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).
Dean Andrews set in Sheffield. Andrews played Barry Shiel in the TV series "Buried", which won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series in 2004. In 2005, Andrews played the character of Steven Maynard in the ITV drama "Wire in the Blood". In 2006, he appeared in yet another BBC drama, "Life On Mars", as the character DS Ray Carling. In 2007, he appeared in the BBC dramas "True Dare Kiss" and "The Street". In 2008, he returned to play the character in the spin-off series "Ashes to Ashes". Andrews also had a small role in the Channel 4 series "No Angels"