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
Monroe (TV series) A second series followed in 2012. On 14 November 2012, it was announced that ITV had cancelled Monroe due to low viewing figures. Screenwriter Peter Bowker announced to the trade magazine "Broadcast" in July 2009 that he was developing a "big medical drama" for ITV. Bowker had worked on medical dramas early in his career, including "Casualty" and "Medics". ITV's director of drama Laura Mackie told "The Stage" that the series would be "grown-up" and would be based around a single character, like ITV's "Doc Martin". Mackie believed that other broadcasters were reluctant to create series with one lead character—instead