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Footballers' Wives

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2002-2006
5 Seasons
Drama, Sports
TV-14

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Drama series about the women married to members of Earls Park football team. Ian (Nathan Constance) gets offered a place on the first team, while his wife Donna (Katherine Monaghan) tries to track down the son they gave up for adoption nine years ago. Glamour model Chardonnay Lane (Susie Amy) and resident heartthrob Kyle (Gary Lucy) are looking forward to their wedding. Earls Park announces a new signing who is a threat to the team's current Captain Jason (Christian Solimeno) and his scheming wife Tanya (Zöe Lucker).

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Cast & Crew See All

Gillian Taylforth

Jackie Pascoe

Zoe Lucker

Tanya Turner

Paul Clarke

Season 5 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Episode #5.1

Bruno and Lucy prepare to renew their vowels until Jolie arrives and drops a bombshell. Tremaine Gidigbi is released from prison and joins Earls Park. Shannon settles into single life. Amber begins to exact her revenge on Bruno.

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Awards

2004 - National Television Award - Most Popular Actress - nominated
2004 - National Television Award - Most Popular Drama - nominated
2005 - TV Quick Award - Best Loved Drama - winner
2005 - TV Quick Award - Best Actress - nominated

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Latest News See All

CBS' The Closer? ABC's MI-5? Strike Talk Has Nets Scrambling

As the threat of a Writers Guild strike continues to loom, network suits are considering perhaps using finished and already aired-elsewhere episodes of international hits and/or cable series to fill schedule gaps should the stop-action happen. According to Variety, non-U.S. programming such as the U.K.'s Footballers Wives and MI-5, CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie and CTV's Corner Gas could make their way to the Big 3  and Warner Bros. is said to be shopping around The Closer  though execs maintain such acquisitions would be a last resort. "Right now," says NBC entertainment cochair Ben Silverman, "we're just hoping there's not a strike." Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Non-American Broadcasting Cooperative says, "Hey, whatever you do, don't send Black Donnellys our way."

Thu, Aug 30, 2007

CBS' The Closer? ABC's MI-5? Strike Talk Has Nets Scrambling

ABC May Still Make a Play for Football Wives

ABC Studios has extended its options on the actors associated with Football Wives, the BBC-adapted sudser pilot that was not picked up at the May upfronts, suggesting the network may tackle the project after all. One of the Alphabet's highest-profile pilots this development season, Football Wives stars Gabrielle Union, Lucy Lawless, Kiele Sanchez (sigh, Nikki...), Ving Rhames and James Van Der Beek. Should ABC ultimately "pass," sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that several other networks, including NBC and Fox, have expressed an interest in it.

Thu, Jun 28, 2007

Tarty Tanya Teases Footballers' Wives' Final Season

You'd have to go all the way back to Dynasty's Alexis Colby to find a saucier British TV import than Tanya Turner of BBC America's Footballers' Wives. To mark the fifth and final season premiere of the campy soccer-and-sex sudser (airing tonight at 8 pm/ET), we rang up Tanya's alter ego, Zoe Lucker, to talk about wild women, wacky ensembles and working with the original queen of mean. TV Guide: Obviously, Tanya is a man-eater. But she's also a romantic. Zoe Lucker: I felt very strongly about that. If you play the straight bitch, then you're not going to have people on your side. I always maintained that the reason Tanya behaves the way she does is because of the way she's been treated. She basically wants to be loved by the right person. TV Guide: And has she! How many husbands so

Wed, Jun 6, 2007

Tarty Tanya Teases Footballers' Wives' Final Season

Do you know why Footballers' ...

Question: Do you know why Footballers' Wives wasn't picked up? It was on the schedule, and now didn't make the cut.Answer: That's a good question. I saw the pilot and thought it was pretty good, in a Melrose Place, check-your-brain-at-the-door-and-just-have-fun kind of way.

Wed, May 16, 2007

ABC Is Ready to Tackle Footballers' Wives

Per Variety, ABC has greenlit a pilot for a U.S. adaptation of the U.K. hit Footballers' Wives, and even has X-Men's Bryan Singer  whose last TV pilot was House  loosely attached to direct. In its American incarnation, Wives will be set in the world of pro football rather than that "other" football, soccer, yet promises to retain its over-the-top frothiness. Also in the U.S. version: more-conspicuous dental hygiene.

Tue, Dec 19, 2006

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