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''Cold Feet'' is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance. Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale) are a new couple who go through dating, marriage and the birth of a child. Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) are a married couple with a newborn son; they experience parenthood, adultery, separation and eventually divorce when Jenny leaves for a job in New York. Pete starts a new relationship with Jo Ellison (Kimberley Joseph). Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) live an upper-middle-class lifestyle, employing a nanny for their son and holding dinner parties with friends. Their marriage disintegrates after each has an affair. The original series was executive-produced by Bullen with Granada's head of comedy Andy Harries, and produced by Christine Langan, Spencer Campbell and Emma Benson. 32 episodes were broadcast over the original five series from 15 November 1998 to 16 March 2003. A reboot of the original series with some of the original cast is planned for 2016. 〔Sherwin, Adam (19 November 2015). "(Cold Feet: Hit drama series following group of thirtysomethings to return to ITV after 12 years )". The Independent. Retrieved 20 November 2015.〕 The series is set in Greater Manchester and was primarily filmed there for all five years. Filming occasionally went overseas to locations such as Belfast, Paris and Sydney. To distinguish the look of the series from regular sitcoms, all episodes were shot on film stock and were overseen by directors with little television experience, creating a visual style more akin to advertisements; Jon Jones was nominated for a British Academy Television Craft Award for his work on the third series. The show was a critical and ratings success for ITV, which has struggled to recapture ''Cold Feet''s kind of audience since the series ended. Critics analysed the depiction of social issues, the use of popular music, and the relevance of the series to contemporary audiences when compared to the big-budget BBC costume dramas ''Vanity Fair'' (1998) and ''The Way We Live Now'' (2001). Mike Bullen's style of writing has served as inspiration to British screenwriters Danny Brocklehurst and Sanjeev Kohli. The series was a regular nominee at the British Comedy Awards—at which it won four out of five "Best TV Comedy Drama" nominations—the National Television Awards, and television societies worldwide. It has been broadcast in over 34 countries and has been remade for local audiences in the United States and European countries. The series also spawned merchandise, including soundtracks, DVDs and spin-off books. == Background == (詳細はMike Bullen's working relationship with Granada Television began in 1994 when his agent sold his first screenplay, a one-off comedy-drama called ''The Perfect Match'', to the company's head of comedy Andy Harries. Harries had been looking for television scripts that would reflect the lives of people from his generation—people in their 30s who were under-represented on television.〔 ''The Perfect Match'', about a man who proposes to his girlfriend at the FA Cup Final and has to deal with constant media attention afterwards, was made and then broadcast in 1995. Harries asked Bullen to pitch more ideas for television to ''The Perfect Match''s assistant producer Christine Langan.〔Tibballs, pp. 9–10.〕 As a fan of American television such as ''Thirtysomething'', ''Frasier'' and ''Hill Street Blues'', Bullen pitched ''Cold Feet'', a traditional "boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-wins-girl-back" story told from both sides of the relationship but using elements of fantasy and flashback to distort events to fit a character's point of view.〔Smith, p. 6.〕〔Tibballs, p. 7.〕 The initial pitch centred on Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale), which Harries believed would diminish the storytelling potential if the ITV Network Centre commissioned a full series after the pilot, so Bullen "tacked on" plots for two other couples—Adam and Rachel's respective friends Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) and David and Karen Marsden (Robert Bathurst and Hermione Norris).〔Tibballs, p. 18.〕 The pilot was directed by ''Father Ted''s Declan Lowney over 12 days in 1996 on location around Greater Manchester.〔〔Tibballs, p. 14.〕 The programme was one of four one-off Comedy Premieres made by Granada for ITV. ''Cold Feet'' was eventually broadcast on 30 March 1997. It received only 3.5 million viewers and little critical attention. As ITV's comedy portfolio was so thin, ''Cold Feet'' was submitted as the network's comedy entry at the Montreux Television Festival in May 1997. There it won the Silver Rose for Humour and the Rose d'Or, the highest accolade of the festival. ITV scheduled a repeat broadcast a few days afterwards but did not commission a series. Not until David Liddiment's appointment as director of programming at ITV in August 1997 was a six episode series ordered.〔Strenske, Bettina (September 1997). "(Golden Rose of Montreux for Mike Bullen )". London Screenwriters' Workshop. Retrieved 17 July 2008. Archived from (the original ) on 13 February 1998.〕〔Smith, Christine (15 August 1997). "Cold Feet heads up triple commission for Granada". ''Broadcast'' (Emap Business): p. 2.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cold Feet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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