The Paradise to run for second series

BBC1's will open its doors for a second run.

The series has been recommissioned with three episodes of the first series still to go.

The story of the first-ever department store in the UK, starring Joanna Vanderham, Sarah Lancashire, Emun Elliott and Patrick Malahide, in a Tuesday night slot last month.

BBC1 controller Danny Cohen said it was "really interesting to experiment with on BBC1 beyond the traditional Sunday night slot".

By putting it out on Tuesday, Cohen also avoided a head to head clash with ITV1's Downton Abbey and another acclaimed (albeit lower-rating) , 's Homeland, which also airs at 9pm on Sunday.

Andrew Marr's History of the World, which went up against Downton Abbey on BBC1, has suffered in the ratings with .

With its early autumn launch, the BBC1 controller beat , a ?10m project starring Jeremy Piven, to the screen.

Cohen added: "I'm delighted that the show will be returning for a second series, and can assure its loyal following that there are still some dramatic twists to come in the three episodes still to air this autumn."

Writer Bill Gallagher, who previously made his name with another costume drama,australian dvd store, Lark Rise to Candleford, loosely adapted The Paradise from the French novel by ?mile Zola,blue ray dvds.

The said the first four episodes had a consolidated average audience of 5.9 million viewers. It was commissioned by Cohen and Ben Stephenson, controller of BBC drama commissioning.

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And while the women occupied themselves by coveting silk gowns and rich husbands, the men had a much manlier task – delivering laughable hyperbole with a straight face. “If you want to fight me,television show episodes, Edmund, you will lose,” said Moray to his competitor across the street. “Because it is not a man you are taking on. It is progress.”

But Moray needed to borrow working capital from rich old Lord Glendenning (Patrick Malahide), and had been wooing Glendenning’s daughter to try and loosen the purse strings. “I must warn you,&rdquo,tv series dvd s; said Glendenning, in his most menacing Clint Eastwood whisper, “if you break her heart, whether or not I grant you a loan will be of no consequence. Because I shall make it my business… to ruin you.”

In fact, viewers may have puzzled over The Paradise being based not on its retail soulmate Acorn Antiques, but on the novel Au bonheur des dames by Emile Zola. If the radical French novelist were still alive today, he might well be tempted to use the words “j’accuse” once more.