Truelove (TV series)
Truelove is an upcoming six-part British comedy-drama series for Channel 4 starring Lindsay Duncan and Clarke Peters. The series asks the question: “is it ever right to help end a life?” and was created by Charlie Covell and Iain Weatherby for Clerkenwell Films.

Synopsis
Phil (Duncan) and Ken (Peters) were teenage sweethearts, now in their vintage, who never quite managed to forget each other, are reunited in their 70s at a nostalgia-filled drunken wake in which they and fellow mourners agree to help each other avoid the slow decline into death in favour of engineering dignified deaths.

Cast
 Lindsay Duncan as Phil 
 Clarke Peters as Ken
 Sue Johnston
 Phil Davis
 Peter Egan
 Karl Johnson
 Fiona Button
 Kiran Sonia Sawar

Production
The series was announced  by Channel 4 in May 2022 from a script written by Iain Weatherby and produced by Charlie Covell and Weatherby for Clerkenwell Films. Producer is Alex Walsh-Taylor with Emily Harrison, Andy Baker, Petra Fried, Covell and Weatherby as executive producers and Elliot Hegarty and Rachna Suri as directors.

Casting
Julie Walters was attached to the project. However, after production was paused for Walters to consult with doctors over severe back pain she ultimately had to pull out due to health problems. She was replaced in the cast by Lindsay Duncan and all other cast members were able to return for filming to reconvene.

Filming
Filming got underway in Clevedon, Burnham-on-Sea, and Bristol in the summer of 2022. After a hiatus filming had resumed in Bristol and Clevedon by May 2023.

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2024 British television series debuts
2020s British comedy-drama television series
Upcoming drama television series
English-language television shows
Television shows shot in Bristol