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BBC orders Beyond Paradise Season 3 and Xmas special

The BBC, BritBox International and Red Planet Pictures have announced that Beyond Paradise has been recommissioned for a 2024 Christmas special episode and third season, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer. Beyond Paradise has become one of the UK’s most popular dramas since its debut in 2023, with episode one of season two being […]

April 26, 2024

Banijay Asia, Sporting Beyond partnership

Deepak Dhar’s Banijay Asia (a joint venture between him and Banijay), and Ravi Shastri’s Sporting Beyond (founded by Shastri and Jaiveer Panwar), have announced a strategic partnership aimed at redefining the landscape of cricket entertainment through content and live events. This collaboration is set to explore innovative ways of merging cricket and entertainment. Announcing the […]

April 23, 2024

BBC orders Mr Loverman

The BBC and Fable Pictures have announced new drama series Mr Loverman, based on the acclaimed 2013 novel by the Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo, for BBC One and iPlayer. Lennie James will star as the protagonist, Barrington Jedidiah Walker, in the eight-part drama adapted by Nathaniel Price. Filming will begin later this year, with […]

June 6, 2023

Beyond Paradise debuts Feb 24 on BBC

Death in Paradise spin-off series Beyond Paradise, made by Red Planet Pictures and coming to BBC One and iPlayer on February 24th. Co-commissioned by the BBC and BritBox International, Beyond Paradise follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée Martha Lloyd after their nail-biting will-they-won’t-they romance reached its emotional finale in Saint Marie in 2017. Viewers […]

February 6, 2023

Banijay to acquire Beyond

Content producer and distributor Banijay has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed to acquire scripted and non-scripted multi-territory content group Beyond International Limited. Beyond has been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange since 1987, but once the Scheme is implemented it will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Banijay and its shares will cease to be […]

October 6, 2022By Colin Mann