Twisty Friendship Thriller 'Truelove' to Premiere in March on Acorn TV

How far would you go for a friend? Lie for them? Keep a secret? Help them kill themselves if they asked you to? That's the ethical quandry at the heart of Truelove, a thriller with a uniquely emotional twist that's set to arrive on Acorn TV this March.

The six-part drama follows a group of old friends who are forced to contront the creeping spector of their own mortality when one of their cohort passes away. At the wake, armed with booze and nostalgia, they make a pact: when the time comes, rather than letting one another suffer a painful decline, they'll help each other have dignified deaths That's what love — real love — means, doesn't it? But what starts as a fanciful idea all too soon becomes a shocking reality. And as the series continues, it asks difficult questions about the ethics of ending a life and the difficult choices older people must make when attempting to navigate their twilight years.

The series was initially meant to star Julie Walters (Indian Summers), but the actress had to bow out due to the cancer treatment she was undergoing at the time of filming. Lindsay Duncan (The Wheel of Time) stepped in to play Phil, an ex-police officer bored by the bland sameness of retirement. At the funeral, she reconnects with her former teenage sweetheart Ken (Clarke Peters), now a divorced ex-special forces veteran who feels similar at sea in his current era of life. These two would make an ideal duo to help carry out their group agreement but at what cost to them both?