{"id":16535,"date":"2022-06-07T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1656952"},"modified":"2022-06-07T01:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T23:19:27","slug":"first-look-at-death-in-paradise-christmas-special-as-production-begins","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/first-look-at-death-in-paradise-christmas-special-as-production-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Death in Paradise Christmas special as production begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 07 June 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The BBC has shared a first-look at <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/death-in-paradise-season-12-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Death in Paradise<\/a>\u2018s 2022 Christmas special as filming begins in Guadeloupe.<\/p>\n<p>The long-running detective drama, which aired its 11th season earlier this year, will return at Christmas with a festive special, as fans find out how Commissioner Selwyn Patterson deals with the cliffhanger ending from the last episode.<\/p>\n<p>Ralf Little will be reprising his role as Neville Parker, while Don Warrington (Patterson), \u00c9lizabeth Bourgine (Catherine Bordey), Tahj Miles (Marlon Pryce), Shantol Jackson (Naomi Thomas) and Ginny Holder (Darlene Curtis) are confirmed to appear in the special.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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title=\"&quot;&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Commissioner Selwyn Patterson (Don Warrington) and Maggie Harper (Orla Brady) in Death in Paradise<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe had been wanting to do a Death in Paradise Christmas special for years and so to be starting production on our second one this year is brilliant,\u201d executive producer Tim Key said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a fantastic story which comes loaded with all the mystery, intrigue and surprise that our fans love to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once filming on the Christmas special has been completed, production will continue into season 12, the BBC has announced.<\/p> <p>In the season 11 finale, Commissioner Selwyn was met by his former lover Maggie Harper (Orla Brady), who returned to Saint Marie to tell him that she still had feelings for him and that her daughter Andrina was actually fathered by him and not her late husband.<\/p>\n<p>The last season also saw Jos\u00e9phine Jobert \u2013 who plays DS Florence Cassell \u2013 leave the show as her character set off on an <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/death-in-paradise-episode-4-exclusive-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">undercover mission in Jamaica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;editor-content\" mb-lg=\"\" hidden-print=\"\" js-piano-locked-content=\"\">\n<p><strong>Series 11 of Death in Paradise is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. 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