Return to Paradise Season 3 on ABC

27th March 2026

Lights. Camera. Season Three!
Return to Paradise is in production

The ABC is thrilled to announce that filming is underway on season three of the Logie award winning series Return to Paradise, Australia’s original spin-off of the global smash-hit murder mystery Death in Paradise.

 

The compelling and entertaining six-part whodunit series is produced by BBC Studios Australia Productions, in partnership with Red Planet Pictures, a Fremantle company, for the ABC, and in association with the BBC.

 

DS Mackenzie Clarke (Anna Samson) is back, fresh from having wrecked another of Glenn’s (Tai Hara) weddings and determined never to follow her heart again.

 

But ignoring her heart won’t be easy. The arrival of her force-of-nature mother Jillian (Kerry Armstrong) puts Mack's mettle to the ultimate test and there's something undeniable about the raffish charm of the new pathologist Leo (Jacob Collins). And as for Glenn, who has gone away to ‘find himself’, well that's a whole other puzzle for Mack to try and solve ...

 

And, while Dolphin Cove may still look like paradise, it continues to serve up a steady stream of baffling murder mysteries – from the artist stabbed in full view of the public, to the wildlife worker dead in a locked cassowary cage. Mack will solve it all with her usual brilliance, and the off-beat help of her loyal team.

 

Reprising their roles in the award-winning series are Lloyd Griffith as Colin Cartwright, Tai Hara as Glenn Strong, Catherine McClements as Philomena Strong, Celia Ireland as Reggie Rocco and Aaron McGrath as Felix Wilkinson.

 

Season three also features a stellar line up of guest actors including Mark Lee (A Place to Call Home, La Brea), Tina Bursill (Strife, Doctor, Doctor), Ngali Shaw (Ladies in Black, The Twelve), Anthony Hayes (The Slap, Total Control), Zöe Ventura (Packed to the Rafters, Time Bandits), Zindzi Okenyo (Troppo, Critical Incident) and Matt Day (Rake, The Unusual Suspects).

 

Return to Paradise will air on ABC TV and ABC iview later this year.
 

Stream Return to Paradise season one and two on ABC iview now.