True Love

True Love is a five-episode 2012 semi-improvised BBC television drama, which began on BBC One on 17 June 2012. Each episode is a self-contained story (though there is some cross-over between all the episodes), devised through improvisation (a first for BBC One drama), exploring an issue related to love and relationships. Was related to whom True Love had its first public screening at the Turner Contemporary in Margate on 29 March 2012. The series premiered on 17 June 2012 on BBC One, the remaining four episodes being stripped across the next three nights, with the final two airing as a double-bill on 20 June. True Love was originally titled Love Life but was re-titled to avoid confusion with an ITV series with the same title. Plot While each episode is self-contained, the series is set in the English seaside town of Margate, Kent. There is some overlap between episodes. Episode one centres on Nick (David Tennant), whose happy marriage is turned upside-down by the reappearance of his first love. Episode two centres on Paul (Ashley Walters), who is married to Michelle (Lacey Turner), a new father who experiences "love at first sight". Episode three centres on Holly (Billie Piper), a teacher who lives alone and is in an unhappy affair with a married man. Holly develops feelings for a student in her class (Kaya Scodelario). Episode four centres on Sandra (Jane Horrocks), a middle-aged woman in a stale marriage to an unfaithful husband. Jane Horrocks plays a shop keeper who is trapped in a loveless relationship and embarks on a passionate affair with a mysterious man. Episode five centres on Adrian (David Morrissey), a divorcé who lives in a flat in a tower block with his 16-year-old daughter. He begins a relationship with a woman he meets through the Internet. At the same time, his daughter's best friend (Jo Woodcock) develops an unrequited obsessive love for him. Filming True Love was filmed entirely in Margate and surrounding areas between early September and mid-October 2011. Billie Piper's episode was partially shot at The Charles Dickens School in Broadstairs, where some of the current students were invited to be extras, filming scenes alongside Piper. Other prominent locations include Botany Bay, Turner Contemporary, Westwood Cross shopping centre, and Margate railway station.