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WHEN did the show translate from one season to the next?

posted 10 years ago by daneldorado
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Hi... I love this show "Death in Paradise", but I'm finding it hard to understand what is going on.

When the show made its debut here, Richard Poole (Ben Miller) played the role of an uptight Brit, assigned to being a detective inspector on the island of Ste. Marie in the Caribbean. His assistants were played by Sara Martins as Camille, a detective sergeant, plus about three male assisants.

At some point later on, Poole left and a new inspector, Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall), took over as the chief. Eventually Sara Martins also left the show.

Now, here is where my problems begin. I watch "Death in Paradise" on the PBS station that serves California, in the U.S.A. What I cannot fathom is why the station is playing the episodes OUT OF ORDER!

I know that Sara Martins as Camille was in the first episode, but at some point she was replaced by Florence (Josephine Jobert). When? And Poole was replaced by Goodman, but again WHEN?

Last night I tried to access this show online, but the only eps I could find were the ones featuring Camille. Apparently the eps pairing Goodman and Florence are in a different block.

Cheers,
Dan

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[–] Jessica_Rabbit69 10 years ago

Ok, here it goes. There will be SPOILERS. Can't help you with PBS though.

Richard Poole was murdered (!) in the beginning of season three. The actor wanted to leave the show. He was replaced by Humphrey Goodman. Camille left the show in the middle of season 4 to take a job in Paris, and was replaced by Florence.

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[–] LCella9370 10 years ago

Actually, Florence replaced Fidel. She worked with Camille for at least 3 eps.

[–] VelvetTigress 9 years ago

Wha...good grief. So, in addition to Poole, Camille and Fidel leave, too?? Who's even left of the original cast at this point?!

[–] Julie-30 9 years ago

Dwayne and the Commissioner.

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[–] Julie-30 9 years ago

PS - Catherine is still there also.

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[–] squodge 8 years ago

Don't forget Harry...

[–] raf-33 8 years ago

US networks have a habit of playing shows out of order, they have a tendency to play shows to a test group first to gauge the reaction of specific episodes and then they play the show in an order that 'impact' episodes go up against something big on a rival network in order to steal viewers. US networks have did this since the 60's, one of the first big victims was Star Trek and it annoyed the hell out of Gene Roddenberry who was trying to construct a story arc.

It has also killed a bunch of shows including the cult favourite Firefly where viewers turned off after not being able to follow the narrative.

Huge successes like Desperate Housewives and The Walking Dead will never get touched but sadly a little import from the UK about a detective in the Caribbean will be manipulated all to hell because it's just fodder, a slot filler.

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[–] Julie-30 8 years ago

Also, the US is waiting for series 6 to start, so they're showing the old ones in anticipation. My local PBS station (WUSF in Tampa, FL) is definitely showing them in order - S3, E1 was on last Saturday night and is being re-run a lot and E2 will air this coming Saturday night.

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