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The Road Trip. Image shows left to right: Dylan (Laurie Davidson), Addie (Emma Appleton). Credit: Paramount
The Road Trip

The Road Trip

  • TV comedy drama
  • Paramount+
  • 2024
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Comedy drama based on the best-selling book by Beth O'Leary. Also features Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland and Angus Imrie

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The Road Trip. Image shows left to right: Addie (Emma Appleton), Deb (Isabella Laughland), Marcus (David Jonsson), Rodney (Angus Imrie), Dylan (Laurie Davidson). Credit: Paramount

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2024
Channel
Paramount+
Episodes
6 (1 series)
Creator
Beth O'Leary
Stars
Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland and Angus Imrie
Writers
Beth O'Leary, Ryan O'Sullivan, Matilda Wnek, Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Waleed Akhtar
Directors
China Moo-Young and Stella Corradi
Producers
Nikki Wilson, Miriam Brent, Rory Aitken, Eleanor Moran, Ryan O'Sullivan, Matilda Wnek and Kingsley Hoskins
Company

The Road Trip is a witty, contemporary, emotionally complex romantic comedy about giving love another shot. Can someone be the right person, just at the wrong time? And is there ever a future in returning to a past love?

Addie and her sister are on a road trip to a friend's wedding in Spain when they are forced to share the ride with Addie's ex Dylan, his irrepressible best friend Marcus, and complete stranger Rodney. With nowhere to hide but a creaky campervan, the group must confront their buried history as secrets and revelations cause many a bump in the road.

Intercutting between the past and present, we will follow Addie and Dylan's intoxicating love affair in the past - which started as a holiday romance one heady summer - alongside the hotbed of secrets and surreal escapades of the road trip in the present. Everyone has a different idea of what really happened between Addie and Dylan. But how and why did they break up? Who was to blame? And will their journey back to where they first fell in love bring a happy-ever-after?

With all the fun of Planes, Trains And Automobiles, and the misty-eyed nostalgia for summer love of Normal People, The Road Trip is a modern, heart-warming story about love in your late twenties. A kaleidoscopic rom-com, it explores love in all its guises through a trio of unforgettable relationships: a class-divided romance, a codependent bromance, and a knotty but affectionate sisterly bond.

Additional details

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

Recording details

  • Bristol
  • Gran Canaria

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