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Article: Footballers' Wives team set for [pounds sterling]22m win bonus; IMPLAUSIBLE STORYLINES AND EXPLICIT SEX LEAD TO CULT SUCCESS AND FLOTATION FEVER.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2005
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Byline: JONATHAN PRYNN
THEY brought us Footballers' Wives.
And today it emerged that they are set to become wealthier than Chardonnay, Tanya and Donna.
Eileen Gallagher, Maureen Chadwick, Ann McManus and Brian Park - founders of Shed Productions - are expected to share a [pounds sterling]22 million windfall when their TV firm is floated later this year.
The four met while working at Granada TV. Chadwick worked as a scriptwriter on Coronation Street alongside story editor McManus and producer Park.
In 1998 they decided to go it alone and set up shop in the East End, settling on the name after joking: "We were either going to ...