Series synopsis
Being Eve is a drama comedy soap family television series that premiered on Three on August 25, 2001. It ended on December 30, 2002. It stars Fleur Saville, David de Lautour, Stephen Lovatt and James Napier Robertson.
Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.
Premise
Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001–2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focuses on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems. Her parents are divorced but live next door to each other. Eve was in love with a boy named Adam. They broke up at the beginning of the second season, and she ends up with another boy named Sam Hooper, whom she had her first kiss with when they were kids.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Fleur Saville
- David de Lautour as Adam Le Beau
- Stephen Lovatt
- James Napier Robertson
- Leighton Cardno
- Renee Leonard-Rogers
- Joanna Morrison
- Alison Bruce
Supporting cast
- Jay Ryan as Sam Hooper
- Michelle O'Brien
- Paul Barrett
- Tandi Wright
Guest cast
- Brett O’Gorman as Oliver Tucker
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 26 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | August 25, 2001 | November 17, 2001 |
| Season 2 | 13 | June 30, 2002 | December 30, 2002 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Being in Love Eve questions the idea of true love. As soon as she convinces herself that there is no such thing, she is stopped in her tracks by the arrival of a new boy in class. |
August 25, 2001 |
| 2 |
Being Popular When Eve learns that she is one of the only people in her class not to have been invited to Charlotte's birthday party she attempts to maintain her dignity whilst pondering the meaning of popularity. |
September 1, 2001 |
| 3 |
Being Beautiful A school art assignment on the perfect human form leads to Eve becoming obsessed with expressing her vision through molding clay. Her fixation on the project leads her family to mistake her behavior for an eating disorder. Meanwhile, Sylvie puts herself on a fad diet in order to curb her addiction to junk food. |
September 8, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Being Heartbroken Eve is devastated when Adam is forced to break up with her because he has to move far away to live with his father. She takes on all these extracurricular to keep herself busy and attempts to clear her mind of Adam. Trying to balance all these things out proves to be overwhelming for Eve as her thoughts of her relationship with Adam spills into her school work and daily life. The stress results in her receiving a ""D"" on her class movie review paper of ""Gone With the Wind"" where she bad mouths the characters of the movie because of the romantic and break up parts of the story that she connects with her personal pain over her own breakup. Mr. Inglewood understands what Eve is going through and gives he another chance to revise the paper. Sylvie becomes worried about her friend and tries to help her realize that she is having a hard time dealing and is heartbroken over the breakup with Adam, but Eve does not want to believe that. So Sylvie decides to take action by swearing off hook |
June 30, 2002 |
| 2 |
Being History Eve is angry with Sam who she shared her first kiss with denies that it ever happened. |
July 1, 2002 |
| 3 |
Being Famous Sam tapes skits done by his fellow classmates and airs them on TV. When it's Sylvie's turn to shine, she turns to Eve for help and has Eve write her script for her. Eve has a dream that she and Sylvie will be famous together. Slyvie becuase of her acting and Eve because she writes everything. But when Sylvie does great and takes all the credit, Eve gets angry and pretends she's too busy to write anymore for Sylvie. She then decides to do her own skit. But when she gets the chance, she gets camera fright and ends up goofing up the skit over and over again. Sam says he will only show the good parts on TV and Eve believes him. When her skit shows up on TV, Sam turns it into a blooper skit and humiliates her. |
July 2, 2002 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Three |
|---|---|
| First aired | August 25, 2001 |
| Last aired | December 30, 2002 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Status | Ended |