Top: JAMIE BAMBER, ZAHRA AHMADI & KRIS MARSHALL, PHIL DANIELS. Bottom: YASMINE AKRAM, MICHELLE BONNARD, RUTH MADOC
After yesterday’s reveal that ‘Death In Paradise’ spin-off, ‘Beyond Paradise‘, would premiere later this month the BBC has now revealed the guest cast who will be joining Kris Marshall (DI Humphrey Goodman) and Sally Bretton (Martha Lloyd) in the new series.
‘Beyond Paradise’ follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée Martha Lloyd after their nail-biting will-they-won’t-they romance reached its emotional finale in Saint Marie in 2017. Viewers were delighted when Humphrey took control of his destiny and followed Martha back to London to declare his undying love for her.
A new adventure awaits as we find them arriving in Shipton Abbott, Martha’s hometown near the beautiful Devonshire coast, having left London. As they embark on their new life, the couple are quickly thrown in at the deep end as Martha sets out to pursue her dream of running her own restaurant and Humphrey joins the local police force. Quickly making an impression on the somewhat eclectic team; DS Esther Williams, PC Kelby Hartford and Margo Martins, Humphrey sets out to help crack a host of baffling cases, with the Shipton Abbott squad witnessing a whole new approach to police work…
As shows like this always need weekly guest stars, the BBC has pulled together an impressive list of names who will be part of the new drama. They include:
Jamie Bamber (‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Law & Order UK’) as a face from Martha’s past who looks like he’s here to stay, Phil Daniels (‘Quadrophenia’, ‘Rock & Chips’), Jade Harrison (‘The Stranger’), Montserrat Lombard (‘Rare Beast’), Chris Jenks (‘Sex Education’), Yasmine Akram (‘Bad Sisters’), Rufus Jones (‘Home’), Samantha Spiro (‘Babs’), Davood Ghadami (‘EastEnders’), Dan Mersh (‘The Death of Stalin’), David Reed (‘Endeavour’), Ella Kenion (‘The Green Green Grass’), John Macneill (‘His Dark Materials’), Jaye Jacobs (‘Holby City’), John Hollingworth (‘1917’), Ingrid Oliver (‘The Hustle’), Peter De Jersey (‘Broadchurch’), Edward Rowe (‘Enys Men’), Kerry Howard (‘Him & Her’), Pooky Quesnel (‘Ralph & Katie’), Alan Williams (‘Chernobyl’), Nina Singh (‘The Lazarus Project’), Annette Badland (‘Bergerac’), Hannah Traylen (‘Boiling Point’), Lily Frazer (‘Ladhood’) and Ruth Madoc (‘Hi-di-Hi’).
Each week the team will face a new crime with a unique puzzle at its heart. The not-so-sleepy town of Shipton Abbott will be rocked by an entire family disappearing without a trace, a woman claiming she was attacked by a suspect from the seventeenth century, the robbery of a highly prized painting, a body bizarrely discovered in a crop circle and a serial arsonist with a seeming distaste for local businesses.
As Humphrey gets stuck into his new job, he and Martha must also navigate life’s ups and downs, as faces from the past, the decisions they make and challenges of setting up life in a new town put their relationship to the ultimate test.
Alongside Marshall and Bretton, the regular cast also stars Zahra Ahmadi (DS Esther Williams), Dylan Llewellyn (PC Kelby Hartford), Felicity Montagu (office support Margo Martins) and Barbara Flynn (Anne Lloyd).
Created by Robert Thorogood and Tony Jordan, ‘Beyond Paradise’ is a co-commission between the BBC and BritBox International and is produced by Red Planet Pictures, part of the Asacha Media Group. Founder and Executive Chairman of Red Planet Pictures, Jordan, acts as showrunner, leading a team of writers – Amy Guyler, Ian Kershaw, Chloë Mi Lin Ewart – working across the 6 episode series. Tony Jordan, Tim Key and Belinda Campbell are executive producers for Red Planet Pictures, and Diederick Santer and Tommy Bulfin are executive producers for BritBox International and BBC respectively.
The series is produced by Lindsay Hughes, directed by Sandy Johnson and Matt Carter. BBC Studios brokered the co-production deal with Britbox International and handle international distribution.
‘Beyond Paradise‘ Season 1 premieres Friday, 24 February 2023 on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK. It will also be available on BritBox International outside of the UK and Ireland.
