“ Maigret ,” the latest TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s detective novels, has landed a raft of international sales deals for Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of TV giant Banijay Entertainment.

Ahead of Mipcom in Cannes and the show’s premiere on Masterpiece Mystery! on PBS in the U.S. on Oct. 5, the six-part series has sold to ABC in Australia, plus Wowow in Japan, Sky Free in New Zealand, VRT in Belgium, HRT in Croatia, and SIA Tet in Latvia.

The new series reframes Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret as an unconventional young detective with something to prove and features Benjamin Wainwright (“Belgravia: The Next Chapter,” “Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim”) in the lead role and Stefanie Martini (“The Gold,” “Last Kingdom,” “Emerald City”) as Madame Louise

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