While Mr. Selfridge has supposedly been renewed, BBC1 has pulled the plug on The Paradise. There won’t be a third season for the period drama.
The Paradise revolves around the people who work and shop at the first English department store. Set in 1875, castmembers have included Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham, Elaine Cassidy, Sarah Lancashire, Matthew McNulty, Peter Wight, David Hayman, Stephen Wight, Sonya Cassidy, Ruby Bentall, Finn Burridge, and Patrick Malahide.
Of the cancellation, a BBC spokesperson said, “We are incredibly proud to have made two successful series of period drama The Paradise for BBC1. However, in order to make room for new dramas to come through, The Paradise won’t be returning.”
The show airs on PBS here in the US and only the first season has been shown. That ended in November and there’s been no word of airing the second season yet.
What do you think? Have you seen The Paradise? Would you watch season two? Are you sorry it’s been cancelled?
I even think I like the Paradise more than Downton!
I am so disappointed to find that there will be no season 3 for The Paradise. With the appeal of Downton Abbey, Cranston, etc., I don’t understand why it would not be renewed. The Paradise is a magical production, and the wonderful characters and their individual stories are so engaging (more than Selfridge). It seems that there could be a wealth of stories still to come from this series. The actors are superb, and the sets and costumes are such eye candy. I would gladly give up a Breathless or Death Comes to Pemberley or Sherlock for more of The… Read more »
I so agree about Paradise being magical. It’s the fastest hour on TV and I miss it as soon as it’s over. Last night’s episode with Moray in tears and his being faithful to Denise even when he’s jealous of her……there are strong emotions and more to come IF the show would just continue.
Dear BBC, we are in desperate need of the third season of Paradise! And the fourth and the fifth for that matter! Hurry up please, can hardly wait to see more of it.
Will advise all my friends to watch as well.
If you want series 3 sign the petition to BBC to ask for it back! Trying to reach 10,000 and it’s at little 8,000 now!
https://www.change.org/p/bbc-we-want-series3
we want to see the paradise come back here in the us it was so great!!!!!
If you want series 3 sign the petition to BBC to ask for it back!
https://www.change.org/p/bbc-we-want-series3
The more I watch this show, the more I want to watch. Please make Season 3.
The Paradise is currently airing in the US on PBS. Cancelling a show that has made it overseas and goodness know how many other territories are playing it, yet the BBC in its esteemed wisdom (sarcasm here) to cancel the show before it’s out of the starting gate!
Unfair! Bad Business decision! The Paradise is now Paradise Lost- Why??????????
Love, love, love the Paradise! There’s so much that’s great! Some of the other stuff falls flat.
Breathless — watched one part of one episode and didn’t look back. Sherlok — guess it’s a guy thing —
Paradise is excellent acting, has a certain intrigue, compelling character relationships —
It’s very genuine and has a sweetness — no sappiness – that is missing in many programs.
I look forward to each episode of The Paradise, and am so sorry to learn that it is being cancelled. I do hope BBC reconsiders this decision.
Hello,
I LOVED “The Paradise” I am so very sad that it is not returning for a third season. Please reconsider, I love PBS and watch faithfully, I found The Paradise so enchanting and romantic.
If you can’ at least air the second season.
Sincerely,
Debbie
Was so very much hoping for a season three.
I would watch season two loved this show sorry it had to end
I adore The Paradise as well! Please use the link below to write a comment to BBC asking for the return on this great series 🙂
https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/faqs/forms/?eid&id=O6MS2LPSRKUEDH4AESM2BAQPNE&mid&uid=115890137
The reason given by the BBC for canceling The Paradise–that time was needed “to make room for new dramas”–strikes me as disingenuous, if not altogether absurd. If their latest, Breathless, like that ridiculous and embarrassing homage to a young illiterate audience, Sherlock (which I have no doubt has caused Conan Doyle to bore his way back to Edinburgh by now), is an example of one of these “new dramas,” I dare say the BBC is whoring for a younger viewership. The medical drama, Breathless, no more looks and feels like the early 1960s than a failed Las Vegas Elvis impersonator.… Read more »
I’m so afraid that Season 2 will leave us in the middle of something and we’ll never know the solution. Is there someone somewhere to whom we can write to really get the attention we need to keep this show on? I like Downton Abbey but LOVE Paradise. It has everything needed for a good show with so very many plot possibilities.
Isn’t downton abbey on its last season?? So there is room for something new. To bad I really adore this new series
It is a huge mistake to cancel “The Paradise” The actors are great, settings are lovely, good script. Wrong choice
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Please, please do not cancel Paradise. I very much look forward to watching it every Sunday night in the U.S. Fantastic. Do not like Sherlock. Melba D. Cox
I love The Paradise. It’s a big mistake by BBC to cancel such a great show. I’m so disappointed!!!