A film crew has been spotted near Park Street in Bristol city centre for a major new Channel 4 show. Filming has resumed for an upcoming six-part British comedy-drama series Truelove after a major star pulled out last year. It has been filmed in locations across the city and has taken over Pizza On The Park and Berkeley Square today (May 9).
Truelove was announced by the broadcaster a year ago with filming commencing in the summer at locations in Cleveland, Burnham-on-Sea, and Bristol. Julie Walters was initially attached to the project and was spotted enjoying a cup of tea last June at UWE's Frenchay campus, but the star was forced to pull out as the lead due to health problems.
Walters was replaced in the cast by Lindsay Duncan and the other actors were able to return for filming to reconvene. Other actors include a star of the hit US show The Wire, Clarke Peters, and The Royale Family's Sue Johnston.
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The series follows Phil (Duncan) and Ken (Peters) who were teenage sweethearts as they are reunited in their 70s at a nostalgia-filled drunken wake. The pair and fellow mourners make a drunken pact to help each other avoid the slow decline into death in favour of engineering dignified deaths.
Pictures taken by Bristol Mosaic show lorries, vans and crew members surrounding Berkeley Square with filming taking place inside Pizza on the Park. Both Lindsay Duncan and Kiran Sonia Sawar were seen on set.
BristolLive contacted Pizza on the Park's representatives for comment who confirmed filming was taking place but was due to finish at the restaurant today (May 9).
There is not yet an air date for the Channel 4 series. It's written an co-produced by Iain Weatherby and produced by Charlie Covell for Clerkenwell Films, the team behind BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 series The End Of The F***ing World. It is produced by Alex Walsh-Taylor with Emily Harrison, Andy Baker, Petra Fried, Covell and Weatherby as executive producers and Elliot Hegarty and Rachna Suri as directors.
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