Jodie Whittaker's 'One Night' Will Hopefully Find An American Distributer One Day

The drumbeat that the end of Paramount as a standalone company is nigh is getting louder. The end of 2023 brought headlines that the head of Warner Brothers Discovery, the infamous David Zaslav, responsible for canceling many of our favorite shows because they weren't heteronormative enough, didn't center cis white men with daddy issues, or were just plain too smart, was in talks to try and buy Paramount hit newspapers, but that was all for show. Warner Brothers Discovery isn't allowed to buy any more companies until a certain amount of time has passed since its last merger, and Paramount isn't going to last that long.

Currently, the best bet is that it will be bought up by Skydance, responsible for a lot of Apple TV+ and Amazon series. While that might not be great news for Paramount, it could be for all the shows currently floating around with homes on American streaming, like Paramount+ Australia's One Night, which debuted in September 2023 in its home country and in November in the U.K. and Ireland but currently has no distributor in the U.S. Starring Jodie Whittaker in her first role after leaving Doctor Who, the six-part drama follows the story of a group of childhood friends who are forced to revisit a shared traumatic event when one of them publishes a book with a premise that hits a little too close to home. (Translation: It is absolutely based on the worst night of their lives, just published anonymously.)

The series debuted to rave reviews in Australia, causing one paper to call it the series that took Paramount+ up to the level of a major streamer. U.K. reviewers also hailed the series as Whittaker giving a breakout performance, ensuring her career had life after playing the Doctor. Her two main co-stars, Australian actors Nicole da Silva (Doctor Doctor) and Yael Stone (Picnic at Hanging Rock), also garnered high praise.