Summer Love (TV series)

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Kodie Bedford
Robyn Butler
Nina Buxton
Wayne Hope

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Robyn Butler
Wayne Hope
Greg Sitch

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Robyn Butler
Wayne Hope

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Gristmill Productions
Kinetic Content

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Summer Love is an Australian anthology ensemble comedy series on ABC TV, first airing on 31 August 2022. The eight-part anthology series was created and produced by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope.{{cite web | title=New comedy Summer Love checks in to the ABC in 2022 |series= Media release | website=Screen Australia | date=25 November 2021 | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2021/11-25-new-comedy-summer-love-abc | access-date=3 September 2022}}{{cite web | title=Airdate: Summer Love | website=TV Tonight | date=20 December 2021 | url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/07/airdate-summer-love.html | access-date=3 September 2022}}

Premise

An anthology series which sees eight very different sets of people rent the same beachside holiday house through the theme of love.

Cast

=Episode 1=

Patrick Brammall as Tom
Harriet Dyer as Steph
Stephen Curry as Jonah
Sibylla Budd as Jules
Evelyn Pell & Mila Pell as Molly
Matt Dower as FM Radio DJ

=Episode 2=

Miranda Tapsell as Kelly
Richard Davies as Craig
Lana Golga as Surf Shop Assistant
Nicolette Minster as Deedee
David Quirk as Bryron
Roxanne McDonald as Elsie
Rachel Pepper as Mother from Surf Shop
Lisa Mitrov as Waitress

=Episode 3=

Nazeem Hussain as Imran
Sana'a Shaik as Nabilah
Shapoor Batliwalla as Jaaved
Jane Harber as Caiti
Sukhdeep Singh Bhogal (L-FRESH The LION) as Sukhdeep
David Quirk as Byron

=Episode 4=

Robyn Butler as Marion
Wayne Hope as Eddy

=Episode 5=

Tim Draxl as Luke
Harry McNaughton as Olly
Blake Richardson as Jett

=Episode 6=

Chenoa Deemal as Charlie
Bjorn Stewart as Zeke
Jarron Andy as Ben
Shakira Clanton as Finlay
Charles Wu as Roger
Jason Klarwein as Jason

=Episode 7=

Alison Bell as Hannah
Annie Maynard as Alex
Claudia Greenstone as Mum
Nick Russell as Dad
Talia Hoskins Green as Young Hannah
Gisele Field as Young Alex
Harvey Devlin as Otto
Noah Percy as Raphael
Travis Cotton as Rob
Alicia Banit as Ella

=Episode 8=

Johnny Carr as Dan
Charlotte Maggi as Frankie
Morgana O'Reilly as Becky
Keith Robinson as Poseidon Trevor
Bev Killick as Bev

Production

Each of the eight episodes is written by a different writing team. The writing teams comprise: creators Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, along with Kodie Bedford and Bjorn Stewart; Alison Bell; Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer; Nazeem Hussain; Kate Mulvany; Miranda Tapsell and James Colley; Jayden Masciulli and Nath Valvo.

Episodes

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 1

|Title = Jules and Tom &
Jonah and Steph

|DirectedBy = Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope

|WrittenBy = Patrick Brammall & Harriet Dyer

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|08|31|df=y}}

|Viewers = 290,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/09/wednesday-31-august-2022.html|title=Wednesday 31 August 2022|date=1 September 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=8 September 2022}}

|ShortSummary = Two couples, Tom (Patrick Brammall) and Jules (Sibylla Budd) & Jonah (Stephen Curry) and Steph (Harriet Dyer), travel to the house for their traditional summer holiday. The difference this year is that Steph and Jonah have their toddler Molly who takes up more space than she did last year.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 2

|Title = Kelly & Craig

|DirectedBy = Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope

|WrittenBy = James Colley & Miranda Tapsell

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|09|07|df=y}}

|Viewers = 246,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/09/wednesday-7-september-2022.html|title=Wednesday 7 September 2022|date=8 September 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=8 September 2022}}

|ShortSummary = When Kelly (Miranda Tapsell) and Craig (Richard Davies) become parents to an orphaned joey, they are forced to consider what it would mean to be actual parents of an Aboriginal child.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 3

|Title = Imran & Nabilah

|DirectedBy = Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope

|WrittenBy = Nazeem Hussain

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|09|14|df=y}}

|Viewers = 266,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/09/seven-leads-with-queens-procession-nine-wins-wednesday.html|title=Seven leads with Queen's procession, Nine wins Wednesday.|date=15 September 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=15 September 2022}}

|ShortSummary = Imran (Nazeem Hussain), a Muslim man, grapples with the consequences of his dad's abandonment, one of them being him running away from his girlfriend, Nabilah (Sana’a Shaik), during their weekend together.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 4

