Footballers' Wives

Just can't sleep at Knights Gillian's ex is penniless and dossing ...

source: of the World

 UK Before her two years as Nikki Wright in ITV's police soap Gillian enjoyed five years as Jackie Pascoe-Webb in Footballers' Wives. But she is best known as Kathy Beale in Albert Square where she spent 15 years. Our source said: "Gillian's been lucky in ...

Published Sat, Jun 13

Fiction Writing Course Appoints Lecturer

source: Allmediascotland

in collaboration with Shed, the production company behind some of television's most popular dramas, including Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls. ... and more »

Published Thu, Jun 11

The Weekend's Television: Hope Springs, Sun, BBC1

source: Independent

 UK Ann McManus, Maureen Chadwick and Liz Lake's drama comes from Shed Productions, the company that produced Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives. So, obviously, this account of four female ex-cons, accidentally diverted from a prosperous retirement in ...

Published Sun, Jun 7

The weekend's TV: Blind Sight - Everest the Hard Way

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

 UK It's hard to imagine how they are going to fill seven more episodes of this. I wasn't expecting The Wire, given that Hope Springs is made by the people who are also responsible for Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls. But this one doesn't have the ...

Published Sun, Jun 7

Teaching role for TV's top drama queen

source: The Herald

 UK It's the first full-time university course of its type in the country and is being run in collaboration with Shed, the production company behind some of television's most popular dramas including Footballers' Wives, Waterloo Road and Bad Girls. ...

Published Fri, Jun 5

Queerview television guide for June 3

source: AfterElton.com

Bad Girls' general reputation for camp and creators Ann McManus and Maureen Chadwick's later history (they've gone on to include gay male characters in Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road) there's definitely reason for gay men to take interest in ...

Published Wed, Jun 3

From Bill McGarry to Neil Ruddock

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

 UK SN Footballers' Wives did a decent enough job of bringing us a world of scripted excess and fictionalised flights of tackiness. They needn't have bothered. The real thing is widely available. Phil Neville's house, for example, which announces itself ...

Published Tue, May 19

My life was ruined by horror injury but now I have new hope, says ...

source: Glasgow Sunday Mail

 UK She just loves to talk and can't help herself even as the director calls action and the cameras start to roll on the set of the show - made by Shed Productions, behind Waterloo Road, Bad Girls and Footballers Wives. It is BBC1's summer Sunday night ...

Published Sun, May 17