Footballers' Wives Lucker, Sarah Barrand, Laila Rouass, Halacy Kurenski and Ben Richards, who played their respective roles, with "Sport Relief" host Graham Norton playing new Sparks captain Brendan Spunk. Between the third and fourth series of "Footballers' Wives", Zöe Lucker's character Tanya Turner crossed over to Shed Media's "Bad Girls" for three episodes of that programme's sixth series. In "Bad Girls", which centres on a women's prison, Tanya is convicted for drug possession and sent to jail for six months. After stirring up mischief in the prison and even being arrested for poisoning inmates, Tanya is eventually released when a series of
ITV Studios format "Holding out for a Hero", "Take on the Twisters" and "Big Star's Little Star" for ITV and "Coach Trip", "Celebrity Coach Trip" and "Christmas Coach Trip" for Channel 4. On 5 December 2007, it was announced that ITV had acquired 12 Yard for £35 million. World Productions is a television production company founded on 20 March 1990 by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett and owned by ITV Studios since May 2017. The company's first major series was the police drama "Between The Lines" (BBC One, 1992–1994), and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of drama series.