((exclusive)): Maigret

Unlike the glittering ballrooms of Agatha Christie or the foggy, violent back alleys of Dashiell Hammett, Maigret’s Paris is stiflingly real . It is the Paris of the working class: the dingy hotel on Rue des Acacias, the barge on the Canal Saint-Martin, the cramped concierge’s lodge, the brasseries with sticky floors.

"You heard about the rich businessman who was found dead at the Café de la Paix?" Lucien asked, his voice low and conspiratorial. Maigret

The latest adaptation of PBS Masterpiece is a bold, modern reimagining that trades the traditional "pipe and pipe-smoke" atmosphere for a faster-paced, contemporary Parisian procedural. While it maintains the core of Georges Simenon’s Unlike the glittering ballrooms of Agatha Christie or