{"id":48130,"date":"2024-03-20T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2012493"},"modified":"2024-03-20T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:02:32","slug":"beyond-paradises-kris-marshall-on-existential-threat-facing-police-station","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/beyond-paradises-kris-marshall-on-existential-threat-facing-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Paradise\u2019s Kris Marshall on \u201cexistential threat\u201d facing police station"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a “bone of contention”. <\/p>

By Abby Robinson\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2024 at 17:15 PM<\/p>

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The fate of Shipton Abbott\u2019s police station<\/a> has been uncertain for some time now in Beyond Paradise, and heading into season 2<\/a> it still remains at risk of closure in favour of the team moving to a more centralised base.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police station is facing an existential threat, as is common with many, many areas of life and business these days,\u201d explained Kris Marshall.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is on a one-way track to being homogenised and centralised, and so that obviously removes the soul of community policing, which is something that\u2019s close to Humphrey\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd because of that, the station house, their mini, quirky station house, is directly under threat from being assimilated into the hub.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cHow that resolves itself, we\u2019ll just have to find out, but it\u2019s an ongoing thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

That also creates tension between Humphrey and CS Charlie Woods (Jade Harrison).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bone of contention between Humphrey and his superior, who he finds awfully charming but bemusing in equal measure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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