TRUELOVE

TURNING THE MODERN LOVE STORY ON ITS HEAD, this Channel 4 series promises to break the rules for older characters on screen with a story featuring a core cast of actors in their 60s and 70s. Phil, played by Julie Walters, is an ex-senior police chief experiencing a boring retirement, while Clarke Peters (pictured) plays Ken, a divorcee and ex-special forces vet who feels similarly at sea. They were teenage sweethearts and despite life having moved on, they have never quite managed to forget each other. When they reunite years later at a funeral, talk turns to the ‘ideal’ death, and they agree to help each other die when the time is right.