THE PARADISE: SEASON ONE

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• Release Year: 2012
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Series 1 begins in 1875, and portrays the lives and loves of the people who work, shop and trade, in and around the first English department store.[8] The owner of The Paradise department store is widower John Moray. Moray was once a draper's boy in Emersons, the small shop that grew under his managership into The Paradise, which has come to dominate the high street to the detriment of small shopkeepers nearby.; ; Into this world comes Denise Lovett, from the small town of Peebles in Scotland, whose uncle Edmund is one of the shopkeepers struggling to survive. Denise takes a job at The Paradise and is soon seen by Moray as a rising star, to the annoyance of Miss Audrey, the head of ladies' fashion, and of Clara, a fellow shopgirl. Moray is financially dependent on Lord Glendenning, whose daughter Katherine is determined to marry Moray and sees Denise as a direct threat to her ambitions.
• Cast: Joanna Vanderham, Emun Elliott, Stephen Wight, Sonya Cassidy, Matthew McNulty, Elaine Cassidy, Finn Burridge, David Hayman, Peter Wight, Sarah Lancashire, Ruby Bentall, Patrick Malahide, Ben Daniels, Lisa Millett, Katie Moore, Edie Whitehead, Adrian Scarborough, Striker John, Mark Bonnar, Jenna Russell, Branka Katic, David Bamber, Laura Power, Arthur Darvill, Ed Walker, Joe Walker, Olivia Hallinan, Cliff Burnett, Ian Mclaughlin, Darren Beaumont, Stephane Cornicard, Kit Alexander, Helen Bradbury, Macy Dodsworth, Paul Nicholson, Sam Battersea, Selena Brook, John Duttine, Julia Ford, Kevin Guthrie, Claudia Jessie, Charlotte McDougall, Titus Rowe, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Grant Stimpson, Liz White, Victoria Willing, Helen Coverdale, Roly Lee, Martin Owens-Cairns, David Drury, Marc Jobst, Sue Tully, Kenneth Glenaan, Émile Zola, Gaby Chiappe, Katie Baxendale, Ben Harris
• Director: David Drury
• Runtime: 7:51
• Company: BBC, Masterpiece, BBC Home Video
• Media Format: Series