The Paradise Season 2 returns to Masterpiece Classic

Order the carriage, raise your credit limit, and hurry to town: The Paradise is open for business!

Denise Lovett (Joanna Vanderham) is the bright-eyed country girl who finds more than just shop-girl work when she brings her clever ideas and ambition to The Paradise, a glamorous, Victorian-era department store. John Moray (Emun Elliott) is the store’s dashing and enigmatic owner, an entrepreneur with more than his share of passion -- and secrets.

Critics were sold on The Paradise, Season 1. “The Paradise…sparks and shimmers,” marveled The New York Daily News. “Compelling [and] addictive,” enthused The Philadelphia Enquirer. Variety called it “impeccably cast, extremely handsome…another first-rate costume drama.”

The Paradise Season 2 airs in eight dazzling episodes on MASTERPIECE, Sundays, September 28-November 16, 2014, at 8pm ET – a special time!

VISIT MASTERPIECE CLASSIC HERE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/paradise/

The Paradise - Series 1, Episode 6 PREVIEW

A bright-eyed country girl, Denise Lovett, finds more than just shop-girl work when she brings her clever ideas and ambition to Britain's glamorous first department store, The Paradise. Denise is plunged into power struggles, intrigues and romance as she catches the attention of the store's dashing and enigmatic owner, John Moray. Entangled with his powerful financial backer's entitled daughter, Moray harbors a dark secret as well as debts that threaten to ruin his hard-won empire. The Paradise, embodying the progress and the pain of a new age of commerce, is the way of the future. But will that future belong to those who usher it in…and can they have a future together?