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Kris Marshall returns as DI Humphrey Goodman in Death in Paradise’s beloved spin-off Beyond Paradise.

Everything we know so far about Beyond Paradise season 5

1. Beyond Paradise will be returning for a fifth season with actor Kris Marshall, Sally Bretton and Zahra Ahmadi returning for the new episodes. BBC Studios announced the news with a picture of a clapperboard featuring Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman’s silhouette in front of a rural church.
2. The broadcaster promised “sunny shores, secrets to solve and scones to scoff” as they return to Devon and Cornwall. Fans were thrilled by the announcement with one writing “Oh thank goodness!”, as another said “So happy as the best cast ever and love the storylines and just everything about it.”
3. Unlike Death in Paradise, its Caribbean predecessor, Beyond Paradise is set in the fictional Devon coastal town of Shipton Abbott. Filming takes place in South East Cornwall and Devon, with Looe standing in for Shipton Abbott. The town’s Guildhall doubles as the police station while Launceston portrays the town centre.
4. Zahra Ahmadi, who plays DS Esther Williams, officially confirmed the fifth series after Kris Marshall accidentally let slip the news early. She cheekily said: “It has been said by a certain Kris Marshall but he was not allowed, and he was very undisciplined and blurted it out but you are getting the true exclusive. We have a fifth series, we are very excited.”
5. When Beyond Paradise does return, the series is expected once again to revolve around head scratching investigations such as impossible burglaries and missing families An official release date hasn’t been announced just yet but Beyond Paradise is expected to return in 2027.

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Van Der Valk returns to our screens tonight with three more headscratching investigations on the way.

Van Der Valk fans are eager to know all there is about season four ahead of its ITV debut tonight.

Season four of the hit ITV detective drama Van Der Valk begins this evening, Sunday, August 2, at 8pm, the first of three feature-length episodes set to air every week.

As always, Piet Van Der Valk will be portrayed by Band of Brothers star Marc Warren, who will be joined by Maimie McCoy as Lucienne Hassell, Emma Fielding as Julia Dahlman and Darrell D’Silva as Hendrik Davie.

UK fans have been waiting for three years for the show’s return with season four first released in America in 2024.

But now the wait is finally over so here’s everything there is to know about Van Der Valk’s filming locations for season four.

Where is ITV Van Der Valk season 4 filmed?

As Van Der Valk is a Dutch detective drama, like previous series, season four has been filmed entirely in the Netherlands, primarily in the capital city of Amsterdam.

Some of its standout locations include The Canal Belts, also known as the Grachtengordel, the historic 14km waterways built during the 17th Century Dutch Golden Age.

Other key spots include Cafe Scheltema which is frequently featured when the detectives gather for debriefs and their breakthroughs, as well as the Amstel River.

Along with Amsterdam, some additional shots are filmed in nearby cities like Utrecht and The Hague.

Warren previously opened up about shooting a season one scene at the iconic Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam which he hailed as “amazing”.

“Being on my own, looking up at Rembrandt’s The Night Watch at midnight, I was just thinking, ‘How do these things happen?’, he told Radio Times.

“Just before we shot that, they brought a guy in on a stretcher to give him a private view of the painting. It was his dying wish.

“An hour or two later, I was standing there alone with this masterpiece.”

Van Der Valk season four premieres tonight, Sunday, August 2, at 8pm, on ITV.

Tourists say people were putting the towels on the beds first thing then not coming back until 4pm

Resort workers have been hailed heroes after being filmed removing piles of towels from unoccupied sunbeds reserved by holidaymakers. The viral clip has delighted travellers fed up with people claiming loungers for hours without using them.

It was filmed at Camping Le Marsouins in Argelès-sur-Mer, near Perpignan, France. With several holiday resorts now introducing rules to stop guests reserving sunbeds they are not using, staff at the campsite decided to take matters into their own hands.

The clip, which has racked up over three million views and 80,000 likes, showed two members of staff in yellow and red uniforms collecting towels from empty loungers. They piled the abandoned towels onto a single sunbed, freeing up the rest for guests who are actually using the pool

Vir Ginie, who filmed the video, explained why staff stepped in. She said: “The idea is to free up unoccupied sun loungers. People come and leave their towels as soon as the pool opens, then leave and come back around 4pm, for example.

“So the loungers are unavailable for people at the pool and, in high season, it causes problems and annoys the other holidaymakers.”

The clip reignited the long-running debate over holidaymakers reserving poolside loungers for hours before returning to use them.

One viewer said: “About time – all hotels should be doing this.” Another said: A big round of applause for these staff members.

“This is exactly how it should be in every hotel.” While a third said: “All hotels should do this.”

The Dark is a new ITV crime drama inspired by GR Halliday’s novel From the Shadows.

ITV’s The Dark is arriving with fans keen to discover everything about its “beautiful” setting.

Following the discovery of a young man’s body in the picturesque wilderness, it rapidly emerges that a serial killer is at large.

This marks the start of Detective Monica Kennedy’s (portrayed by Laura Donnelly) perilous cat and mouse chase as she embarks on a treacherous investigation to apprehend the murderer.

As ITV audiences prepare to immerse themselves in the chilling world inspired by GR Halliday’s novel From the Shadows, here’s all you need to know about The Dark’s filming locations.

Where was ITV’s The Dark filmed?

The Dark on ITV is situated in the remote Scottish Highlands, with production taking place across Greenock, Inverclyde, the broader Glasgow region and its surrounding countryside.

Last September, actress Donnelly and actor Mark Rowley were photographed filming The Dark alongside production crews at James Watt College’s Finnart Street campus.

The cast were also captured at Annexe Park, Fox Street, Greenock, Newton Street, Cathcart Square, plus Inverclyde Academy and St Mary’s Primary School.

