Footballers' Wives: Extra Time

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Footballers' Wives: Extra Time

Genre	Drama
Creator(s)	Maureen Chadwick, Ann McManus
Starring	Courtney Akers, Nicholas Ball, Marc Bannerman, Sarah Barrand, Frances Da Costa, Jamie Davis, Elaine Glover, Marc Hendrey, Helen Latham, Sarah Matravers, Georgina Mellor, Travis Oliver, Louise Plowright, Ben Richards, Laila Rouass, Tom Swire
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	25
Production
Producer(s)	Shed Productions
Running time	20 to 30 minutes (no breaks)
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV2
Original run	May 26, 2005 – May 18, 2006
Chronology
Related shows	Footballers' Wives
Links
IMDb profile

Footballers' Wives: Extra Time (sometimes known as Footballers' Wive$: Extra Time) is a British television programme, which is a spinoff of Footballers' Wives. It aired on ITV2 for two series but has now been cancelled. In the US on BBC America, Footballers' Wives: Extra Time is called Footballers' Wives: Overtime.

1 The Original
2 Background
3 Episodes
4 Cast
- 4.1 Connected characters
5 DVD releases
6 Foreign Audience
7 External links

[edit] The Original

Main article: Footballers' Wives

Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the private lives of a group of professional footballers and their wives. It is immensely popular because of its soap opera format. The show centers around the fictional Earls Park Football Club. It began on ITV in 2002 and is currently on its fifth series.

[edit] Background

Footballers' Wives: Extra Time is the racy drama spin-off to award winning original series, Footballers' Wives. Picking up from the end of Footballers' Wives Series 4. It aired on ITV2.

[edit] Episodes

With success of the first series ITV2 increased the episode lengths by 10 minutes and ordered 1 more than the first series.

Series	Number of episodes	Length of episodes (no breaks)	Length of episodes (with breaks
1	12	20 minutes	30 minutes
2	13	30 minutes	45 minutes

The original episode line-up consisted of 18 episodes at 20-25 episodes each. However, there is no explanation as to why the 18 episodes were put into 13 extended episodes for airing.

[edit] Cast

Georgina Mellor as Anika Beevor
Travis Oliver as Oliver Ryan
Frances DaCosta as Yasmin Salter
Marc Hendrey as Rees Salter
Sarah Matravers as Joly Salter
Tom Swire as Seb Webb
Dominique Moore as Channel O'Grady
Jack Pierce as Cash Brown
Ben Richards as Bruno Milligan
Helen Latham as Lucy Milligan
Nicholas Ball as Gary Ryan
Peter Ash as Darius Fry
Julie Legrand as Janette Dunkley
Alice Bird as Lizzy
Ross Finbow as Woody

[edit] Connected characters

character	relation
Anika Beevor	Tanya Turner's half-sister
Oliver Ryan	Gary Ryan's son
Yasmin Salter	Bruno Milligan's Daughter
Rees Salter	Bruno Milligan's Son
Joly Salter	Bruno Milligan's ex-wife
Seb Webb	Roger Webb's son

[edit] DVD releases

DVD releases in the UK

Cover	Series	Release Date in UK	# of Discs	# of Episodes
	The Complete First Series	July 3, 2006	2	12

Both series of Extra Time have been released in Australia. However, the Series 2 release in Australia has the original episode-plan of 18 episodes.

[edit] Foreign Audience

In the United States, BBC America has aired the first season, although it is known in the US as Footballers Wive$: Overtime. In Israel the 2 seasons aired on channel Yes+.