|Title = Marion & Eddy

|DirectedBy = Nina Buxton

|WrittenBy = Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|09|21|df=y}}

|Viewers = 276,000{{cite web|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/09/wednesday-21-september-2022.html|title=Wednesday 21 September 2022|website=TV Tonight|date=22 September 2022|access-date=22 September 2022|first=David|last=Knox}}

|ShortSummary = After a double booking forces them to stay together, Marion (Robyn Butler) and Eddy (Wayne Hope) find themselves challenging the behaviours that led to each of their divorces.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 5

|Title = Luke & Olly

|DirectedBy = Nina Buxton

|WrittenBy = Jayden Masciulli & Nath Valvo

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|09|28|df=y}}

|Viewers = 217,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/09/wednesday-28-september-2022.html|title=Wednesday 28 September 2022|date=29 September 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=2 October 2022}}

|ShortSummary = Luke (Tim Draxl) and Olly (Harry McNaughton) confront societal expectations of being gay men versus what they actually want as a happy couple.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 6

|Title = Charlie & Zeke

|DirectedBy = Kodie Bedford

|WrittenBy = Kodie Bedford & Bjorn Stewart

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|10|05|df=y}}

|Viewers = 226,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/10/wednesday-5-october-2022.html|title=Wednesday 5 October 2022|date=6 October 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=10 October 2022}}

|ShortSummary = While on a trial separation, Charlie (Chenoa Deemal) and Zeke (Bjorn Stewart) both come to the house for their traditional anniversary weekend and neither is willing to give it up.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 7

|Title = Hannah & Alex

|DirectedBy = Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope

|WrittenBy = Alison Bell

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|10|12|df=y}}

|Viewers = 236,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/10/wednesday-12-october-2022.html|title=Wednesday 12 October 2022|date=13 October 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=13 October 2022}}

|ShortSummary = Two sisters, Hannah (Alison Bell) and Alex (Annie Maynard), leave their chaotic family lives behind for a recharge night together but somehow bring the chaos with them.

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber = 8

|Title = Frankie & Trevor

|DirectedBy = Robyn Butler & Wayne Hope

|WrittenBy = Kate Mulvany

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|10|19|df=y}}

|Viewers = 272,000{{cite web|last=Knox|first=David|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2022/10/wednesday-19-october-2022.html|title=Wednesday 19 October 2022|date=20 October 2022|website=TV Tonight|publisher=TV Tonight|access-date=20 October 2022}}

|ShortSummary = The cleaners of the holiday house, Becky (Morgana O'Reilly) and Dan (Johnny Carr), are interrupted by their troubled niece, Frankie (Charlotte Maggi), who comes to stay, and the sudden arrival of Trevor (Keith Robinson), a man with a disability on the front lawn.

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Awards and nominations

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rowspan=4 scope="row"\| 2022 \| rowspan=4\| AACTA Awards{{cite web\|url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/\|title=2022 AACTA Awards: Winners & Noms\|website=aacta.org\|access-date=31 July 2023}} \| Best Television Comedy Series \| Summer Love \| {{nom}}
rowspan=2\| Best Comedy Performer \| Harriet Dyer \| {{nom}}
Patrick Brammall \| {{nom}}
Best Sound in Television \| Scott Findlay, Nick Godkin, Justin Lloyd – Episode 1: Jules and Tom & Jonah and Steph \| {{nom}}
rowspan=2 scope="row"\| 2023 \| rowspan=2\| Logie Awards{{cite web\|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/07/logie-awards-2023-winners.html\|title=2023 Logie Awards: Winners & Noms\|website=tvtonight.com.au\|access-date=31 July 2023}} \| Most Outstanding Comedy Program \| Summer Love \| {{nom}}
Most Popular Actor \| Patrick Brammall \| {{nom}}

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rowspan=4 scope="row"| 2022

| rowspan=4| AACTA Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/|title=2022 AACTA Awards: Winners & Noms|website=aacta.org|access-date=31 July 2023}}

| Best Television Comedy Series

| Summer Love

| {{nom}}

rowspan=2| Best Comedy Performer

| Harriet Dyer

| {{nom}}

Patrick Brammall

| {{nom}}

Best Sound in Television

| Scott Findlay, Nick Godkin, Justin Lloyd – Episode 1: Jules and Tom & Jonah and Steph

| {{nom}}

rowspan=2 scope="row"| 2023

| rowspan=2| Logie Awards{{cite web|url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/07/logie-awards-2023-winners.html|title=2023 Logie Awards: Winners & Noms|website=tvtonight.com.au|access-date=31 July 2023}}

| Most Outstanding Comedy Program

| Summer Love

| {{nom}}