Paradise Beach

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Paradise Beach was a short-lived Australian television series made by Village Roadshow in association with New World International for the Nine Network between 1993 and 1994.

The series was set on Queensland's Gold Coast and was a youth-oriented series filmed largely on location. Paradise Beach was intended not only as a rival to Australian soaps Neighbours and Home and Away but also to be the first breakthrough Australian soap to make it in America. However, the series was largely savaged by the critics - with negative comparisons to the American shows Baywatch and Beverly Hills, 90210 - and failed to make an impression. After the series ended, Jaason Simmons joined the cast of Baywatch the following year.

In the UK, the soap was launched in a blaze of publicity on Sky Television in September 1993 in the 6.30pm time slot. Sky moved the more popular, but recently axed E Street to a weekend slot, but when Paradise Beach flopped in Britain as well as Australia, Sky moved E Street back to weekdays and Paradise Beach was screened in double episodes on Saturdays and Sundays.