Footballers' Wives artwork. Acorn also released a "Complete Collection" box set featuring all five series, and both series of "Footballers' Wives Extra Time". Footballers' Wives Footballers' Wives (stylised as footballers wive$) is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006. The show initially focuses on three very different couples, but from the third series onward it revolves around a complex love triangle between Tanya Turner (Zöe Lucker), Amber Gates (Laila Rouass), and Conrad Gates (Ben Price).
Debbie Gates Debbie Gates Debbie Gates is a UK television writer and producer. She specialised in children's stories told on location by actors taking the parts of various characters without costumes, make-up or props. She is best known for writing and producing "Tales From Fat Tulip's Garden", broadcast by ITV in May and June, 1985. This series won prizes at the Chicago International Festival of Children's Films and the Children's Program at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It was followed by the sequel "Fat Tulip Too" (thirteen episodes shown during the summer of 1987) and then a Christmas special on 25