Waterloo Road

7.1IMDb Score
Released:2006-03-09
Genre:Drama
Duration:60 min
Director:
Actors:Adam Thomas, Neil Fitzmaurice, Shauna Shim, Jo Coffey, Scarlett Thomas
Production:Shed Productions, Wall to Wall, Rope Ladder Fiction, BBC

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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