'Beyond Paradise's Season 2 Trailer Takes Us Back to Shipton Abbott

Season 2 of Beyond Paradise, the Kris Marshall-led spinoff of Death in Paradise, finally has landed a release date. Season 13 of Death in Paradise is currently airing in. the U.K. and streaming on BritBox in the U.S., and on the same day it concludes in each country, the second season of the spinoff will kick off, making the two shows a back-to-back run in both countries.

The series is a bit of an oddity, as it is set in the U.K. in the fictional town of Shipton Abbott, on the Devon Coast, and is called "Paradise" in the title, due to being part of what the BBC is calling the "Paraverse." However, there's no island, there's no beaches, there's no actual paradise, it's just a show set in the U.K., like any other British police procedural. (Albeit in a very tony, expensive area where the houses cost an arm and a leg.) But fans of the series love it, and considering the lead, DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall), never loved Saint-Marie (the real paradise); perhaps it's just that paradise is in the eye of the beholder.

One good thing about Shipton Abbott is that, despite its less paradise setting, there are fewer murderous cases for DI Goodman to solve, or at least, that was the case in Season 1. Hopefully that will remain the same for the new season as well.