Paper Dolls (Australian TV series)

Paper Dolls
Genre	Drama
Created by	Ainslie Clouston
Written by	Ainslie Clouston David Hannam Marieke Hardy Sara Khan Jenna Purcell
Directed by	Erin White Nina Buxton Tenika Smith Lynn-Maree Danzey
Starring	Emalia Courtney Clarke Miah Madden Courtney Monsma Naomi Sequeira Emma Booth Ditch Davey Thomas Cocquerel
Music by	Rafael May
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producer	Belinda Chapple
Production location	Sydney
Production company	Helium Pictures
Original release
Network	Paramount+
Release	December 3, 2023 (2023-12-03)

Paper Dolls is an Australian drama television series created by Ainslie Clouston, based on an idea by Belinda Chapple. The series is distributed by Paramount+.

At the 2024 ARIA Music Awards, This is Harlow was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cat Album.[1]

Premise

The show follows five aspiring singers, who are thrust into the spotlight as the pop girl group HARLOW, after being discovered on a reality television show Pop Rush.[2]

Cast and characters

Main

• Emalia as Izzy James
• Miah Madden as Charlie Levett
• Courtney Clarke as Jade Hart
• Naomi Sequeira as Annabel Tonkin
• Courtney Monsma as Lillian Milton
• Emma Booth as Margot Murray, an executive producer for Harlow's record label who works closely with Harlow
• Thomas Cocquerel as Teddy Pearce, Harlow's manager
• Ditch Davey as Roger Levett, the head of Harlow's record label

Recurring

• Fay Du Chateau as Jenny, the group's costume stylist
• Gantanter Singh Gill as Marty, a reality show sound recordist
• Scott Lee as Rob, a reality show camera operator
• Lyndon Watts as Rory, the group's choreographer
• Ben Turland as Eli

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"The Reinvention of Izzy James"	Tenika Smith	Ainslie Clouston	3 December 2023 (2023-12-03)
2	2	"Phoenix Rising"	Tenika Smith	Ainslie Clouston	3 December 2023 (2023-12-03)
3	3	"Be a Maneater"	Nina Buxton	David Hannam	3 December 2023 (2023-12-03)
4	4	"Technicolour Altar"	Nina Buxton	Marieke Hardy	10 December 2023 (2023-12-10)
5	5	"Face Off"	Nina Buxton	Ainslie Clouston and Jenna Purcell	17 December 2023 (2023-12-17)
6	6	"We're on Tour, Bitches"	Erin White	Sara Khan	24 December 2023 (2023-12-24)
7	7	"The Fame Game"	Erin White	Thomas Wilson-White	31 December 2023 (2023-12-31)
8	8	"New Millennium"	Erin White and Lynn-Maree Danzey	Ainslie Clouston	7 January 2024 (2024-01-07)

Production

The series is executive produced by Belinda Chapple and airs on Paramount+. Filming took place at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at its Sydney campus.[3] The series debuted on 3 December 2023 and it will air on Network 10 later in 2024.[4]

EP Track listing

This is Harlow (Music from Paper Dolls)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Monster"	David Björk, Ilira Gashi, Roxanne Emery	3:23
2.	"Can't Touch"	Robby De Sá, Janeva	2:29
3.	"All Night"	E. Carmona, Tormod Løkling, Henrik Moreborg, H. Wilson	3:06
4.	"Your Body"	De Sá, Janeva	2:44
5.	"Back On Top"	Kayla Bonnici, Joel Chapman, Christian Lo Russo, Kayla Rae Haywood	2:46
6.	"Fame"	Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford	2:37
Total length:			17:09

References

1. "ARIA Awards 2024 nominations — everything you need to know". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 September 2024. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
2. "Paper Dolls: Australian Original series lands on Paramount+". Screenhub.com.au. 4 December 2023.
3. Anabel, Anita (3 December 2023). "Paramount+' Paper Dolls feels like a true story, but is it based on fact or fiction?". Mediaweek. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
4. Knox, David (1 December 2023). "Music, nostalgia, TV cameras.... but Paper Dolls is not the Bardot story". TV Tonight. TV Tonight. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

External links

• Paper Dolls at IMDb