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12-01-2011, 01:18
COLD Feet star Helen Baxendale has been asked to sign up for a new series of the hit drama - even though her character is DEAD.
Producers are desperate to reunite the cast of the hugely successful ITV series, and are trying to find a way to write Helen's character Rachel back in.
Rachel's shock death in a lorry smash was watched by 9.4 million distraught fans in 2003.
But despite a final episode that showed her ashes being scattered, she revealed TV executives are desperate for her to be a part of a new series.
Actress Helen, 40, told TV Biz she would "of course, say yes" to the reunion.
She said: "They've been so lovely and said, 'Look, we really would want you in it' - but I don't know how they would do that.
"They did come to me and ask and say, 'How can we get her back in?'"
And referring to the ludicrous dream sequence used to bring Bobby Ewing back from the dead in US drama Dallas, Helen said: "It would be a bit Dallas-y, wouldn't it?"
Sources say producers are considering a prequel, flashbacks or dream sequences to get the whole Cold Feet cast reunited for a special. Rachel could even appear as a GHOST.
Original Granada producer Andy Harries first hinted at a return for Cold Feet's 30-something pals at this year's Edinburgh television festival.
The chief executive of independent producer Left Bank Pictures said conversations were "ongoing" about the show's possible return, seven years after it last aired on ITV1. He added: "It would be wonderful."
Helen - who stars in Thursday's Kidnap and Ransom on ITV1 - added: "It was such a lovely thing to do and it was so much part of our youth, of course you'd say 'Yes'.
"But you'd have to look at the whole thing on its merits in every way, wouldn't you?"
John Thomson, 41, who played Cold Feet's hapless Pete Gifford, has said of the reunion: "It cannot be a one-off and it has to be written by Mike Bullen, the original writer.
"And it can't be retrospective, because we'll all have to have Botox."
Of Rachel's possible return he said: "I've got my own idea how to deal with that. But it wouldn't involve a ghost."
John has overcome a drink problem since Cold Feet ended, and when asked where he saw his character Pete, he said: "I'm half the size I used to be, so probably down the gym with a beautiful model for a wife and splitting his weekends between Didsbury and Monte Carlo."
Cold Feet ran for five series from 1998 to 2003, following the lives of three couples.
Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale) met, moved in together and had a son before her premature death.
Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) married and had a baby before splitting amid adultery claims.
Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) struggled through her alcoholism and his infidelity
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Producers are desperate to reunite the cast of the hugely successful ITV series, and are trying to find a way to write Helen's character Rachel back in.
Rachel's shock death in a lorry smash was watched by 9.4 million distraught fans in 2003.
But despite a final episode that showed her ashes being scattered, she revealed TV executives are desperate for her to be a part of a new series.
Actress Helen, 40, told TV Biz she would "of course, say yes" to the reunion.
She said: "They've been so lovely and said, 'Look, we really would want you in it' - but I don't know how they would do that.
"They did come to me and ask and say, 'How can we get her back in?'"
And referring to the ludicrous dream sequence used to bring Bobby Ewing back from the dead in US drama Dallas, Helen said: "It would be a bit Dallas-y, wouldn't it?"
Sources say producers are considering a prequel, flashbacks or dream sequences to get the whole Cold Feet cast reunited for a special. Rachel could even appear as a GHOST.
Original Granada producer Andy Harries first hinted at a return for Cold Feet's 30-something pals at this year's Edinburgh television festival.
The chief executive of independent producer Left Bank Pictures said conversations were "ongoing" about the show's possible return, seven years after it last aired on ITV1. He added: "It would be wonderful."
Helen - who stars in Thursday's Kidnap and Ransom on ITV1 - added: "It was such a lovely thing to do and it was so much part of our youth, of course you'd say 'Yes'.
"But you'd have to look at the whole thing on its merits in every way, wouldn't you?"
John Thomson, 41, who played Cold Feet's hapless Pete Gifford, has said of the reunion: "It cannot be a one-off and it has to be written by Mike Bullen, the original writer.
"And it can't be retrospective, because we'll all have to have Botox."
Of Rachel's possible return he said: "I've got my own idea how to deal with that. But it wouldn't involve a ghost."
John has overcome a drink problem since Cold Feet ended, and when asked where he saw his character Pete, he said: "I'm half the size I used to be, so probably down the gym with a beautiful model for a wife and splitting his weekends between Didsbury and Monte Carlo."
Cold Feet ran for five series from 1998 to 2003, following the lives of three couples.
Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale) met, moved in together and had a son before her premature death.
Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) married and had a baby before splitting amid adultery claims.
Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst) struggled through her alcoholism and his infidelity
(c) The Sun