Robert Bathurst

Return of Cold Feet is bleaker than just nostalgia

Returning after 13 years, the feelgood drama of the late 90s seems a far gloomier proposition in Brexit Britain.

The Cold Feet cast on their highly-anticipated reunion

The cast on returning to the hit series - and confronting their own middle-aged years.

Cold Feet is back, hurrah! We catch up with the cast

Heartbroken and hungry for more, we left the six thirty-somethings in 2003. Thirteen years later Adam returns to Manchester with some life-changing news. Yes, ITV's iconic comedy-drama Cold Feet is finally back. We drop in on the cast, it's like they've never been away.

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The first look at the reunion of the 90s' favourite middle-class Manchester couples is a sartorial lesson in anthropology.

Cold Feet stars celebrate finishing filming

James Nesbitt, Fay Ripley, John Thomson and Robert Bathurst enjoyed a low key wrap party at Artisan in Spinningfields, Manchester, to celebrate finishing filming the new series of Cold Feet.

Cold Feet: first look at filming on location

Cold Feet favourites James Nesbitt, John Thomson and Robert Bathurst spotted on the first day on location in Manchester city centre.

Cold Feet reunion - will the 90s hit work in 2015?

Robert Bathurst, Fay Ripley, John Thomson, Hermione Norris and James Nesbitt have been seen together on the set of ITV's revival - but will the show survive without Helen Baxendale?

Not to everyone's taste, but Mrs Brown's Boys is widely watched over the festive season. There's precious little concession to the holidays in this New Year special - more, as ever, a procession of near-the-knuckle jokes, delivered while the cast try their hardest (not always successfully) to avoid laughing. Tonight, Robert Bathurst guests as a surprise visitor to Foley's Bar. He has designs not on Kathy (who has "been on so many blind dates she needs a guide dog") but on Agnes Brown herself.

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Kathy bemoans being "one more bad relationship away from owning 50 cats", but when a stranger makes eyes at her and the ladies in the pub, to everyone's shock, he's ogling Agnes. Mammy still has her "needs" and says, "Even a ripe banana likes to be squeezed." But is her admirer William (Robert Bathurst, who played Edith's drippy suitor in Downton) just a shade too ardent?

A lot more fun than the Christmas edition, this has laugh-out-loud lines, a smutty spin on the words "yoyo" and "scuttle" and great physical comedy from Brendan O'Carroll, as Agnes seeks advice on amorous matters from her GP and the vicar.