A new Stan Original series led by US star Will Forte has locked in its premiere date.
“Sunny Nights”, which was filmed in Australia last year, will hit Stan on Boxing Day with all eight episodes.
The “Saturday Night Live” favourite stars in the new comedy-drama alongside D’Arcy Corden (“Nobody Wants This”, “Barry”, “The Good Place”), as the likes of Rachel House (“Thor: Ragnarok”, Heartbreak High”) Jessica De Gouw (“The Artful Dodger”), Miritana Hughes (“Wakefield”), Ra Chapman (“Wentworth”) and former NRL star Willie Mason in his acting debut.
Per Stan, the series “follows straight-laced Martin (Forte), who teams up with his loose cannon sister, Vicki (Carden), to set up a spray tan business in Sydney. Home to one of the highest skin cancer rates in the world, Australia is also home to Martin’s estranged wife, whom he’s determined to win back. But as Martin and Vicki attempt to turn their company from a start-up operating out of the back of a van into a multi-million-dollar empire, the siblings become tangled up in Sydney’s criminal underworld. When a ruthless gangster begins to catch up with them, the two must figure out how to stay alive, out of prison, and in the black.”
Check out a sneak peek below.
“Sunny Nights” is a Stan Original from Jungle Entertainment (Stan Original “No Activity”, “Population 11”) and Echo Lake Entertainment (“The Great”) in association with Cineflix Rights (“Last King of The Cross”, “Tehran”) with major production investment from Stan and Screen Australia, and financed with support from Screen NSW through the Made in NSW Fund. The series is directed by Trent O’Donnell (Stan Original “Population 11” and “No Activity”, “Colin from Accounts”, “Hacks”), executive produced by O’Donnell, Will Forte, D’Arcy Carden and produced by Bridget Callow. Created and written by Nick Keetch (“Almost Paradise”) and Ty Freer (“High Fire”, “Almost Paradise”), with writers Marieke Hardy, Lally Katz, Clare Sladden and Niki Aken. Stan executive producers are Cailah Scobie and Amanda Duthie. Distributed internationally by Cineflix Rights.
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