James Nesbitt has admitted that he is considering looking for work in American due to the terrible state of British TV.

The Occupation actor told the Radio Times that he has been offered gigs in Hollywood before but passed up the opportunity.

Nesbitt said: “I could have gone there years ago, but the notion of waiting six months to play a baddie in a bad film just wasn’t my idea of career utopia. I was challenged here, I enjoyed doing what I was doing.

“But the British TV industry is in a desperate state – not creatively, but financially. So I’ve gone with an American agent and well, we’ll see what happens. There’s so little work happening here, it’s not a door that I’d slam shut.”