EXPRESS from the UK, the eagerly awaited Death in Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise launched on BritBox on February 24, with new episodes landing weekly throughout March. It follows the bumbling but brilliant DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall – My Family, Love Actually, Sanditon) and his fiancée, Martha (Sally Bretton – Not Going Out, The Office) as they relocate to the beautiful Devonshire coast.
Another must-watch highlight on BritBox from March 8 is the new four-part period drama The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a tragic love story with a murder mystery at its heart, based on the award-winning novel by Sara Collins. Adapted by the author from her award-winning novel of the same name and set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, The Confessions of Frannie Langton narrates Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite.
Be sure to catch the female-led detective drama Karen Pirie (March 16), based on veteran crime writer Val McDermid’s cold case novels and shot on location in Scotland. DS Karen Pirie (Lauren Lyle – Outlander, Vigil) is a young and fearless Scottish investigator with a quick mouth and a tenacious desire for the truth. Following her promotion to Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit, she’s tasked with reopening the investigation into the murder of teenage barmaid Rosie Duff, now the subject of a provocative true crime podcast. Stabbed to death in 1995, suspicion fell on the three drunken students who discovered her body but, despite police suspicion, the boys were never charged.
Multi-award-winning actress Brenda Blethyn dons her iconic mac and hat to return on March 23 as the unorthodox but brilliantly perceptive Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope in the 12th season of Vera, new and exclusive to BritBox South Africa.
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