Including Adrian Edmondson and Josie Lawrence

Adrian Edmondson, Ted Lasso star James Lance and Comedy Story Player Josie Lawrence are to make guest appearances in the festive episodes of hit BBC detective show Death In Paradise and its spin-off Beyond Paradise.

Devon resident Edmondson will be heading to the county’s fictional town of Shipton Abbott for the festive edition of Beyond Paradise, which revolves around a man with amnesia turning up at the police station.

Lance – known as Trent Crimm in Ted Lasso – also guest stars in this episode alongside One Day’s Jonny Weldon and regulars including Kris Marshall, Sally Bretton and  Felicity Montagu.

Meanwhile, Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Lawrence appears in the Christmas episode of Death In Paradise – which spilts the action between the sun-kissed Caribbean and the distinctly less glamorous Swindon.

Don Gilet’s DI Mervin Wilson and his team investigate a body found in a swimming pool and determine the murder weapon – but are left baffled when they find it was locked in a drawer in Swindon when the murder took place.

The guest cast also includes Kate Ashfield – best known as Liz in Shaun Of The Dead – and Doctor Who’s Pearl Mackie.

Broadcast details of the episodes have not yet been announced. 

Published: 18 Nov 2025