Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie (fictional island) Saint Marie is a fictional island in the Lesser Antilles which serves as the setting for the BBC crime drama television series "Death in Paradise". Saint Marie is described in Episode 3.3 as a "pretty island" that is "situated in the Eastern Caribbean Sea" and "one-tenth the size of its north-west neighbour Guadeloupe", which would make Saint Marie about in size. It is described in Episode 4.5 as being 70 miles from Martinique. The island is a British Overseas Territory, but was handed over to the British from the French only in the 1970s, so that
Death in Paradise (TV series) of "The Daily Telegraph" criticised the laid-back tone of the series, calling it too methodical with nothing unique about it besides the setting. Red Planet Pictures was nominated for, and won, the "Diversity in a Drama Production Award" for "Death In Paradise". Sara Martins, Danny John-Jules, Don Warrington and Tobi Bakare collected the award at a ceremony supported by the BBC and ITV that took place on 15 February 2015. In the U.K., all series were shown on BBC One. The first series was broadcast in late 2011. The second series was broadcast in January 2013, with subsequent series filling