What to watch
Cold Feet
ITV, 9.00PM
The successful reboot of the much-loved Nineties series returns for a third outing, offering its trademark warmth and wit while sticking firmly to the comedy-drama format that made it such a hit in the first place. With welcome ease, we slip back into the lives of the five friends, as they negotiate the vagaries of middle age – though, admittedly, with varying degrees of success. Adam (James Nesbitt) is still bent on rolling back the years, dying his greying hair and flirting with a young barista (Tala Gouveia) at his local coffee shop. Meanwhile, romance is flourishing in Jenny (Fay Ripley) and Pete’s (John Thomson) marriage, until some unexpected medical news threatens to skewer their passion. And finally, Karen (Hermione Norris) and ex-husband David (Robert Bathurst) can’t seem to agree over the future of son Josh (Callum Woodhouse), who wants to drop out of his university course.
As ever, Mike Bullen’s script deftly see-saws between the light-hearted and the serious, bolstered by an expert cast whose chemistry is the show’s chief pleasure. While there’s a slight sense of diminishing returns for these characters’ storylines, it’s still a joy to spend time in their company. Toby Dantzic