It’s almost time to to head to Briar University for the first season of Off Campus, and The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive look at a scene from the show.
Based on the Elle Kennedy books of the same name, the romance series follows a college hockey team and the women in their lives. The show, set to debut on Prime Video tomorrow, tackles the typical college woes, along with some heavier topics, and will focus its first season on Ella Bright’s Hannah Wells and Belmont Cameli’s Garrett Graham.
Bright’s Hannah is a music student, so unsurprisingly, music plays a large part in the series. In the exclusive clip below, Hannah collaborates with Justin (played by Josh Heuston) a fellow musician and the frontman of the show’s fictional band After Hours. Hannah’s entering the school’s pop music showcase and has enlisted Justin to help write lyrics for a melody she composed.
The song, “Yellow Haze,” will be featured on the official Off Campus soundtrack, also releasing tomorrow (May 13) from Island Records. The 16-song album features a blend of original music from Asha Banks, The Two Lips and more, along with music from Remi Wolf and After Hours, the fictional band. The Two Lips’ “In Every Lifetime” was featured in the show’s trailer and was debuted at a live show in Los Angeles last month with members of the cast.
The Off Campus soundtrack includes four original song — the show has 19 on-camera performances throughout it’s first season, according to a release. Hannah sings an original song by Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Amy Allen and Ethan Gruska in the season finale.
The book series Off Campus, which begins with The Deal, follows a new-but-connected couple in each book. The show, which follows The Deal’s storyline, plans to keep that model. Season one dives headfirst into the age-old romantic trope of fake dating with music student Hannah Wells, who, in true hockey fashion, is often called Wellsy by her love interest, Garrett Graham. Graham is the son of a professional hockey legend and captain of Briar University’s hockey team.
Bright told THR at the show’s premiere that one of the show’s many musical moments was the scene she was most excited for the audience to see. “There is a really fun musical element in the first episode that I had the privilege of getting to perform in it. The song that I get to perform was my manifestation song for the whole audition process,” the 19-year-old actress explained. “It ended up being in the top [two] on my Spotify Wrapped.”
Other series regulars include Mika Abdalla (Snack Shack), Antonio Cipriano (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin), Jalen Thomas Brooks (The Pitt), Heuston (Dune: Prophecy) and Stephen Kalyn (Gen V). Fans of the book series will be excited to see the whole Briar U gang together throughout the series. Among some of these series regulars are lead characters from other novels in Kennedy’s Off Campus series. It’s yet to be announced which book will be adapted for the second season, which was already announced well before the show’s debut.
Louisa Levy serves as the co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Gina Fattore. Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and James Seidman executive produce for Temple Hill. Leanna Billings of Billings Productions and Neal Flaherty also serve as executive producers on the series.
Prime Video will drop all episodes of the first season of Off Campus on May 13.
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