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“Footballer’s” wives, that is
America has snagged Pom hit “Footballer’s Wives” with plans to turn it into a hit ABC Drama series. Filmmaker Bryan Singer – responsible for current TV hit, “House” – is in talks to direct, says Variety.
The new series, which will fix on football rather than soccer (obviously), has scored a pilot greenlight. Chris Brancato and Bert Salke are executive producing, with Marco Pennette writing and executive producing via Touchstone Television.
The original skein, which ran for four years on ITV and spawned a spinoff, was a campy mix of “Dallas” and “Desperate Housewives” revolving around three ordinary women whose lives are transformed by the celebrity and fortune that come with marriage to sports superstars.
