{"id":1641,"date":"2006-08-31T13:33:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T13:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/footballers_wiv\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T13:33:40","slug":"footballers_wiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/footballers_wiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Footballers Wives Not Yet in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandrepublic.com\/bulletins\/media\/article\/590176\/footballers-wives-set-stateside-remake\/\">trade press<\/a>, or follow <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,1861107,00.html\">Mediaguardian<\/a>, you can&#8217;t help to have noticed all the reports about how Footballers&#8217; Wives, the trashy ITV series, is being remade in US by ABC.<br \/>\nOn the surface, this seems like another successful deal for a British indie. But this is Shed Productions, who&#8217;ve seen Footballers&#8217; Wives finish its run in the UK now, with the threatened end of their other banker Bad Girls. They need a good result at the moment.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s actually happened is that a script has been commissioned in the usual pilots process that begins at this time of the year. If you listened to Paul Jackson&#8217;s series <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001623.html\">LA Stories<\/a> earlier this year on Radio 4, you&#8217;ll recall that each network buys roughly 60 scripts a year of which 8 will make it to the pilot stage, and 3 will be commissioned. So at the moment, that gives Footballers Wives a 5% chance of appearing. We can be generous and double that because series with track records abroad have a greater chance of appearing. But that&#8217;s still only a 1 in 10 shot. Not quite the story it once was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read the trade press, or follow Mediaguardian, you can&#8217;t help to have noticed all the reports about how Footballers&#8217; Wives, the trashy ITV series, is being remade in US by ABC. On the surface, this seems like another successful deal for a British indie. But this is Shed Productions, who&#8217;ve seen Footballers&#8217; Wives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}