"Cold Feet" ran for five years from 1998 to 2003, and Nesbitt won the British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor in 2000, the Television and Radio Industries Club Award for Drama TV Performer of the Year in 2002, the National Television Award for Most Popular Comedy Performance in 2003, and the TV Quick Award for Best Actor in 2003. Nesbitt credits the role with raising his profile with the public. Further television roles during these five years included women's football team coach John Dolan in the first two series of Kay Mellor's "Playing the Field" (appearing alongside his "Cold Feet" co-star John Thomson), investigative journalists Ryan and David Laney in "Resurrection Man" (Marc Evans, 1998) and "Touching Evil II" respectively, and womaniser Stanley in "Women Talking Dirty" (Coky Giedroyc, 1999).