Footballers' Wives: Extra Time

Footballers' Wives: Extra Time (stylised as footballers wive$: extra time) is a British drama programme. A spin-off of Footballers' Wives, the programme aired on ITV2 for two series. Footballers' Wives: Extra Time aired in the United States on BBC America under the title Footballers' Wives: Overtime.

Footballers' Wives: Extra Time
Opening credits title
Also known as	Footballers' Wives: Overtime
Created by	Maureen Chadwick Ann McManus
Starring	Courtney Akers Nicholas Ball Marc Bannerman Sarah Barrand Frances Da Costa Jamie Davis Elaine Glover Marc Hendrey Helen Latham Julie Legrand Sarah Matravers Georgina Mellor Dominique Moore Travis Oliver Louise Plowright Ben Richards Laila Rouass Tom Swire
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	25
Production
Executive producer	Cameron Roach
Producer	Di Burrows
Running time	20–25 Mins
Production company	Shed Productions
Original release
Network	ITV2
Release	26 May 2005 (2005-05-26) – 18 May 2006 (2006-05-18)
Related
Footballers' Wives

Background

Footballers' Wives: Extra Time was the spin-off to the award-winning original series Footballers' Wives. Picking up from the end of Footballers' Wives Series 4, it aired on ITV2.^[1][2]

Episodes

With success of the first series, ITV2 increased the episode lengths by 10 minutes and ordered one more episode 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 of series two consisted of 18 episodes at 20–25 minutes each. However, there is no explanation as to why the 18 episodes were put into 13 extended episodes for airing.

Both series aired on Thursdays at 10:00 pm, though for some episodes the time varied.

Cast

• Georgina Mellor as Anika Beevor (Series 1-2)
• Travis Oliver as Oliver Ryan (Series 1-2)
• Frances Da Costa as Yasmin Salter (Series 1-2)
• Marc Hendrey as Rees Salter (Series 1-2)
• Sarah Matravers as Joly Salter (Series 1-2)
• Tom Swire as Seb Webb (Series 1-2)
• Dominique Moore as Channel O'Grady (Series 1-2)
• Jack Pierce as Cash Brown (Series 1-2)
• Ben Richards as Bruno Milligan (Series 1-2)
• Helen Latham as Lucy Milligan (Series 1-2)
• Nicholas Ball as Gary Ryan (series 1-2; crossed over to series 5 of Footballers' Wives)
• Peter Ash as Darius Fry (Series 2)
• Julie Legrand as Janette Dunkley (Series 2)
• Louise Plowright as Michelle Thorn (Series 1)
• Alice Bird as Lizzy Robinson (Series 2)
• Ross Finbow as Woody (Series 2)
• Marc Bannerman as Matt Bryant (Series 1-2)

Special guest stars

• Sarah Barrand as Shannon Lawson (Series 1-2)
• Laila Rouass as Amber Gates (Series 1)
• Jamie Davis as Harley Lawson (Series 1)
• Elaine Glover as Katie Jones (Series 1)
• Craig Gallivan as Callum Watson (Series 2)
• Angela Ridgeon as Trisha Watson (Series 2)
• Courtney Akers as Angelica Milligan (Series 1-2)

Connected characters

These characters are connected to characters from the main series, Footballers' Wives.

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

DVD releases

Acorn Media announced that they will release both series of Footballers Wives: Extra Time with the Footballers Wives: Complete Collection box set in August 2012.

The Complete First Series
	Set Details			Special Features
	12 Episodes 2-Disc Set 16:9 Anamorphic Aspect Ratio Subtitles: English English (Stereo)			This set contains no special features.
	Release dates
	United Kingdom	Australia	United States
	3 July 2006	10 July 2006	TBC

Footballers' Wives Extra Time - Series 1 & 2
	Set Details			Special Features
	30 Episodes 4-Disc Set 16:9 Anamorphic Aspect Ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby Digital)			This set contains no special features.
	Release dates
	United Kingdom
	11 June 2012[3]

The Series 2 release in Australia has the original episode-plan of 18 episodes. However, the release of the Second half boxset has the aired version of 13 extended episodes (30 minutes).

Foreign audience

In the United States, BBC America has aired the first series, although it is known in the US as Footballers Wive$: Overtime.^[4][5] In Israel, the 2 series aired on channel Yes+. In Estonia, the first series was aired on Kanal 2.