Past Paradise – prepare for a Shipton Abbot Christmas Eve

We return to Shipton Abbot for a festive particular that guarantees a tricky thriller. 

2023 noticed the growth of the “Paraverse” with Kris Marshall returning to the position of DI Humphrey Goodman.

Demise In Paradise‘s former detective swapped St. Marie for the South West, relocating to his fiancé’s childhood residence. Now, earlier than a second collection within the New 12 months, we’re prepared for a festive go to to Shipton Abbot.

Kris Marshall as Humphrey Goodman, Barbara Flynn as Anne Lloyd and Felicity Montagu as Margo Martins (Picture: BBC/Crimson Planet Footage/Joss Barratt)

Right here’s the synopsis

Because the countdown to Christmas begins, residents of Shipton Abbott are left shocked as a string of weird burglaries happen in a single day. When DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) and DS Esther Williams (Zahra Ahmadi) examine the break-ins, it quickly turns into clear that these aren’t any regular smash-and-grab circumstances. With a scarcity of proof to go on besides a mysterious pile of ash at every location, the staff are stumped…

To make issues worse, CS Charlie Woods (Jade Harrison) and Police HQ are respiratory down the necks of the small station staff to show their value. Feeling the stress, are the detectives capable of crack this baffling case, or is their beloved station susceptible to quickly dealing with closure?

Beyond Paradise Christmas Special 2023 - Sally Bretton as Martha (complete with Santa hat)

Sally Bretton as Martha (Picture: BBC/Crimson Planet Footage/Joss Barratt)

Again on the town, as Workplace Help Margo Martins (Felicity Montagu) decorates the station workplace, PC Kelby Hartford (Dylan Llewellyn) is tasked with babysitting a cheeky younger shoplifter (Isaac Vincent-Norgate), who apparently goes by the title of Rishi Sunak…

In the meantime, because the Christmas market will get the neighborhood into the festive spirit, Esther’s teenage daughter, Zoe (Melina Sinadinou), is lower than impressed as she’s made to work in Santa’s Grotto dressed as an elf. And elsewhere, an opportunity encounter provides Martha (Sally Bretton) meals for considered what the longer term might maintain for her and Humphrey…

Kris Marshall talks concerning the present being granted a Christmas Particular…

It’s an excellent honour to be granted a Christmas particular for what was, this 12 months, a brand new present. I actually really feel privileged – as I feel all of us do, as a result of normally it takes two or three collection to mattress in and to be granted a Christmas particular. To get that on the finish of our first collection was an actual boon for us.

The particular may be very Christmassy, unsurprisingly! It’s additionally very heart-warming, enjoyable, and has a recognisable storyline however with its personal distinctive spin on it. It has nice forged, it’s humorous and is one in all our greatest exhibits thus far. There’s lots to be enthusiastic about!

He additionally talks about filming Christmas in the course of the 12 months:

It was scorching. I do know quite a lot of the opposite forged needed to put on Christmassy, wintery clothes – like mittens and Christmas jumpers – however I maintained that Humphrey, as is his character, wouldn’t put on coats or jumpers. He simply wears the identical factor on a regular basis. So, I bought away with it a bit! Though I needed to act chilly, as a result of not sporting the nice and cozy clothes meant I needed to fake that it was chilly and I wasn’t sporting the sufficient clothes for it.

It was very fascinating filming in Looe, we filmed a Christmas market scene which is sort of a big a part of the episode, and it will need to have been 28 or 29 levels that day. We have been filming with faux snow and plenty of jingle bells, whereas actually twenty toes away there was folks on the seaside of their budgie smugglers filming us. It made for an fascinating dichotomy. As a result of it stays lighter longer in the summertime and will get darker earlier within the winter, quite a lot of our scenes have been at night time and we needed to movie very late, however you had this sort of weirdly good factor the place, when you’ve completed filming the Christmas episode, you could possibly then go to the seaside!

In the meantime Sally Bretton teases the present…

It’s so pretty. There may be music, Christmas markets and a heartwarming story on the centre of it.

The Past Paradise Christmas Particular airs on BBC One at 9pm on Christmas Eve.

You may catch the primary collection on BBC iPlayer, the place the particular may also seem on the twenty fourth December.