Without a doubt the worst decade for British television was the Noughties. We got 'Big Brother', 'Little Britain', 'Celebrity Love Island', 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here', 'Celebrity Wrestling', 'Pop Idol', 'Fame Academy', I.T.V.'s ill-fated 'Crossroads' revival, 'Strictly Come Dancing', and 'Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway'. Dreadful shows every one of them. In his novel '1984', George Orwell envisioned a future in which a totalitarian regime brainwashed citizens with trashy novels designed to destroy intelligent thought. He was almost right: for trashy novels read trashy T.V., and there was no better an example of this than 'Footballers' Wives', a train wreck of a series that made 'Neighbours' look like Shakespeare. It centred round a group of...well, footballers' wives who drank, took drugs and slept with every man who crossed their paths. It was surprising that the feminists failed to invade the studio where it was made to pelt the cast with eggs and flour bombs. Perhaps having women in key positions of power on British T.V. nowadays has blinded them to this? 'Footballers' Wives' flopped originally, and it was only when the tabloids came galloping to its rescue with a blitz of coverage did it secure a second season. So now you know who to blame for this cynically-motivated crap. There was even an American version, mercifully brief. On May 3rd 2006, common sense prevailed finally, and it was axed, hopefully never to return.

Footballers Wives is one of the best television drams to come out of the UK. It started its third series last night and it is still as racey and raunchy as the previous series'. Tanya is still incredible as a Footballers Wife. New arrivals Conrad and Amber Gates keep the show glamorous. Although alot of the original characters have departed to do other things the show is still great with its replacements. No one can beat Tanya and Hazel though. They make the show what it is. Absolutely amazing. I hope this programme goes on for more and more series'. I just love it.

This is one of the best shows to watch, you don't need to know everything that has happened beforehand to watch and the storyline's aren't very taxing after a long day at work.The show follows (as you've probably guessed) Premiership footballers and their wives. There are Jason (seasons 1 & 2) and Tanya (season 1 - ), the constantly sparring, schemeing and cheating couple. He's a sex-mad, homophobic bad buy and captain of Earls Park Rangers while she's a cocaine addict, attempted murderer and TV's biggest bitch.Next there's the dull Walmsley family, who only lasted 1 1/2 seasons on the show.The Pascoes consist of Kyle (season 1 - )and his glamour model wife Chardonnay (seasons 1 & 2), as well as his mother Jackie. They are very Posh and Becks. In season 1 Jackie got pregnant with Jason Turner's baby, and then Char learned she couldn't have kids so they came up with the crazy idea that she and Kyle would bring up Jackie's baby. But as ever in FW things went wrong and it turned out that the baby had both male and female reproductive organs. At the end of season two, Jackie left with baby Paddy. Will she return?There are also other characters, Salvitore Biagi (another footballer), who had an affair with Donna Walmsley, Freddie Hauser (his new love interest), Stefan (her father, manager of Earls Park) and Frank (who Tanya tried to kill and also works at Earls Park).Overall this show is great!

The second season has just finished and it was pretty average with some over the top writing from about episode 4 onwards when jason found that his baby had female organs when it is actually a boy and then in the final episode jason get pushed of a building but by who. I just hope this does not becomes as silly as dallas became