UK viewers have had to wait a long time for the series that aired in Austrlia two years ago
The series stars a Doctor Who legend in its lead role(Image: Paramount+)
One Night is landing on ITV tonight, but what’s it about, who’s in it and where have you seen them before?
It’s been a stellar year for UK TV to date, with a number of series from these shores taking off both at home and abroad.
The most talked about series of 2025 is Adolescence, with the Steven Graham Netflix mini-series driving important conversations at home and in the Government.
Scottish crime drama Dept. Q, Disney+’s A Thousand Blows and ITV’s Code of Silence have also been extremely well received with viewers.
Looking to become the nation’s next obsession is an ITV series, which stars a Doctor Who legend in its lead role.
What is One Night about?
Previously released in 2023 in Australia, UK viewers have had to wait two years to see what all the hype about One Night is out.
The series follows three friends, who reunite after one traumatic night 20 years ago that has continued shaped their lives ever since.
Jodie Whittaker stars in ITV drama One Night (Image: Jim Dyson/Redferns)
Hopes of keeping their secret hidden become tricky when one of the friends writes a bestselling novel about what they did.
The series is perfect for fans of HBO’s Nicole Kidman series Big Little Lies, with plenty of twists and turns arriving in every episode.
ITV’s plot synopsis reads: “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.”
One Night’s cast
Jodie Whittaker as TessNicole da Silva as SimoneYael Stone as HatGeorge Mason as JoeyKat Stewart as VickiErroll Shand as TrevorNoni Hazelhurst as MaryDamien Strouthos as MarkMikaela Binns-Rorke as Young TessBridgette Armstrong as Young SimoneBella Ridway as Young HatWhere you’ve seen the cast of One Night before
The series lead Jodie Whittaker is best known for her spell playing the 13th Doctor in Doctor Who from 2017 until 2018. Whittaker made a cameo in Ncuti Gatwa’s final episode, providing some words of wisdom for her successor.
Outside of this, Jodie has starred in cult classic film Attack the Block, played a grieving mum in Broadchurch and won rave reviews earlier in the year for Netflix series Toxic Town.
Australian actress Nicole da Silva is best known for starring in Wentworth for eight seasons, having also appeared in Doctor Doctor, Rush and Carla Cametti PD.
Orange is the New Black fans will recognise Yael Stone from playing Lorna Morello in the prison drama, as well as starring alongside Ben Affleck in Deep Water.
The rest of the main cast is filled out by George Mason, who played bad boy Ash in Home and Away, and Kat Stewart, who played Billie Proudman in Offspring.
One Night airs at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX