Truelove: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Phil is an ex-senior police chief enjoying a comfortable if boring retirement, and Ken is a divorcee and ex-special forces vet who feels similarly at sea. Phil and Ken were teenage sweethearts and despite life having moved on, they have never quite managed to forget each other.

Cut to a friend's funeral many years later where Phil and Ken, along with a gang of old friends, are reunited. At the wake, with nostalgia and booze flowing in equal measure, talk soon takes a meditative turn and the group discuss what an 'ideal' death might look like. The gang make a drunken pact: rather than let each other suffer a slow and dreadful decline, they will step in and engineer a dignified death. In short, they will help each other die when the time is right. Because that, they all agree, is a sign of Truelove. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality....

Series details

• Title: Truelove
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Thriller
• Premiere date: 2024-01-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 2024-01-18
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 62176
• IMDb ID: tt20453286
• TVDB ID: 431260

Cast and credited roles

• Lindsay Duncan — Philippa 'Phil' Leach
• Clarke Peters — Ken Holding

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2024-01-03; final listed air date 2024-01-18; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Truelove on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.