The Paradise is a British television costume drama series co-produced by BBC Studios and
Masterpiece Theatre (1971).
The Paradise (2012) premiered in the United Kingdom on BBC One on September 25, 2012 and premiered in the United States on PBS on October 6, 2013. The series is an adaptation of
Émile Zola's 1883 novel 'Au Bonheur des Dames' which 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).
A second series was commissioned by BBC One in late October 2012 and was broadcast on 20 October 2013 on BBC One.
On February 12, 2014, the BBC confirmed that 'The Paradise' would not return for a third series. It cited that the program had lower figures than other relatively new dramas such as
Death in Paradise (2011),
Sherlock (2010) and
Silk (2011). Furthermore, its ITV rival
Mr Selfridge (2013) was performing better.
