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Footballers Wives The Complete Series 4 (DVD) |
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01.05.08 (136 review reads) |
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Advantages: Entertaining, fantastic drama
Disadvantages: Only 9 episodes, not as good as other series'
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Why I brought the DVD
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I have always been a huge fan of Footballers Wives since it first debuted on ITV back in 2002. I love watching the episodes again and again, they are just so easy to watch again and again. I watched the repeats when Footballers Wives was brought by Five and replayed on Five Life, and have all the DVD series to watch again and again.
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About Footballers Wives
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"Welcome to the world of Footballers' Wives, where everyone plays dirty..." is the catchphrase for this show.
Footballers Wives is an over the top. racey but fantasic soap opera like drama about the lives of young, sexy and rich footballers and their wives. The couples have all the money in the world, and wonderfully glamourous lifestyles and they should be having the time of their lives but the reality is very different.
There is never a dull moment in this fantastic show! There is always something going on, a story is never dragged out and there is always a dramatic event in every episode. If you're anything like me you will get bored and tired of soaps dragging out stories for months, but this doesn't happen on Footballers Wives, the longest you will wait to find something out is one episode! Footballers Wives is one of these programs that you can tell what is going to happen, it is over the top and predictible but is fantastic and I wouldn't want it any other way! In Series 4 the characters seem to have been developed considerably, they are not the same people they were in the previous series.
Footballers Wives is one of those programs that you either love or hate.
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About Footballers Wives Series 4
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Footballers Wives Series 4 was realised in 2005 and as with the other series, it aired on ITV. This is a short series containing only 9 episodes, compared to some of the others, but are all one hour long, so you get about 9 hours on the DVD to watch, still enough for a Footballers Wives marathon!
Old favourites, new characters and a host of guest celebrities are featured in Footballers Wives Series 4. Series 4 introduces some new characters - Bruno and Lucy Milligan and their adorable little daughter Angelica. Bruno is the Sparks latest signing. As Tanya Turner leaves the series, Bruno and Lucy begin to take over as the main characters. Conad and Amber Gates were big characters in series 3, and are also in the forefront in the first few episodes, then they start to be over shadowed by Bruno and Lucy. Roger Webb's son Seb Webb is introduced as another new player for Sparks, although he is the mangers son, he is treated less fairly than the other players.
As you get through the episodes, I feel as if less happens, the biggest and most eventful stories are right at the beginning.
Most of the episodes are written by Liz Lake, with a few written by other people, in my opinion you can see the difference in the episodes not written by Liz Lake, and I think there is something about her episodes that are better.
Tanya Turner - the ultimate footballers wife, and one of the only original characters leaves half way through the series, which is huge dissappointment. Tanya was my favourite character, and Footballers Wives is not the same without her. Although I love this series, I don't think that it is as good as previous series.
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How Series 3 ended
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Shannon had been out with the Footballers Wives before the final game and had still not got used to the life and the way to act as a footballers wife, she took advantage of all the free champagne and had way too much to drink, resulting in her collapsing in the toilets and missing Harley's goal, they have a huge argument and Shannon decides to go out clubbing on her own - not a good idea in the state she is in. While in the glitzy, celebrity club Shannon sees Darius who tries to kiss her which is caught on camera by some girls in the club who send the photos straight to the newspapers. The pictures are plastered all over the next days newspapers and Harley sees a picture of Shannon kissing Darius and immediately assumed Shannon was cheating on him. Shannon and Harley are separated at the start of series 4 due to all of this.
Noah was recently outed by Tanya Turner as gay and at the end of series 3 he is attacked by some Earls Park supporters who don't agree with him being gay.
Kyle Pascoe had a really tough time in series 3, having lost his wife Chardonnay and having a gambling problem. Kyle doesn't appear in series 4 but it is explained that Kyle went to Australia to retire.
The main cliffhanger in series 3 was Tanya Turner watching a video left by her late husband Frank Laslett, telling her he had got revenge on her by getting her pregnant, he had cut holes in all the condoms they had used! Tanya was under the impression than the baby was Conrad Gates' who she was now living with, also living with Conrad's wife he was seperated from Amber Gate, who was also pregnant, but he felt obliged to stand by her for the baby. The series also ended with Amber planting drugs in Tanyas bag, in an attempt to get Conrad all to herself!
Welcome to the very glamourous yet complicated and eventful life of Footballers Wives!
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Characters
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Tanya Turner - Zoe Lucker
Noah Alexander - Marcel McCalla
Hazel Bailey - Alison Newman
Jeanette Dunkley - Julie Le Grand
Darius Fry - Peter Ash
Amber Gates - Laila Rouass
Conrad Gates - Ben Price
Katie Jones - Elaine Glover
Harley Lawson - Jamie Davis
Shannon Lawson - Sarah Barrand
Bruno Milligan - Ben Richards
Lucy Milligan - Helen Latham
Jackie Webb - Gillian Taylforth
Roger Webb - Jessie Birdsall
Seb Webb - Tom Swire
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Technical Information
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Format: Box set, PAL
Language English
Region: Region 2
Number of discs: 3
Classification: 15
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
DVD Release Date: 20 Mar 2006
Run Time: 460 minutes
DVD Features:
Main Language: English
ASIN: B000C6EW4M
Special Features - Photo Gallery
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Price and Availability
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I brought my boxset from Blockbuster second hand for £6.99 but it can be brought band new on Amazon.co.uk for £17.98.
For more infomation go on www.footballerswives.tv. The DVD can also be purchased on Amazon through this website.
Summary: You'll either love it or hate it.
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