# Newton's Law (TV series)

Newton's Law is an Australian television drama series that began airing on ABC TV on 9 February 2017. The eight-part series was developed from an original concept by Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger.

## Premise

The series follows Josephine Newton (Claudia Karvan), a suburban solicitor with an overdeveloped sense of responsibility who attempts to return to her briefly glorious stint at the Bar. After Josephine's modest neighborhood solicitor's practice is incinerated by arson, she is persuaded by an old university friend and not-so-secret admirer, Lewis Hughes QC (Toby Schmitz), to join the high-flying Knox Chambers. With her marriage collapsing and motherhood fast losing its charm, Josephine decides it's time to again put on her wig and barrister's robe.

## Cast

* Claudia Karvan as Josephine Newton
* Toby Schmitz as Lewis Hughes QC
* Brett Tucker as Callum Docker
* Georgina Naidu as Helena Chatterjee
* Sean Keenan as Johnny Allbright
* Miranda Tapsell as Skye Stewart
* Andrew McFarlane as Eric Whitley QC
* Jane Hall as Jackie Russo
* Ming-Zhu Hii as Claire Zhang
* Makwaya Masudi as Zareb Mulumba
* Ella Newton as Lydia Newton-Docker
* Freya Stafford as Rose Newton
* Jason Agius as Nikos Aristides
* Simon Maiden as Alan Edgeworth
* Lester Ellis Jr. as Gregor 'Spike' Zdunowski
* Matt Boesenberg as Ryan Wexler
* Ernie Dingo as Frank Stewart
* Alice Ansara as Carla
* Greg Stone as Judge Gregg Halliday
* Marta Kaczmarek as Zora
* Katherine Hicks as Tracey Dingwell
* Heather Mitchell as Caroline Gale
* Andrew Blackman as Lars Svensson
* Eddie Baroo as Shane

## Episodes

| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Director | Writer | Original air date | Australian Viewers |
| 1 | 1 | "External Forces" | Jennifer Leacey | Belinda Chayko | 9 February 2017 (2017-02-09) | 695,000 |
| When her suburban solicitor's office is incinerated by a disgruntled client, Josephine Newton resumes her briefly glorious career at the Bar. |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Butterfly Effect" | Jennifer Leacey | Chris Corbett | 16 February 2017 (2017-02-16) | 546,000 |
| Josephine takes the lead in a gender dysphoria case while, downstairs, Helena defends Lydia against a criminal damage charge. |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Control Therapy" | Jennifer Perrott | Elizabeth Packett | 23 February 2017 (2017-02-23) | 509,000 |
| Josephine & Lewis inherit a murder trial where all the evidence points to the client being guilty, while Johnny & Skye are reluctantly thrown together to help defend Skye's father from an assault charge. |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Uniform Motion" | Jennifer Perrott | Elizabeth Coleman | 2 March 2017 (2017-03-02) | 455,000 |
| Josephine worries she's crossed over to the dark side when representing a furniture conglomerate, but manages to assist the underdog in a downstairs case. |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Newton's Law of Cooling" | Jonathan Brough | Belinda Chayko | 9 March 2017 (2017-03-09) | 480,000 |
| Josephine is surprised that Whitley wants her to represent him in a property dispute, and the downstairs team make their own discoveries in what is ostensibly a simple assault case. |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Uncertainty Principle" | Jonathan Brough | Chris Corbett | 16 March 2017 (2017-03-16) | 484,000 |
| Josephine's high profile asylum seeker kidnapping case is further complicated when Callum intervenes, landing Josephine's witness, and himself, in hot water. |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Terminal Velocity" | Jennifer Leacey | Ellie Beaumont | 23 March 2017 (2017-03-23) | 412,000 |
| As Josephine unexpectedly re-unites with a former client, Lewis' defence of a privileged thief unearths a troubling link between the boy and her sister, Rose. |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Equal & Opposite Forces" | Jennifer Leacey | Elizabeth Coleman | 30 March 2017 (2017-03-30) | 460,000 |
| The upstairs and downstairs teams join forces in a class action, taking on a pharmaceutical company that tried to cover up the side effects resulting from their drug trials. |||||||

## Ratings

| No. | Title | Air date | Overnight ratings | Overnight ratings | Consolidated ratings | Consolidated ratings | Total viewers | Ref(s) |
| No. | Title | Air date | Viewers | Rank | Viewers | Rank | Total viewers | Ref(s) |
| 1 | External Forces | 9 February 2017 | 695,000 | 7 | 137,000 | 6 | 832,000 | |
| 2 | The Butterfly Effect | 16 February 2017 | 546,000 | 15 | 120,000 | 11 | 666,000 | |
| 3 | Control Therapy | 23 February 2017 | 509,000 | 16 | 92,000 | 12 | 602,000 | |
| 4 | Uniform Motion | 2 March 2017 | 455,000 | 17 | 94,000 | 11 | 549,000 | |
| 5 | Newton's Law of Cooling | 9 March 2017 | 480,000 | 15 | 108,000 | 12 | 588,000 | |
| 6 | The Uncertainty Principle | 16 March 2017 | 484,000 | 14 | 92,000 | 8 | 576,000 | |
| 7 | Terminal Velocity | 23 March 2017 | 412,000 | 18 | 96,000 | 13 | 508,000 | |
| 8 | Equal & Opposites Forces | 30 March 2017 | 460,000 | 16 | 88,000 | 9 | 548,000 | |