Maigret for ITV\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. 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