**What is Mr Loverman about?**

Over eight half-hour episodes, Mr Loverman will tell the story of 70-year-old Barry. Born in Antigua before moving to London, he is an “exuberant Hackney personality” who is renowned for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits, according to the BBC synopsis.

“Carmel, his wife of 50 years, senses that Barry has been cheating on her with other women,” the synopsis continues. “Little does she know what’s really going on: a secret, decades-long passionate affair with his best friend and soulmate, Morris.

“Now entering the next chapter of his life, Barry has big choices to make that will force his whole family to question their own futures.”

Exploring Britain’s older Caribbean community, the series is set to “paint an incisive portrait of a family, exploring aspirations and regret, parenthood and social expectations about sexual orientation and love”.

Mr Loverman: we have the first-look images of the BBC adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo’s novel