Summer Love Series Premiere Wed 31 August on ABC TV

Summer Love is an eight part anthology series in which each episode is imagined by a different writer, yet is imbued with the same warmth, humour and romance. Told from eight diverse perspectives, the series travels across gender, class and culture.

It’s the guestbook at the airbnb exploding into life. Inside the house we have access to stories that we otherwise might not see – and we might not understand.

The core premise – guests at a holiday house each experiencing some version of love – acts as a unifying reminder of our shared humanity while allowing the difference of people’s circumstances, customs, concerns and obstacles to be heard and felt.

Created by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, two of Australia’s most experienced narrative comedy writers, the tone of Summer Love is funny, warm and moving. The concept of love bears wildly divergent interpretations across the series but all the stories are fused by Gristmill’s trademark comic and smart- with-heart story telling.

In the first episode, Jules & Tom & Jonah & Steph, two couples travel to the house for their traditional summer holiday. The difference this year is that Steph (Harriet Dyer) and Jonah (Stephen Curry) have Molly: their toddler who takes up more space than she did last year.

The tension builds between the judgemental childless couple, Jules (Sibylla Budd) and Tom (Patrick Brammall), and the helicopter parents until it explodes into all the unexpressed grievances, dormant in the friendship until now.

Jules & Tom & Jonah & Steph is written by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer. Directed by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope.

Summer Love is A Gristmill Production. Major production investment from Screen Australia inassociation with VicScreen, the ABC and Kinetic Content. Episode 1 written by Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer. Produced by: Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope. Associate Producer: Louisa Kors. Executive Producers: Robyn Butler, Wayne Hope and Greg Sitch. ABC Executive Producer: Todd Abbott. Kinetic Content Executive Producers: Chris Coelen and Melissa Myers.

Airdate: Wednesday 31 August 2022 at 9.00pm on ABC TV.

Season 1 Episode 1