Get ready to spend Christmas in Paradise as the BBC announces the guest casts for the Beyond Paradise and Death in Paradise Christmas specials, airing on BBC iPlayer and BBC One this festive period.

 

In Shipton Abbott, the guest arrivals docking into the Devon seaside town for the holidays include Adrian Edmondson (Alien: Earth), James Lance (Ted Lasso) and Jonny Weldon (One Day). They’ll be joining Kris Marshall (DI Humphrey Goodman), Sally Bretton (Martha Lloyd), Zahra Ahmadi (DS Esther Williams), Dylan Llewellyn (PC Kelby Hartford), Barbara Flynn (Anne Lloyd), Felicity Montagu (Margo Martins), Jamie Bamber (Archie Hughes) and Melina Sinadinou (Zoe Williams) to serve up another helping of yuletide cheer.

 

When Esther discovers a man on the steps of the Shipton Abbott police station with no memory, holding a photo of Humphrey, the team gets to work to uncover who the mysterious man is while balancing a flurry of festive cases. At the same time, with the help of Anne, Zoe and a special guest, Martha races to pull off her secret plan while Kelby tries to help a mystery man trapped inside his snowman costume. But with an influx of unexpected visitors, a slew of holiday crimes to crack, and a heartwarming reunion on the line, can the team juggle it all and still be ready for a life-changing reveal? 

 

The Christmas special of Beyond Paradise is a co-commission between the BBC and BritBox and is produced by Red Planet Pictures. Tim Key and Tony Jordan are executive producers for Red Planet Pictures, with Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, Robert Schildhouse and Stephen Nye for BritBox, with Lindsay Hughes serving as producer. BBC Studios is handling global sales. All series of Beyond Paradise are available to watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and on BritBox in North America and Nordic markets.

 

Josie Lawrence (Outside Edge), Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead), Pearl Mackie (Doctor Who), James Baxter (Waterloo Road), Billy Harris (Ted Lasso), Oriana Charles and Alix Serman will be joining Don Gilet (DI Mervin Wilson), Shantol Jackson (DS Naomi Thomas), Ginny Holder (Officer Darlene Curtis), Shaquille Ali-Yebuah (Officer Sebastian Rose) and Élizabeth Bourgine (Catherine Bordey) for Christmas in the Caribbean as they head to Saint Marie and Swindon…

 

The office Christmas party of a lifetime takes a dark turn when four co-workers wake up to find a stranger dead in the pool of their Caribbean villa. DI Mervin Wilson and the team identify the murder weapon, but they’re left baffled when they find that it was locked in a drawer when the murder took place... thousands of miles away from the crime scene, in Swindon! Stuck in Saint Marie, the team calls on the help of a familiar face to crack the case. Meanwhile, Mervin’s anxiously waiting to hear back from his newly discovered brother, which prevents him from embracing Saint Marie's Christmas celebrations. Can Mervin resolve his family situation and get into the festive spirit – for the sake of his team and the island?