Paramount+ has confirmed that cameras are now rolling on One Night, a new six-part original drama series. The new character-driven mystery about female friendships under incredible emotional and existential strain, from Easy Tiger and Motive Pictures.
Created and written by the award-winning Emily Ballou (The Slap) and directed by Catherine Millar (The Secrets She Keeps) and Lisa Matthews (Doctor Doctor), 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.
Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who), Nicole da Silva (Wentworth) and Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black) lead an ensemble cast including George Mason (The Power of the Dog), Erroll Shand (Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud), Noni Hazlehurst (A Place To Call Home), Tina Bursill (Doctor Doctor), Damien Strouthos (The Twelve) and Jillian Nguyen (Barons).
The series is produced by Easy Tiger’s Ian Collie, Rob Gibson and Ally Henville with Motive Pictures’ Simon Maxwell as executive producer and Harriet Creelman, co-executive producer. Written by Emily Ballou, who also serves as executive producer.
