When it was announced that a spin-off series of Death in Paradise – the BBC’s much-mocked, but massively popular 15-season comedy crime series – was going to take Kris Marshall’s DI Humphrey Goodman from the blue seas of the Caribbean and plant him in Shipton Abbott in Devon, fans weren’t sure it could be pulled off.
After all, the whole point of Death in Paradise, which is still ongoing, is that the murders take place on sunny Saint Marie, a fictional island in the tropics. And part of the fun is all the argy-bargy between the Caribbean and British police officers.
