Foreign Audience
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Footballers' Wives has been shown in Portugal, Brazil, New Zealand, Sweden, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Bulgaria, Germany, the Republic of Macedonia, France, Estonia, Finland, South Africa, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Denmark and the United States. The Swedish broadcaster Kanal 5 retitled the show "Fotbollsfruar", which translates to Football Wives.
It began in the United States in the summer of 2005 on BBC America. The channel has shown series 1-5 and both seasons of Overtime.
In South Africa the show appeared on SABC 3 on Monday nights at 21h00. It was very popular. Aall five series have been shown.
The show appears in Ireland on TV3. Many Irish viewers receive Ulster Television (UTV) (a subsidiary of ITV) and also watch it on that channel. Often, the same episodes air at the same time.
In Turkey, Footballers' Wives is on e2. e2 has shown the first four series; the fifth season will be shown in spring.
In 2007 in the Netherlands, a similar series, Voetbalvrouwen (a literal Dutch translation) was launched. It was a huge success and in 2010 season 3 will appear on the Dutch channel RTL4. The original Footballers' Wives series were also shown in the Netherlands with Dutch subtitles.
In Germany, RTL made an attempt in 2005 to recreate the look and feel of the show with an adapted version, called Das geheime Leben der Spielerfrauen (The Secret Life of Footballers' Wives). The original scripts were rewritten to appeal to a German audience. The show failed terribly and was cancelled after only four episodes. The original show is currently shown on TIMM.
In Slovenia, Footballers' Wives is appearing on Kanal A as Žene nogometašev.
In Italy, Mediaset produced its own version of the series, Ho sposato un calciatore. It was axed after one series.
In June 2007, the show was being shown in Latin-America on the Fox Life channel.
The show is received in various parts of Asia (for example Singapore) on the BBC Entertainment cable channel.
In Canada, CBC Television launched MVP in early 2008. That show's creator acknowledged Footballers' Wives as an inspiration, but chose to create a similar series about ice hockey rather than directly adapting Footballers' Wives, as she felt that some elements of the original series — particularly the broad campiness of some British humour — would not translate well to a Canadian audience.
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