“I Hope Your Freakoid Baby Dies, Kyle!”
What ever would I do with myself if I weren’t addicted to guilty pleasures? I love Footballers Wives — also known as Footballer’s Wive$.* Sexy readers that live on the other side of the pond, in England, are probably all too familiar with this delightful piece of television programming but I’m not sure if everyone else is. Here’s where I come in. The Funky Brown Chick: Filling the Minds of Today’s World Citizens with Useless Information … One Post at a Time. To give you a crash course of sorts, here are three things to know about the show if you don’t know them already:
1. IT’S BRITISH. How could you not love British television? Our UK brethren are really good at: sophisticated crime/suspense thrillers (à la Second Sight starring Clive Owen) and really tacky humor. Needless to say, Footballers Wives falls into the latter category.
2. IT’S BAD. This show is soooo bad, that it’s actually really really good. With a tagline like “Everyone Plays Dirty” you have to love it. Hermaphrodite babies. Eating disorders. Nurses who molest their patients. It’s all there. I swear it’s like a train wreck that just gets worse and worse by the millisecond.
3. IT’S AVAILABLE. Footballers Wives has been on UK televisions for a few years now. You can catch the Episode 5.7 Premiere at 9:00pm this Thursday on ITV1. [UK site.] The series only washed up on US shores last summer, but it’s in such demand that additional series are on the way over as we speak. See it on Netflix or on BBC America at 10:00pm on Sundays. [US site.]
Have you already seen Footballers Wives? Do you love it? And, if you haven’t seen it, what other guilt pleasure(s) fill your time?
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* Yep. That’s a dollar sign at the end of that word. Why Footballer’s Wive$ and not Footba££ers Wives? Hmmm … I wonder if BBC America did that especially for us Yanks. I feel the love.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:16 am
I confess I haven’t actually watched it.
Currently addicted to watching 24.
April 4th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Yes I have seen it and yes I do love it! It’s on BBC America, the only station I watch with any regularity.
What a bunch of freakshows. Tanya is a trainwreck. I love her!
On another note, I seem to have misplaced your contact # and wanted to touch base…are we on for tomorrow? If so, I have a proposition for you. I think you will like it. Oh wait. Lent doesn’t end for another two weeks, does it?
Poop.
Text me!
April 4th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Ohh, I will have to keep my eye out for that one… Perhaps the $ at the end of “Wives” is a comment on how the women are obsessed with money? Possibly the pound sign might have indicated that is was the men were the gold-diggers?
My all time favorite guilty pleasure was 90210. I LOVED IT! They used to play it on FX all the time, but they don’t anymore. *sigh*
April 4th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Darwin: Seeee, you should move here; you already watch our television shows. :)
Sid: I knew you’d love it. We *ARE* cyber twins!! :) BTW, I’ll shoot you an email about getting together tomorrow.
MamaChristy: Ahhh, I remember 90210. That show was great!! I can still hear them chanting, “Donna Martin graduates. Donna Martin graduates!!” :) Did you watch the spinoff show Melrose Place, too?
April 5th, 2006 at 1:56 am
I keep seeing the adverts (is that British enough for you, darling?) [said in a British accent], but I keep missing it. You would think I would catch it, on account of my finally getting out of the Stone Age and having a TiVO unit, but no.
Let’s see–I currently watch The Sopranos, Big Love and my newest addiction is Lost. (Yeah, yeah–I’m joining the rest of the world on that one, finally, but keep in mind I didn’t even like The Simpsons until six years into the series.)
I also used to watch quite a bit of reality television. Not so much anymore.
April 5th, 2006 at 7:48 am
That programme disturbs me greatly. I’ve never been able to watch it and while I get a lot of stick from my family for watching silly things like Big Brother, I’m not allowed to comment on my mother’s addiction to Footballers Wives.
April 5th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Andy: Ooooh, TiVO. I don’t have it, but I’ve heard it’s pretty cool!! I, too, used to be addicted to reality television in the not-so-distant past.
Nics: You don’t watch it?!?! But, you’re in the UK! You get all of the NEW episodes. I’m seething with jealousy!
April 6th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
you wont believe what happens in the next few series!!!!!
April 6th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
HOLY MOLY! I just had to comment. I LOOOOOOOOOVE FootBaller’s Wives. I started watching it when I moved to England for a bit last year. And now thanx to Netflix I’ve been able to backtrack to past seasons! gotta go back to England….lol
April 7th, 2006 at 7:59 am
katie: Don’t tell me. Don’t tell me. :) I rented the series from Netflix and I’m only on Season 1, Episode 6. It’s the episode where Jason has a final run-in with Biaggi. The incident costs Jas more than he thinks it will. The episode also contains what I’ve been told is the #2 hottest sex scene on British TV. Two words: Pool. Table. … By the way, WELCOME TO THE BLOG!! :)
marie_butudontknowme: Isn’t is GREAT?!?!!? They’re already on Season *5* over there, so I’m sure that you already know what happens with everyone. Wow! It’s like you’re from the future — FootBaller’s Wives Future.