TV series

Waterloo Road

2006★ 7.1 · 37Returning Series17 seasonsDrama

Overview

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

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Cast

James Baxter
as Joe Casey

Adam Thomas
as Donte Charles

Neil Fitzmaurice
as Neil Guthrie

Shauna Shim
as Valerie Chambers

Jo Coffey
as Wendy Whitwell

Summer Bird
as Tonya Walters

Scarlett Thomas
as Izzy Charles

Liam Scholes
as Noel McManus

Chiamaka Ulebor
as Shola Aku

Saira Choudhry
as Nisha Chandra

Danny Murphy
as Luca Smith

Miya Ocego
as Lois Taylor-Brown

Seasons

Series 1

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Episodes: 8

Series 2

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Episodes: 12

Series 3

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Episodes: 20

Series 4

Drama series set in a failing secondary school.

Episodes: 20

Series 5

War breaks out in the playground after the closure of a local private school leads to an influx of middle-class pupils at Waterloo Road.

Episodes: 20

Series 6

New head teacher Karen Fisher sets out to revolutionise Waterloo Road but her steely exterior masks a dark personal tragedy which threatens to derail her leadership.

Episodes: 20

Series 7

A gang war breaks out at Waterloo Road, threatening to derail Michael's efforts to turn the school around, and Josh struggles with an escalating drug problem which is masking a more serious illness.

Episodes: 30

Series 8

Waterloo Road benefactor Lorraine wants a return on her investment but super head Michael insists that you can't make money from education. Will Lorraine listen, or is the school heading for disaster?

Episodes: 30

Series 9

Christine settles in as head of Waterloo Road but quickly finds new deputy Simon is after her job. As well as unruly students and her drink problem, old friend George is not all he seems.

Episodes: 20

Series 10

New head Vaughan Fitzgerald arrives with his partner Allie and her two children. When his two teenage sons from a previous marriage arrive unexpectedly to live with them, it all gets very complicated.

Episodes: 20