Hope Springs is actually a television comedy-drama set following the lives of four female ex cons in hiding after having a multimillion pound robbery. Produced by Shed Productions, the organization behind Bad Girls, Footballers' Wives and Waterloo Road, July 2009, the 8-part series started airing on BBC One on 7 and completed on 26. After a single show, the BBC cancelled Hope Springs, because it"did not find its audience in how [they] had hoped."