BBC Death in Paradise spin-off star reunites with former detective after heartbreaking exit

Return to Paradise stars Anna Samson and Lloyd Griffith person paid tribute to a erstwhile Death successful Paradise detective acceptable to marque his return

Return to Paradise stars Anna Samson and Lloyd Griffith person tipped their hats to Death successful Paradise detective Ardal O'Hanlon, who reprises his relation arsenic Detective Jack Mooney successful the caller spin-off. While Anna Samson, playing DI Mackenzie Clarke, didn't transverse paths with Ardal during shoots, she's thrilled astir his recurring presence.

She revealed: "We tin expect Ardal to marque much than 1 quality than conscionable successful the archetypal occurrence due to the fact that helium plays my brag backmost astatine the Metropolitan Police.

"I americium successful changeless interaction with him, trying to fig retired erstwhile I tin get retired of Dolphin Cove and travel backmost to London. So he's rather an important quality to Mackenzie, helium is her brag and idiosyncratic she is friends with and respects."

Anna added that portion the amusement isn't a nonstop transcript of the original, it nods respectfully to its predecessor: "So the show, without being a c transcript of the original, has tons of tips of the chapeau to the original, not conscionable with the characters but adjacent definite shots are paying homage to the original, similar connected the formation with the suitcase and not [wearing] an due outfit for the weather. That is surely a wink and a motion to the original."

"I didn't get to conscionable Ardal due to the fact that helium changeable his worldly successful London and my worldly successful Australia. I privation to conscionable each of [the Death successful Paradise cast]. I deliberation it is thing astir playing the pb detective successful a Paradise show, truthful I privation to speech to them; I would emotion to conscionable them all," reports the Express.

Speaking astir Ardal's engagement successful the spin-off, Lloyd revealed helium had antecedently worked with him.

"I person gigged with Ardal separately arsenic a comedian, and that was mind-blowing," helium said warmly astir his co-star. "I inactive get giddy erstwhile I ticker the archetypal episode, this is Ardal O'Hanlon."

On the taxable of Ardal's return, helium added: "I deliberation fans volition beryllium excited."

The synopsis for the inaugural occurrence reads: "Return to Paradise follows DI Mackenzie Clarke, an Australian ex-pat who's made a sanction for herself successful London's Metropolitan Police for cracking uncrackable execution cases.

"When she is accused of tampering with evidence, Mackenzie returns to Australia, backmost to the past spot she ever wanted to beryllium her hometown of Dolphin Cove. Having fled the municipality six years ago, infamously leaving her ex-fiancee Glenn astatine the altar, Mackenzie is not invited here.

"But with nary different occupation options and a unsocial endowment for solving a mystery, nary substance however challenging, a reluctant Mack joins the squad astatine Dolphin Cove Police Station.

"Once a lawsuit lands connected her desk, she can't remainder until she's figured it retired and the slayer is successful handcuffs. It's that tenacity and enactment ethic that mightiness just, implicit time, assistance Mackenzie triumph implicit her caller colleagues and the radical of Dolphin Cove."

Return to Paradise airs contiguous astatine 8pm connected BBC One.