The Paradise: Series One: Episode 3 of 8 – Sarah Lancashire, Patrick Malahide,Ruby Bentall, David Hayman,

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The Paradise is a British television costume drama series co-produced by BBC Studios and Masterpiece.^[1] The Paradise premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 25 September 2012 and premiered in the United States on PBS on 6 October 2013.^[2] The series is an adaptation of Émile Zola‘s 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames that relocates the story to North East England. (Zola’s novel itself is a retelling of the story of Aristide Boucicaut, the Bellême-born founder of Le Bon Marché.)^[3]

A second series was commissioned by BBC One in late October 2012^[4] and was broadcast on 20 October 2013 on BBC One.