The first images of the Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel “One Day” have been released.
The highly anticipated TV series will be available on the streaming service on February 8, 2024.
Starring White Lotus actor Leo Woodall and This Is Going To Hurt’s Ambika Mod, the 14-part series follows Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew as they speak for the first time on July 15, 1988, the evening of their university graduation in Edinburgh.
The next morning they go their separate ways, but the novel and the television series catch up with them on the same day every year.
Each episode features Dex and Em, a year older, on that particular day, as they grow and change, come together and part, experience joy and heartbreak.
First images of the Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel One Day have been released ahead of its February 8 release
Starring White Lotus actor Leo Woodall and This Is Going To Hurt’s Ambika Mod, the 14-part series follows Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew
The cast also includes Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson, who will play Dex’s wife Sylvie.
The cast is rounded out by personalities such as Essie Davis (“Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries”), Tim McInnerny (“Blackadder”), Toby Stephens (“Die Another Day”) and Joely Richardson (“Lady Chatterley”).
The decades-long love story is based on the 2009 novel by David Nicholls, which has sold over five million copies worldwide.
It’s not the first time that the story of Emma and Dexter has come to the big screen. A film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess was released in 2011 but received mixed reviews.
Jan Moir, writing for the Chron at the time, reviewed the film “as wrong as Anne Hathaway’s accent”.
While Nicholls wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film, Scottish screenwriter Nicole Taylor led the writing team for the Netflix adaptation.
Taylor won a BAFTA for best writer in 2017 for her BBC series Three Girls about the Rochdale nursing scandal.
Nicholls is on board as an executive producer.
They speak for the first time on July 15, 1988, the night of their graduation, before going their separate ways, but history catches up with them on the same day every year.
Each episode features Dex and Em, a year older, on that particular day, as they grow and change, come together and part, experience joy and heartbreak
The decades-long love story is based on the 2009 novel by David Nicholls, which has sold over five million copies worldwide
The 14-part series stars 27-year-old White Lotus actor Leo Woodall, who won fans as Jack in the HBO hit
Ambika, 28, is best known for her role as Shruti Acharya in the BBC drama This is Going to Hurt
It’s not the first time that the story of Emma and Dexter has come to the big screen. A film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess was released in 2011 but received mixed reviews
Lead actor Ambika previously told RadioTimes.com that the series will be able to give “more time” to the decade-long book as each episode will be dedicated to each year in the friends’ lives.
“I really enjoyed the film, but I think a lot of people felt – and I agree – that an hour and a half film is usually not enough to dedicate to this epic novel that spans 20 years,” says she explains.
“Hopefully we can cover more topics and look at the story in more detail in our series.”
“I think the way our authors are going about it is really nice, and hopefully people can just see more of the book in the series.”