Rowan Atkinson says he’s lightened Maigret sleuth up for his third instalment

Erasing every trace of the slapstick he’s famed for with his comedy characters Mr Bean and Edmund Blackadder to play French detective Maigret left Rowan Atkinson fearing he might just render the pipe-smoking Parisian sleuth too bland.

So he promised to let Maigret ‘off the leash, to let him out a bit’ if his first two outings, which aired at Easter and Christmas last year, were well received and he decided he wanted to make more.

Well, they were, and now Rowan’s completed two more murder mysteries adapted from Georges Simenon’s classic novels – Maigret’s Night At The Crossroads, which airs on Easter Monday, and Maigret In Montmartre – and he says we’ll see a very different detective.

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