Actor Ralf Little signs off from his stint on Death in Paradise (Image: BBC) Death in Paradise star Barabara Flynn apologises on BBC Morning Live BBC hit drama, Death in Paradise, is headlining a new season of the top detective and crime dramas from the last six decades, to be featured over the summer on the BBC . The Guadeloupe-set drama, which is currently shooting with a new lead detective played by Don Gilet, is sharing the season with an impressive list of award winners such as Life on Mars, Line of Duty, Happy Valley and Wallander. The season also includes two obscure titles, rarely seen on British television.
First is the 1978 version of Law & Order, a four-part series about the judicial system. It would be remade by producer Dick Wolf many years later, with a successful series in the US, with Bradley Walsh starring in a UK version. We also have Campion, a detective drama series adapted from the novels by Margery Allingham in 1989.
It starred former Doctor Who, Peter Davison, in 1930s England as an aristocratic sleuth. Top team at AC-12 in search of bent coppers (Image: BBC) Bafta-winning TV executive Francis Hopkinson, who made two dramas on the list – Wallander, and The Cops, said: “The season proves detective dramas never go out of fashion. “The success of Wallander was down to one thing -- an extraordinary performance from Kenneth Branagh as a troubled everyman struggling with the demons of Swedish society.
“As for The Cops, Tony Garnet, the great televisio.
