DEATH IN Paradise's spin off show, Beyond Paradise, is set to air its first ever Christmas special on the Beeb this year.
And lead actor Kris Marshall has opened up about a nightmare situation behind-the-scenes while the detective drama was being shot.
The man behind DI Humphrey Goodman admitted that the Christmas episode was filmed in the middle of summer, leaving some of his co-stars hot and bothered.
Luckily clever Kris got out of that one by insisting that his character would wear t-shirts and shorts no matter the weather.
He said: "It was hot. I know a lot of the other cast had to wear Christmassy, wintery clothing - like mittens and Christmas jumpers - but I maintained that Humphrey, as is his character, wouldn’t wear coats or jumpers. He just wears the same thing all the time.
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"So, I got away with it a bit! Although I had to act cold, because not wearing the warm clothing meant I had to pretend that it was chilly and I wasn’t wearing the adequate clothing for it."
The Love Actually star added: "It was very interesting filming in Looe, we filmed a Christmas market scene which is quite a significant
part of the episode, and it must have been 28 or 29 degrees that day.
"We were filming with fake snow and lots of jingle bells, while literally twenty feet away there was people on the beach in their budgie
smugglers filming us.
"It made for an interesting dichotomy. Because it stays lighter longer in the summer and gets darker earlier in the winter, a lot of our scenes were at night and we had to film very late, but you had this kind of weirdly brilliant thing where, once you’ve finished filming the Christmas episode, you could then go to the beach!"
Beyond Paradise follows Detective Humphrey as he retires from the limelight in Saint-Marie and retreats to Devon.
Although he was hoping for some peace and quiet in the country, upon arrival he is met with a wave of local crime, and once again must crack the case.
Kris added how privileged he feels that the show has already been granted a Christmas special after only airing one season.
"It’s a great honour to be granted a Christmas special for what was, this year, a new show," he shared. "I really feel privileged – as I think we all do, because usually it takes two or three series to bed in and to be granted a Christmas special. To get that at the end of our first series was a real boon for us."
