The week in TV: Truelove; Mr Bates vs the Post Office; The Traitors; The Tourist – review

‘The screen is lit up with grey power’: Lindsay Duncan and Clarke Peters in Truelove. Channel 4/ BBC Studios/ Clerkenwell Photograph: James Pardon/CHANNEL 4/BBC Studios/Clerkenwell

Truelove (Channel 4) | channel4.com
Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV1) | itv.com
The Traitors (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Tourist (BBC One) | iPlayer

Assisted dying has been hitting the headlines recently: parliamentary rumblings; Esther Rantzen, who has stage 4 lung cancer, telling Radio 4’s Today programme she might “buzz off to Switzerland”; Rachael Stirling’s moving account of her late mother, Diana Rigg, making impassioned recordings advocating “true agency at the end of life”. Now Charlie Covell and Iain Weatherby’s six-part Channel 4 drama Truelove focuses on assisted dying too, though not quite in the way you’d expect.