First picture released from ITV’s Maigret with Rowan Atkinson as lead; starts filming

Let’s face it – when the BBC began a new partnership with Agatha Christie’s estate and Poirot finished (as well as Foyle’s War), ITV needed a vintage-era detective series. So when it announced it had cast Rowan Atkinson as the venerable Maigret, it many ways it wasn’t too much of a surprise. There hasn’t been…

UKTV acquires Criminal Minds spin-off and Quantico for UK

Gary Sinise. You have to love Gary Sinise. He plays uptight very well, and in CSI: New York he was so good as the, well, uptight head of the NYC’s CSI division. So it’s great to see him back in a starring role, and what’s even greater is that British network UKTV is bringing his…