Footballers' Wives: Extra Time (stylised as footballers wive$: extra time) is a British drama programme. A spin-off of Footballers' Wives, the programme aired on ITV2 for two series. Footballers' Wives: Extra Time aired in the United States on BBC America under the title Footballers' Wives: Overtime.
Background
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time was the spin-off to the award-winning original series Footballers' Wives. Picking up from the end of Footballers' Wives Series 4, it aired on ITV2.[1][2]
Episodes
With success of the first series, ITV2 increased the episode lengths by 10 minutes and ordered one more episode than the first series.
Series
Number of episodes
Length of episodes (no breaks)
Length of episodes (with breaks)
1
12
20 minutes
30 minutes
2
13
30 minutes
45 minutes
The original episode line-up of series two consisted of 18 episodes at 20–25 minutes each. However, there is no explanation as to why the 18 episodes were put into 13 extended episodes for airing.
Both series aired on Thursdays at 10:00 pm, though for some episodes the time varied.
These characters are connected to characters from the main series, Footballers' Wives.
Character
Relation
Anika Beevor
Tanya Turner's half-sister
Oliver Ryan
Gary Ryan's son
Yasmin Salter
Bruno Milligan's daughter
Rees Salter
Bruno Milligan's son
Joly Salter
Bruno Milligan's ex-wife
Seb Webb
Roger Webb's son
DVD releases
Acorn Media announced that they will release both series of Footballers Wives: Extra Time with the Footballers Wives: Complete Collection box set in August 2012.
The Series 2 release in Australia has the original episode-plan of 18 episodes. However, the release of the Second half boxset has the aired version of 13 extended episodes (30 minutes).
Foreign audience
In the United States, BBC America has aired the first season, although it is known in the US as Footballers Wive$: Overtime.[4][5] In Israel, the 2 seasons aired on channel Yes+. In Estonia, the first season was aired on Kanal 2.