Cold Feet

This 90s throwback is ageing gracefully, with midlife crises, perfect kitchens and teenage pregnancies thrown into the mix. Adam (James Nesbitt) is off on a team-building exercise and his eyebrows have been flirting with a cheeky colleague for weeks. What will happen when he spends the night away from Tina? Elsewhere, Karen (Hermione Norris) is buckling under the pressure of her complicated work and home life, despite hapless ex David's offer of help.

Cold Feet series 7 episode 4 review

Revenge porn? On middle-class, middle-aged comedy drama Cold Feet? How's that going to work? The answer is that it didn't.

Last week's closing revelation saw the carousel of bittersweet middle-age inconveniences stop at teen pregnancy. The gathering of the kids too young to have a child, and the parents who aren't ready to be grandparents, prompts the predictable shouting, speeches, learning and staring into space backed by piano ballads, but it's compassionately handled. Meanwhile, there's a fresh burden for the perpetually overwhelmed Pete and Jenny (John Thomson and Fay Ripley).

Interview: Robert Bathurst

No, I don't associate myself with the character at all," says Robert Bathurst, sounding exactly like David Marsden, his character from Cold Feet...

More midlife-crisis drama from a show that once felt like an event, but now bumbles along in inoffensive and unremarkable style. It still boasts a cast of middlebrow troupers (including James Nesbitt, Hermione Norris and Fay Ripley) with decent chemistry, but feels oddly flat. The emotional heart of this new run looks to be Adam and Tina's agonising over starting a family; whether that will be enough to sustain viewer engagement remains to be seen.

The return of Cold Feet for a seventh series felt, dispiritingly... welcome enough but a bit of a chore, like the bath you can't be bothered to get out of. Adam is still with Tina and there was some interminable stuff about moving in together that got way too specific about Manchester's commuter routes. The good news is that Robert Bathurst's David, often the richest untapped vein, is set fair for adventure amid the desperately rich housewives of the Cheshire set.

Cold Feet review

The drama is still exceptionally good and highly watchable. With such great performances, follicles excepted, how could it go wrong? Friday used to be a graveyard for drama series. Not this one. It will run and run.

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It's always incredibly risky to revive a much-loved show. Few manage to recreate the magic, let alone match the success. Porridge, Red Dwarf and Still Open All Hours have all been dusted off and brought back to our screens, and are still chugging away, but with a fraction of the viewers and former acclaim. Cold Feet (ITV) is the exception.