to 2003. It was created by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his 1997 one-
off comedy of the same name. The series, set and largely filmed in
Greater Manchester, follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs
of romance. Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt, pictured,
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) experience parenthood, adultery, separation and divorce. Karen
and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) live an upper-
middle-class lifestyle, but their marriage disintegrates after each has
an affair. The show was a critical and ratings success. Critics analysed
the depiction of social issues, the use of popular music, and the
relevance of the series to contemporary audiences compared to big-budget
BBC costume dramas. The series was a regular nominee at the British
Comedy Awards, the National Television Awards and elsewhere. It has been
broadcast in over 30 countries and has been remade for local audiences
in the United States and European countries.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Feet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
193:
Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman Emperor Pertinax and sold
the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax>
1802:
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered
2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas>
1933:
A passenger aboard the Imperial Airways biplane City of
Liverpool set a fire on board, causing it to break apart in mid-air and
crash.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Imperial_Airways_Dixmude_crash>
1999:
Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo
Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central
Kosovo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izbica_massacre>
2003:
Invasion of Iraq: In a friendly fire incident, two members of
the United States Air Force attacked the United Kingdom's Blues and
Royals of the Household Cavalry, killing one and injuring five British
soldiers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/190th_Fighter_Squadron,_Blues_and_Royals_friendly_fire_incident>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lacrimae rerum:
The "tears of things"; the inherent tragedy of existence.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lacrimae_rerum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We become obsessed with "truth" when discussing statements, just
as we become obsessed with "freedom" when discussing conduct … Like
freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
--J. L. Austin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._L._Austin>
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