Airdate: One Night
Local drama series with top-shelf cast including Jodie Whittaker, Nicole da Silva and Yael Stone to screen in early September.
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We now have a date for the new locally produced drama series, One Night starring Jodie Whittaker (Dr Who, Broadchurch), Nicole da Silva (Doctor Doctor, Wentworth) and Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black) coming to Paramount+.
The character-driven mystery about female friendships under emotional and existential strain, is created and written by Emily Ballou (The Slap, Taboo) and directed by Catherine Millar (The Twelve, The Secrets She Keeps) and Lisa Matthews (Doctor Doctor, The PM’s Daughter). It is produced by Easy Tiger and Motive Pictures.
The cast also includes Kat Stewart (Five Bedrooms, Offspring), George Mason (The Power of the Dog), Erroll Shand (Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud), Noni Hazlehurst (A Place To Call Home, Fires), Tina Bursill (Doctor Doctor), William Zappa (The Dry, Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears), Damien Strouthos (The Twelve) and Jillian Nguyen (Barons).
One Night is the story of three women whose bond was all but destroyed by the traumatic events of one night 20-years-ago.
Since then, Simone (Nicole da Silva) has harboured secret hopes of becoming a novelist but most of her haphazard attempts have been shoved into her bottom drawer. Now, at the age of 40, she has finally written the one story she could never get out of her mind, and her debut manuscript has become an unexpected overnight success.
But it soon becomes apparent that the devastating story the book tells doesn’t exclusively belong to her. At the heart of Simone’s novel is a tragedy which also happened to Tess (Jodie Whittaker) and Hat (Yael Stone), her two childhood best friends.
As it becomes harder to prise fact from fiction, one person’s memory and story from another’s, the book threatens to derail all their friendships, bringing old traumas to the surface of the small coastal community where they grew up, and stirring its perpetrators, who want to make it all go away.
Friday, 1 September on Paramount+.
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It seems like our networks and streaming services don’t have much faith in our talents in Australia. Typical.
To be fair the cast of Appleton Ladies Potato Race was led by Claire van der Boom and a host of Aussies (as One Night has). But the reality is drama is expensive and generally requires co-productions, so the partners will always want a say in casting.
Another female skewed story starring a British actress. It’s like the 70s & 80s all over again. Surely there are enough Australians who can carry a TV series now esp if we have to put up with them butchering our accent.