Playing the Field (1998)★ 7.4/10
- Drama
- Romance
- Sport
Directed by: Dermot Boyd, Nicholas Laughland, Catherine Morshead, Paul Seed, Robin Sheppard
Written by: Katie Baxendale, Pete Davies, Gaynor Faye, Sarah-Louise Hawkins, Russell Lewis
A mismanaged women's soccer team in South Yorkshire, England struggles to win games. The players remain loyal to the team and one another despite their losing record. Their lives off the field involve relationships and infidelities.
- Original title
- Playing the Field
- Storyline
- The on-the-field trials and tribulations and the off-the-field lives, loves, and infidelities of the Castlefield Blues, an underfunded, badly-managed ladies' football team from South Yorkshire in the north of England whose loyalty to the team, the game, and one another far exceeds their chances of ever winning the championship.
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 387
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Tiger Aspect Productions, BBC Choice, BBC One, CBS Drama, Wizja 1
- Release dates
- GB March 8, 1998
- PL January 16, 2000