Death in Paradise boss reveals bizarre reason filming had to stop every 15 minutes
DEATH IN PARADISE continues tonight as new detective DI Neville Parker continued to try to fit in on the island after a rocky start following DI Jack Mooney's exit.
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Viewers watched last week as DI Neville (played by Ralf Little) got off on the wrong foot with his first case where he got a lot more than he bargained for after DI Jack Mooney’s (Ardal O’Hanlon) exit. But Death in Paradise bosses have now revealed the bizarre reason they often had to stop filming every 15 minutes when filming at the police station.
Tim Key, a producer on Death in Paradise has revealed some secrets about where they film but it seems the process wasn’t easy.
Tim revealed during the filming for scenes at the police station, the crew would have to pause for church bells.
The bells would ring every 15 minutes and the crew also had to compete with the sound of crowing roosters which would roam around the set.
Unfortunately, it was unavoidable as the exteriors and interiors for the police station were previously the local parish community centre, which was located next to the local church in Deshaies
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Tim previously told What's On TV: “We get on very well with the priest, we’ve worked with him since the beginning.
“We built him a new office on the side of the building to say thank you.”
The show boss also revealed the Inspector's Shack, which features in almost every episode, takes weeks to put together at the start of each series.
We rebuild it every year and it’s all real inside," Tim revealed.
“We shoot inside there. Of course we could have done those scenes in Pinewood but it wouldn’t feel the same.”
The island of Guadeloupe isn’t a quiet one, as former star Ardal said the island can be unbearably noisy.
He told Radio Times: “I told Ralf Little all the cool restaurants to go to, but the only real advice I could give him, other than preparation, is stay cool, literally and metaphorically, when things go wrong. Because they will go wrong.
“Nothing can prepare you for the noise, the sheer cacophony on the island. The sun goes down at six o’clock and then the frogs and crickets kick in.
“They don’t stop for 12 hours, it gets louder and louder. Then the wild dogs start barking and start chasing the wild hens. It is chaos out there, madness.”
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It comes after after Ralf opened up on the challenges of joining the cast revealing he “annoyed everyone” with his enthusiasm.
“Admittedly I was only there for two and a half months and everyone else was there for five,” he dished to Express.co.uk.
“Maybe by month four people were like, ‘Okay, I’m a little tired now’ or whatever.
“But that said, I think I started to annoy everyone with my relentless positivity because I just loved it.”
DI Neville is just weeks into his new role on the island but he has already had his hands full.
Tonight the drama will continue as the team are left stumped when the owner of a hair salon is killed in front of her family without anyone seeing what happened.
DI Nevill, JP Hooper (Tobi Bakare) and Ruby Patterson (Shyko Amos) will race to work out what happened and who in the salon was out to kill.
Will they be able to solve the murder without causing further drama?
Death In Paradise continues on BBC One tonight at 9pm.