“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.

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.