Why isn’t Return to Paradise on TV tonight? And where to watch the next episode of the BBC show
Return to Paradise may have only just gotten started, having only aired two episodes from season two, but the Death in Paradise spin off is already taking a mini hiatus and will not be on screens tonight.
The show, which usually airs Fridays at 8pm has been bumped for the Children in Need variety show, which will debut tonight from 7pm until 10pm on BBC One. This year’s show will see the return of Pudsey and pals and be hosted by Mel Giedroyc, Rochelle Humes, Vernon Kay, Paddy McGuinness, Lenny Rush and Big Zuu.
They will usher in a night full of “sketches, performances, and special moments” (via BBC), in hopes of raising money for vulnerable children and young people across the UK.
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Children in Need is a one-night only event which means that fans on the BBC’s murder-mystery show will return to paradise as regularly scheduled next week (Friday 21 November).
When viewers last picked up with Return to Paradise‘s DI Mackenzie Clarke (Anna Samson) she was wrestling with the idea of attending her ex-fiancé Glenn’s (Tai Hara) wedding and nursing the sting from her unrequited love, or so she presumes.
Ahead of the season’s debut, lead actors, Samson and Hara, shared that season two was about to up the ante for their characters’ “will-they-won’t-they” romance.
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Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Samson shed light on the direction of Mackenzie’s romance with Glenn for season two, when she said: “Both the ‘will they’ and the ‘won’t they’ get more extreme and they get closer to both of those extremes in this series.”
“The foundational storyline of the whole series is the lead-up to Glenn’s wedding. So there’s so many ‘will-they-won’t-they’ [moments].
“‘Will the wedding happen? Won’t the wedding happen? Will she stay?’ Those questions are alive the whole series and there’s a kind of rumbling build-up to [Daisy and Glenn’s wedding] that Mackenzie is aware of the whole time with more and more anxiety, and maybe the audience is more and more like, we are leading up to a wedding.”
Hara also told Digital Spy: “It just gets more entangled and confusing and complicated. Everything just goes deeper.”
Return to Paradise is available to watch on BBC on Fridays at 8pm and BBC iPlayer.
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