First look images from Netflix’s adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel One Day have been released.
The anticipated TV series will arrive 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-episode series follows Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew who, on 15th July 1988, the night of their Edinburgh University graduation, speak for the very first time.
The next morning, they go their separate ways but the novel and TV series catches up with them on the same day every year.
Each episode finds Dex and Em, one year older, on this one particular date, as they grow and change, move together and apart, experience joy and heartbreak.
First look images from Netflix ‘s adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel One Day have been released ahead of its release on February 8
Starring White Lotus actor Leo Woodall and This Is Going To Hurt’s Ambika Mod, the 14-episode series follows Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew
The cast also features Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson, who will play Dex’s wife Sylvie.
The cast is rounded out by the likes of Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries), Tim McInnerny (Blackadder), Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) and Joely Richardson (Lady Chatterley).
The decades-spanning 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 Emma and Dexter’s story has found its way to screen. A movie starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess was released in 2011, but received mixed reviews.
Jan Moir writing for the Daily Mail at the time reviewed the movie ‘as fake as Anne Hathaway’s accent.’
While Nicholls wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film, Scottish screenwriter Nicole Taylor has headed the writing team for the Netflix adaptation.
Taylor won a BAFTA for Best Writer for her 2017 BBC series Three Girls about the Rochdale grooming scandal.
Nicholls is on board as an executive producer.
On 15th July 1988, the night of their graduation, they speak for the very first time before going their separate ways but the story catches up with them on the same day every year.
Each episode finds Dex and Em, one year older, on this one particular date, as they grow and change, move together and apart, experience joy and heartbreak
The decades-spanning love story is based on the 2009 novel by David Nicholls, which has sold over five million copies worldwide
The 14 part series stars White Lotus actor Leo Woodall, 27, 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 Emma and Dexter’s story has found its way to screen. A movie starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess was released in 2011, but received mixed reviews
Lead star Ambika previously told RadioTimes.com that the series will be able to give ‘more time’ to the decades-spanning book, with each episode dedicated to each year in the friends’ lives.
‘I really enjoyed the film, but I think a lot of people felt that – and I would agree – that an hour-and-a-half movie isn’t usually enough to dedicate to this epic novel that spans 20 years,’ she explained.
‘So, hopefully, in our series we’ll be able to cover more ground and sort of zoom in on the story with more detail.’
‘I think the way that our writers are going about it is really beautiful, and hopefully people will just be able to see more of the book in the series.’