Multiple sequences were additionally captured throughout greater Glasgow’s countryside, which served as a stand-in for the isolated Scottish Highlands.

Screenwriter Matt Hartley revealed to the Royal Television Society that working in Scotland proved an enormous attraction when it came to production and drawing creative inspiration.

“I grew up in the Peak District and live in Wales so the space and atmosphere in the ­Highlands and areas around where we were filming was intrinsic to me.

“There’s a line early on that says: ‘This is where people come to bury bodies, not display them.'”

“That was one of our key thoughts: this is a world of mystery, where people disappear.”

French-born director Gilles Bannier, however, had quite a different expectation of what filming in Scotland would entail.

He revealed: “It met all my expectations except one.

“I wanted these rolling clouds, amazing mist – the Scottish weather we all know.

“In fact, it was the most beautiful summer and autumn they’ve ever had in Scotland.

“So we were chasing a single cloud, a single drop of rain.”

The Dark premieres on Sunday, July 12, at 9pm, on ITV.

The BBC’s hit thriller filmed in Bristol and Somerset has finally returned for its second season, but where was it filmed?

Fans want to know if Little Kilton is a real place.

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is back today (Wednesday, 27th May) and sees Pip Fitz-Amobi (played by Emma Myers) delving into another chilling missing person case.

This time, she’s determined to put predator Max Hastings (Henry Ashton) behind bars, but the disappearance of a key witness, Connor’s older brother Jamie, pushes her investigative skills to the limit.

Based on the bestselling novels by Holly Black, the first series became a huge hit thanks to its addictive, edge-of-your-seat twists and a global release on Netflix.

It is also famously filmed in Bristol and other parts of the West Country, standing in for Pip’s fictional village of Little Kilton.

With six thrilling new episodes now streaming on iPlayer, let’s take a look a little closer at the locations used in the second season.

Where was A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2 filmed?

The second series of the popular BBC and Netflix drama was once again filmed around Bristol and Somerset.

Much of the show’s interior scenes are shot at Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol, which reportedly includes the likes of school classrooms, investigation rooms, and darker interiors for the murder-mystery show’s more suspenseful scenes.

Bristol itself was also used for more urban areas of Little Kilton to highlight the second outing’s gritty tone. Clifton Village in central Bristol, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, can also be seen briefly.

Standing in for the idyllic village of Little Kilton is Axbridge, a small town near Cheddar, Somerset.

The town square, the Old Station and Chestnut Avenue were all closed for filming in 2025, with a memorial, flags, and other decor put up for key scenes including the memorial service which kicks off season two. Axbridge’s St John the Baptist Church can also be seen.

Season two director Asim Abassi confirmed: “We filmed Little Kilton in the town of Axbridge, which is lovely but small, so you get the challenges of a tight-knit community curious about filming. But it is wonderfully quaint and perfect for Little Kilton.”

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Another key location this time around is an abandoned manor, which actor Zain Iqbal, who portrays Pip’s boyfriend Ravi, confirms is near Bristol.

And Abassi revealed it was his “favourite” location, adding: “It was originally meant to be something else, but I pushed for it to be a manor, so I am personally attached to it.

“It ended up being a phenomenal location and, to me, captures the essence of season 2.”

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2 is available on BBC iPlayer and internationally on Netflix.

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has been filmed appearing to have a heated altercation during the Euroleague Basketball final in Athens on Sunday.

Marinakis, 58, who also owns Olympiakos, was at the event to watch the Olympiakos basketball team’s 92-85 win over Real Madrid.

Footage from the event, shared on social media, appears to show Marinakis wearing a ripped shirt and arguing in the stands while being separated by a barrier and security personnel.

The video does not show the person with whom Marinakis is arguing, but Greek media, external are reporting it to be Grigoris Dimitriadis, who is a former close advisor to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

BBC Sport has approached Nottingham Forest for comment.

Forest drew 1-1 with Bournemouth on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday as the club secured a 16th-placed finish.

Petr Vlachovsky, ⁠a Czech women’s football club coach who filmed players in changing rooms, has been banned for life.

European football’s governing body says it has issued a lifetime ban ⁠to Petr Vlachovsky, ⁠a Czech women’s football coach who secretly filmed his players.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) said it had decided to ban Vlachovsky “from exercising any football-related activity for life” following an investigation into allegations of potential misconduct.

“The CEDB further decided to request FIFA to extend the abovementioned ban on a worldwide level and to order the Football Association of the Czech Republic to revoke Mr Petr Vlachovsky’s coaching licence,” the statement added.

Czech media reported that the coach was convicted in ⁠May 2025 and initially received a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban for filming FC Slovacko’s players in changing rooms, the youngest of ⁠whom was 17. According to the indictment cited by the Czech media, Vlachovsky confessed and expressed regret.

Vlachovsky had also previously served as coach of the Czech women’s Under-19 team.

“This is a deeply serious and distressing matter which came to light ⁠in 2023 and had a significant impact on our club, ⁠and above all on the players affected,” a spokesperson for FC Slovacko told the Reuters news agency.

“From the moment we became aware of the allegations, the club acted immediately, terminated its cooperation with the former coach, and ⁠cooperated with the relevant authorities.

“Throughout this process, the club has regarded itself as an injured party and has treated the ⁠matter with the utmost seriousness, sensitivity and respect for ⁠those affected.”

Football players’ union FIFPRO welcomed the ban as well as UEFA’s request for world football governing body FIFA to impose an international ban on Vlachovsky.

“This outcome sends a strong and necessary message that abusive and inappropriate behaviour has no place in football and ‌that ‌safeguarding the wellbeing of players must remain a priority at every level of the game,” FIFPRO added in a statement.