Possibly the most under-rated show on TV. The sky one football is like footballer's wives but with footballers and dream time is also miles better, with class storylines and some good characthers. Is it just me that watches it or do some other people wtahc it on bj?.

I loved this till after most of the team were killed off then found I wasn't bothered if I missed a few episodes.

I have tried to get back into it but not succeeded yet.

Yeah its quite slow at the moment but it is really hotting yp now as there are some major question to be answered in the next month; like who is the owner? and why is he obsessed with dempsey? and Ryan might be dead as well as he looks to have done a Clyde.

Used to love it but it got FAR to far fetched when at the end of every bloody season the team were always killed :rolleyes: . So i just lost intrest. :(

Meh........but it was needed to kiill off the team as they were all crap characthers tbh. They've got better ones now like the Rose brothers and Liam.

I used to watch it loads but I don't have Sky anymore :(

I've never taken to Footballers' Wives so I didn't bother watching dream Team. Maybe I should give it a go. What channel is it on and when, please?

sundays on sky one at 8.00.

 

Used to love this show, espcially when Jerry Block was in charge

sundays on sky one at 8.00.

 

Used to love this show, espcially when Jerry Block was in charge

 

Don't mention him to all the massive fans. He's supposivley dead now...an off-screen one and some people still think he's the new owner which I reckon is gonna be revealed next week as there is a double bill and then the executive producer is on www.harchester.net for a live web chat......which could also mean a major charachter been killed off as they did that when Fletch had his head impailed on a peg.

I love it! The season 8 finale was just too good. But, as stupid as this sounds, I always forget to watch it. :P

Dream Team is one of my favourite shows!

Don't mention him to all the massive fans. He's supposivley dead now...an off-screen one and some people still think he's the new owner which I reckon is gonna be revealed next week as there is a double bill and then the executive producer is on www.harchester.net for a live web chat......which could also mean a major charachter been killed off as they did that when Fletch had his head impailed on a peg.

Ewwwwww- they impaled Fletch on a peg? CLASSY.

 

Jerry Block :cheer: Is Linda still there?

Yeah Linda is still there but she's rotting away in jail AGAIN at the moment for stealing all this money (which she didn't), but everyone thinks its her. Cannot wait till next weeks double bill now as hopefully the owners will be revealed.

The next Series will be the last :(

The next Series will be the last :(

Yeah I got this from MediaGuardian.co.uk

 

Final whistle for Dream Team

 

Maggie Brown

Tuesday April 11, 2006

 

 

Dream Team: tenth series will be its last

 

Dream Team, Sky One's long-running drama about Harchester football club, has been cancelled after 10 years by the channel's new director of programmes, Richard Woolfe.

Jane Hewland, the programme's creator and executive producer, said today the 10th series of the Sunday night drama now in production would be the last.

 

Ms Hewland, who makes Dream Team through her independent production company, Hewland International, added that she had probably made a mistake by killing off a lot of characters at the beginning of the current series, which had led to a collapse in ratings.

 

But she said that a bigger problem was the plunge in Sky One's ratings as multichannel competition intensified and she pointed to tensions within BSkyB between its sports division and entertainment and news networks.

 

Mr Woolfe, who joined Sky earlier this year after running Living TV, has been charged with reviving Sky One's fortunes.

 

He is expected to try to do this through commissioning eye-catching factual formats, as he did at Living TV with shows such as Most Haunted, and a better choice of American acquisitions.

 

Ms Hewland said Mr Woolfe's decision to cancel Dream Team came as a relief because of the strain of producing the low-budget show - which she described as the "Kwik Save of drama".

 

"I am so relieved. For the last four years it has been a bit of a nightmare doing it, it feels like a kind of liberation," she said.

 

Ms Hewland added that over the course of the decade Dream Team had been in production, "I have dodged so many bullets from incoming controllers, ranging from David Bergg to James Baker. I wish them every luck."

 

The drama series, which is ordered as 32 hour-long episodes each year, has been produced on a shoestring budget of around £150,000 an hour, at least half that of mainstream terrestrial productions.

 

Ms Hewland said it had been a terrible strain and the low budgets had finished it off.

 

"We've been the Kwik Save of drama. Not a good place to be. For that you can't attract decent writers, so I ended up doing an awful lot of writing and changes myself."

 

By making Dream Team through her own company, Ms Hewland, 57, does not have the pressure of outside shareholders, having resisted merger approaches.

 

"There is basically just me, I have bugger all overheads, I am back where I started from 13 years ago. That is scary but liberating," she said.

 

Dream Team, which was inspired partly by one of Sky Sports' founding executives, David Hill, was originally devised as a drama for boys and men.

 

Unlike Footballers' Wives, the drama always made a point of focusing on the football and not just off-the-pitch relationships - although this side does feature.

 

The production is shot on location at Millwall football club and mixes footage of real footballers with the cast.

 

Ms Hewland has a new drama idea in development for Channel 4, and has no intention of retiring.

 

A Sky One spokesman confirmed that Dream Team would come to an end after its 10th series next year.

 

He said the channel would be looking to commission a new drama series to air from autumn 2007. Production on the 10th and last series begins in July and will air on Sky One in the autumn.

 

"The trailblazing series, which will complete over 400 episodes of originated drama for Sky One ... has won numerous industry awards and continues to entertain fans every Sunday. Dream Team will continue to lead the way with distinctive and edgy storylines in its testimonial year," the broadcaster said in a statement.

 

 

I'm gutted, but at least Series 10 should be amazing.

 

The writers of Series 3 and 4 are coming back for it apparently..

Meh.....well tbh its quite over due as the storylines are beginning to go a bit repetative but I expect it'll go out with a huge bang.

Sorry I have to have a rant.....I can't be bothered to sign up for the official forum but this is miles better than Eastenders/Corrie/Emmerdale for the reason that there are no spoilers avaliable.

 

Tonights double bill had so many twists and turns. 4 eps to go in the series and next week looks pretty big; the owner is going to be revealed and their is a death of a charachter who has quit the show and can be anybody minus Dempsey or Linda as Dempsey commits the murder......as much as I don't want it to be, my money is on Ryan or Liam.

Sorry I have to have a rant.....I can't be bothered to sign up for the official forum but this is miles better than Eastenders/Corrie/Emmerdale for the reason that there are no spoilers avaliable.

 

Tonights double bill had so many twists and turns. 4 eps to go in the series and next week looks pretty big; the owner is going to be revealed and their is a death of a charachter who has quit the show and can be anybody minus Dempsey or Linda as Dempsey commits the murder......as much as I don't want it to be, my money is on Ryan or Liam.

Feel free to have a rant :lol: It sounds good, what channel is it on again?

Sky One as 8pm. On about the death once again its has to be one my fav's thats gonna bite the dust......but there is a twist in it though as the episode guide states that Dempsey realizes he's commited murder.....