Death in Paradise Has a New Lead Actor

Death in Paradise Has a New Lead Actor #bbc
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[@tomcarberry4445]

We loved this guy in the Night Detective. He’ll be great in DIP.

[@no288]

DI Humphrey Goodman busted him as being the murderer in one of the episodes ; )

[@Outlier999]

It looks like a good pick. I credit British television for casting average looking people even in some lead roles. American television shows are loaded with ridiculously attractive people.

[@Obanshee2002]

He's extremely good looking and hot

[@LeeFletch]

It strange that are bring back an actor that’s already be it before

[@bertholdroettgers213]

Wasn't he playing the murderer /prisonner on the boat who changed his place with his warden (who was handcuffed to DI Richard Pool) ?

[@nevetswad]

Oh, I'm not sure.

[@bertholdroettgers213]

​@@nevetswadOh, you are right😅 That was Colin Salmon. They both were in Dr. Who episodes with the tenth doctor. Don Gilet was the groom in the "Runaway Bride" and Colin Salmon was Doctor Moon in the two library episodes.

[@mogon721]

Wow, after only 13 years, they finally break the race hierarchy! Isn't that lightning fast! But I guess, it would have made selling the series into the US harder.
Now I guess we have to wait another 13 years for a female Inspector to break through the glass ceiling of patriarchy. Imagine the likes of Sara Martins or Joséphine Jobert delivering lines more satisfying than Yes Sir, no Sir!
I think the first DS in the series, the one who was actually the murderer, said it right. As a woman, especially a *local* woman, she had no chance of being promoted, she always got some crappy colonial outsider put into her way, so she did her own thing and became a criminal.
Now let's also hope the writers get a bit more creative and stop repeating the same patterns of poisoning or stabbing behind locked doors with the only suspects being close to the victims and having rock solid alibis. If it wasn't for the good actors, the series should have ended long ago. The plots are often so ridiculously absurd, it's painful to watch. In most cases, no court in the world would convict anybody. I think the most ridiculous episode was the one with the cyclists where the whole thing was based on the assumption that a very full-figured lady pretended to be one of the very athletic slim male cyclists during the race. Seriously, what were they smoking...

[@mariastone1615]

Why do people have to focus in on sex, race, etc. when considering a lead actor. I am sick of this glass ceiling mess where we have to include every one. What happened to who was the best qualified for the job regardless of race and sex?

[@mogon721]

​@@mariastone1615
Well, yes, a very valid question. Why do the writers and producers so focus on sex and race when they could have taken just normal people of any sex and race for either of the roles? From the beginning of the first episode, the hirarchy was set in stone. A white, male, very smart, but above all, British lead role on that relic of a colonial outpost in the Caribbean. A less white, less smart, female support to look pretty and utter the cues for the ingenious white male. A few locals (i.e. black people) to deliver jokes and do silly things.
Yes my dear, if you think about it, THAT is the question you should ask. Not me, but THEM. Because for everybody with eyes in their head, THAT is a repetitive pattern throughout the whole series. They even wrote it themselves into the script of the first episode when the local female DS complains about that exact pattern. And mind you, rebelling against this pattern meant she went on to ultimately become a criminal and a murderer. Could be the writers would have liked a change of affairs but the producers didn't want it, and I still say it's because they feared they would have lost certain markets where race and gender have more weight than other things like qualification or experience.
But since you talk about qualification yourself, and in light of the pattern that is clearly visible, you seem to consider it normal that it MUST be a white male Brit who is more qualified than anybody else in the force, especially female non-whites.
I know, it's absolutely futile to write this, but maybe, just maybe, you might take a minute to *reflect* on your own views on sex and race here.

[@eileenroman8325]

Oooh no not him! Not much personality there. Very disappointed.