The U.K. broadcaster unveils two films based on the novels from writer Georges Simenon with Mr Bean playing the fictional French detective. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ITV director of ...

Rowan Atkinson (Bean; Johnny English) will star as Georges Simenon’s iconic French detective Jules Maigret in two stand-alone feature-length dramas for ITV, Maigret Sets A Trap and Maigret’s Dead Man, ...

Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson failed to convince critics of his credentials as a heavyweight actor with his debut as the French detective Jules Maigret. Maigret Sets A Trap is the first in a pair of two ...

Rowan Atkinson is returning for a new film in the Maigret series, promising it will be “richer” than the character’s previous two outings. The Mr Bean star made his debut as French detective Jules ...

On the set of Maigret, Rowan Atkinson is looking serious. We’re in a dimly lit Parisian café and his face is nearly as shuttered as the room, brow set to gloomy, mouth chewing thoughtfully on an old ...

LONDON — Rowan Atkinson, best known for “Johnny English,” “Blackadder” and “Mr Bean,” is to play French detective Jules Maigret in two TV movies commissioned by U.K. commercial network ITV. The ...