Mike Bullen

  • Executive producer and writer

Press clippings

'I'm still friends with the person who applied my pubic wig': how we made Cold Feet

"A lot of it was autobiographical. When Adam won Rachel back by serenading her with a red rose up his bottom, that was based on me - with a bit of artistic licence."

Michael Hogan, The Guardian, 13th November 2023

ITV announces Cold Feet hiatus

ITV has confirmed that there will be a tenth series of Cold Feet - but possibly not for a number of years, as the comedy drama goes on hiatus.

British Comedy Guide, 18th February 2020

Cold Feet, episode 6 review

This charismatic gang still feel like old friends - but it's a wise decision to bow out now.

Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 17th February 2020

Cold Feet, series 9 episode 2, review

Emotional honesty, plus a blast from the past for Adam.

Anita Singh, The Telegraph, 20th January 2020

Mike Bullen says Cold Feet is taking break amid pay row

Fay Ripley says wages still vary between her and co-stars Hermione Norris, James Nesbitt, Robert Bathurst and John Thomson.

Kim Carr, The Mirror, 12th January 2020

Cold Feet Series 9 confirmed

ITV has confirmed that its long-running hit comedy drama Cold Feet will return in 2020 for a ninth series.

British Comedy Guide, 20th June 2019

At Karen's behest, Adam tries his hand at dramatherapy but finds it hard to see the point. It is difficult not to feel the same about an episode of Mike Bullen's romantic comedy-drama that seems to focus too much on Adam at the expense of equally interesting fellow characters, who this week cultivate some promising plotlines.

Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 21st January 2019

I am surprisingly glad to see Cold Feet back. Mike Bullen's writing can still startle and, on occasion, delight. True, there are tribes on alien planets, never exposed to this "telly" thing, who could have, within 10 minutes, and possessed of a decent broadband width, identified the likelihood that the way-too-young barista fancied by James Nesbitt was, rather than aching to be hit on by a 50-year-old with dyed hair transplants, actually going out with his son. Cue the biggest non-shock since Theresa May wasn't voted Dancing Icon of the Year by EU! magazine. But did anyone see coming that first smidgen of a hint of something more... between Adam and Karen? Honestly? Really?

Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 20th January 2019

Cold Feet review

As ever, Mike Bullen's writing offers an astute understanding of the everyday travails of middle age.

Sarah Hughes, i Newspaper, 15th January 2019

Writer Mike Bullen's Manchester midlife comedy returns with a lively opener that sees both wedding and alarm bells ringing. David and Karen confront parenting problems, Pete turns lifesaver and, best of all, failing lothario Adam gets a lesson in how to embrace his age and why it's OK to go on Tinder.

Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 14th January 2019

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