Bradford actress Sarah Jane Potts stars in a new television comedy drama being hailed as the next Cold Feet.

Reunited, written by Mike Bullen, who wrote Cold Feet and Life Begins, is a one-off pilot about six former friends who shared a house together in London in their early twenties and are reunited eight years later. Their house-share ended in acrimony and recrimination, and their reunion brings old tensions to the surface.

Martin and Hannah were a couple who seemed destined to end up together until Hannah, in a moment of madness, slept with Martin’s best friend, Rob. The other housemates, Belinda, Danny and Sarah, watched in dismay as acrimony and recrimination tore the close-knit group apart.

Eight years on, following another failed relationship, Hannah discovers that her old flame, Martin, is engaged to be married. The friends gather again in London, some enthusiastic and some reluctant, and realise that the distant past may not be as distant as they had imagined.

Sarah Jane joins an ensemble cast of young actors that includes comedian Ed Byrne.

Mark Freeland, Head of Comedy, BBC says: “I am delighted that Mike Bullen has returned to British comedy drama, working with us, in-house, to make his first show for the BBC in ten years.

‘‘Reunited is packed with Mike’s brilliant trademarks – warmth, humour, sadness, misunderstanding, love – the considerable ups and downs of ordinary lives.”

Sarah Jane and her brother, Andrew Lee Potts, are familiar faces on television. Sarah Jane stars in BBC1 school drama Waterloo Road as Jo Lipsett, head of modern languages, and has also appeared in TV dramas such as Casualty, Sugar Rush and Bodies.

Andrew stars in ITV’s Primeval and was in Kay Mellor’s drama A Passionate Woman earlier this year. The siblings went to Bradford’s Scala Kids stage school and, as youngsters, starred in TV’s Children’s Ward and Emmerdale.

  • Reunited is on BBC1 on Wednesday at 9pm.