James Nesbitt

Cold Feet 7: Interviews

“I’D always resisted bringing Cold Feet back.

“I didn’t want to revisit something and go along that well-trodden path where things are resurrected and then don’t have the strength, innovation or the voice they had originally.

“But when I read the scripts I thought they were very good. We slotted back into it really well but there was no complacency.

“We did feel under pressure and so it was lovely that people took to it.”

James Nesbitt talking to me about last year’s return of Cold Feet.

Ahead of series seven which begins on ITV this Friday (Sept 8) at 9pm.

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Cold Feet: Interviews

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“I aspire to make people laugh out loud and a tear to form in their eye.

“I feel we’ve achieved that.”

Cold Feet creator and writer Mike Bullen talking to me earlier this year about the return of the much loved ITV series.

Finally arriving back on screen at 9pm on Monday (Sept 5).

I can still recall the buzz in the room after the screening of the first episode of series one at the London launch of Cold Feet in 1998, some 18 months after the pilot was broadcast.

Interviewing the cast then it was clear they and Mike had created something very special indeed. A fresh, original, surprising series with – as in life – moments of comedy and drama entwined.

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Monroe 2: Press Launch

“YOU know what? I just love the miracle days.”

It begins tonight with both an expanded regular cast and hospital world.

If you liked Monroe the first time around, then you’re going to love series two.

Creator and writer Peter Bowker is always a guarantee of top quality drama.

And Monroe is one of the very best things you will see on British television.

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Monroe: James Nesbitt

James Nesbitt as Gabriel Monroe

THERE’S a plate full of biscuits on the table.

James Nesbitt reaches for one as he describes what he saw while attending four brain operations.

Just another day in the world of television.

I met up with James in London before Christmas for a small round table interview ahead of his flight to New Zealand to star in The Hobbit.

He’d finished filming new ITV1 drama Monroe just a few days before.

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