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"Football Wives" Will Air in 2008-2009 ???

The internet is aflutter with rumors that the canceled ABC series Football Wives has been revived from cancellation ...

I previously reported that the ABC series (a remake of the British campy soapy hit Footballer's Wives) was canceled after the NFL pressured ABC to toss it from its schedule ... and after no other networks bit the bait and picked it up ...

But it seems that there has been internet chatter that ABC will pick up the series for the 2008-2009 television season ...

According to the Hollywood Reporter ... ABC has extended its options on the show's cast from taking roles on other series and suggests that ABC may still be interested in Football Wives ... Its high-profile cast includes: James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek"), Gabrielle Union ("Night Stalker"), Lucy Lawless ("Battlestar Galactica"), Kiele Sanchez ("Lost"), Eddie Cibrian ("Invasion") and Ving Rhames ("Mission: Impossible III") ...

I guess we will see if the rumors are in fact true ...

~Papi Chulo~

"Football Wives" Has Been Officially Canned!

One of the shows that I was eagerly anticipating for the fall 2007-2008 television season ... has officially died ...

Earlier this year it was announced that Ugly Betty co-executive producer Marco Pennette was set to helm an Americanized version of the hit BBC serial Footballer's Wives ... I was instantly excited ...

I absolutely love Footballer's Wives ... Tanya Turner has to be one of the most fantastic characters ever created for television ...

So as the month's passed some more information leaked about the series ... the title was announced as Football Wives ... and instead of focusing on soccer (since that sport is popular in Europe and not in the US) it will focus on American football ... and the fictional NFL team the Orlando Stingrays ...

Then ... cast information started to pour out ...