Review: 'The Paradise' on PBS a soapy take on retail store's rise

Shopgirls and class distinctions abound in the 'Masterpiece' work about the advent of the British department store.A pleasingly soapy story of beating hearts and changing times, "The Paradise," which begins Sunday on PBS, takes the 1883 Émile Zola department-store novel "Au Bonheur des Dames" (The Ladies' Paradise) and transfers the action from Paris to the north of England.