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Best known as Detective Sergeant Florence Cassell in Death in Paradise, Joséphine Jobert heads the cast of a new crime drama with a picturesque location, U&Alibi’s Saint-Pierre, set on an archipelago of French islands off the coast of Canada.
The French star plays Deputy Chief Geneviève Archambault, nicknamed Arch, based on Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, who is furious when she’s forced to team up with Inspector Donny Fitzpatrick, AKA Fitz, (Canadian actor Allan Hawco).
Despite its similarities to Death in Paradise, the show was one Joséphine couldn’t turn down.
‘I read the script and fell in love with my character,’ she tells TV Times from her Paris apartment. ‘Arch is amazing. I knew this…