"[1] An ITV committee selected Cold Feet to represent the network in the comedy-drama category at the Montreux Television Festival.
"[4] In The Independent, Tina Ogle noted that Neil Morrissey was playing a "typical fluffy bunny", but singled out Jim Carter as the best actor.
[5] Thomas Sutcliffe for the same newspaper was more critical of Morrissey, writing that he was putting on "his 10-year-old boy act", and concluded by saying The Chest "makes you want to run someone through with a cutlass.
Mark Lawson called it "a rare example of a period sitcom" and compared Darren Grimley to Adrian Mole.
[8] John Millar for the Daily Record anticipated a full series would follow the pilot[9] and Eddie Gibb for The Scotsman named it the best sitcom of the year.