Rowan Atkinson of Mr. Bean and Johnny English fame has signed on to play the protagonist of Belgian author Georges Simenon’s iconic Jules Maigret detective novels in two feature-length films for the U ...

Cable network Ovation has headed back to Europe for its latest drama – the Rowan Atkinson-fronted Maigret. The broadcaster, which had success with French drama Versailles and British thriller Riviera, ...

Although it remains near impossible to watch Rowan Atkinson in any kind of church scene without immediately thinking of his scene-stealer in ‘Four Weddings’, the comedic legend continues to impress ...

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Jules Maigret, the creation of Georges Simenon, is tall and heavy-set (no details of his facial features are never recorded), is almost always smoking one of his 15 pipes, and is a quiet, ponderous ...

Rowan Atkinson plays it straight in ITV's Maigret - but he originally turned the project down. The Mr. Bean star admitted to press including Digital Spy that he had doubts about playing Georges ...

In the upcoming drama, Atkinson has the lead role as Georges Simenon's sleuth Jules Maigret - a French equivalent of Sherlock Homes. Atkinson joins an esteemed list of actors to have played Maigret, ...

Merritt Wever and Toni Collette hunt down a rapist in a new crime series on Netflix. And Rowan Atkinson plays Georges Simenon’s detective in “Maigret.” By Lauren Messman UNBELIEVABLE Stream on Netflix ...