FOOTBALLERS’ WIVES IMPORTED TO AMERICA
The US ABC network is bringing British hit FOOTBALLERS’ WIVES to America.
The US version will take place in the world of professional US football, rather than soccer, but will retain much of the over-the-top spirit of the original.
Touchstone Television producer CHRIS BRANCATO says, "What we’ve been working on is taking the characters and giving them an American spin." He says many of the original storylines will be used in the US version and that the format will be adapted as an hour long primetime soap.
Footballers’ Wives launched on ITV in 2002, and focuses on three ordinary women whose lives are transformed by the celebrity and fortune that comes with marriage to soccer superstars.
Executive producer EILEEN GALLAGHER says the key to the success of the show was that it wasn’t really about sports.
She adds, "It’s as much about football as DALLAS was about oil. It’s about ultimate celebrity, about too much, too young… and women who are stuck with each other."
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