One Night (Australian TV series)

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One Night
Created by Emily Ballou
Screenplay byEmily Ballou
Directed by
  • Catharine Miller
  • Lisa Matthews
Starring
Composer Amanda Brown
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producers
  • Hannah Creelman
  • Simon Maxwell
  • Emily Ballou
  • Sophia Mogford
Producers
  • Ian Collie
  • Rob Gibson
  • Ally Henville
Cinematography
  • Gary Phillips
  • Emma Paine
Running time45–49 minutes
Production companies
  • Easy Tiger Productions
  • Motive Pictures
Original release
Network Paramount+
Release1 September 2023 (2023-09-01)

One Night is an Australian drama television series made by Easy Tiger Productions and Motive Pictures for Paramount+. It is written and created by Emily Ballou and stars Jodie Whittaker, Nicole da Silva and Yael Stone.

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Plot

The series follows Tess, Simone and Hat, three friends whose lives have been changed by the traumatic events of one night in their home town twenty years previously. After that night, only Hat remained in the town, but they all reunite when Simone comes back to look after her father with dementia, and Tess brings her wife and kids from the UK to spend a year in Sydney. Without telling the other two, Simone has written a novel, One Night, about what happened to them. As it becomes a bestseller, the women relive the painful memories and discover old secrets.

Cast

Production

Emily Ballou is creator and writer of the project with episodes directed by Catherine Millar and Lisa Matthews. [1] Ian Collie, Rob Gibson and Ally Henville are producers for Easy Tiger Productions on the project. Simon Maxwell is executive producer for Motive Pictures, with Harriet Creelman, co-executive producer and Emily Ballou also serving as executive producer. [2]

Casting

Jodie Whittaker, Yael Stone, and Nicole da Silva were announced as leads on the series in February 2023. Also announced as among the cast were George Mason, Erroll Shand, Noni Hazlehurst, Tina Bursill, Damien Strouthos and Jillian Nguyen. [3]

Filming

Filming started in early 2023 in Sydney, Australia and the Illawarra region of New South Wales. [4]

Broadcast

The series was released in Australia on Paramount+ on 1 September 2023. [5] It is set to come to Paramount+ UK and Ireland November 24 2023 [6] [7] but was removed by February 2024. [8] It is now available to stream in Australia on Netflix.

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