Airdate: Mayflies

Two part UK drama Mayflies st arring Martin Compston, Tony Curran,premieres this week at SBS.

It also features Ashley Jensen, Tracy Ifeachor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Rian Gordon, Paul Gorman, Mitchell Robertson, Elaine C Smith, Shauna Macdonald, Cal MacAninch, Colin McCredie and newcomer Matt Littleson.

30 years on since they first met and bonded over music, films and the rebel spirit in the small Scottish town of their birth, successful writer Jimmy Collins receives devastating news and a request from best friend Tully Dawson. Tully wants to end his life by assisted suicide in Switzerland, and he wants Jimmy to help him. As Jimmy wrestles with the moral dilemma of Tully’s request, the two men reflect on their friendship and the course of their lives, reminiscing about a magical teenage weekend in Manchester where they made a vow – to go at life differently.

Episode One:
Tully and Jimmy’s 30-year friendship is tested when Tully asks Jimmy to help him take control of a terminal cancer diagnosis, by taking him to Switzerland to die on his own terms.

Wednesday, 15 March at 9.30pm on SBS.