Lydia Marchant cowrites Channel 5 ‘Play for Today’

Lydia Marchant has co-written Never Too Late, a romantic comedy set in a retirement village, with Simon Warne. It stars Anita Dobson, Nigel Havers, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Nina Wadia and will air in late 2025 / early 2026. The one hour comedy drama has been commissioned by Vertigo Films as part of Channel 5’s Play for Today which aims to give opportunities to emerging TV writers