WATERLOO ROAD______________BBC1________8.00pm___________

[RTKangaMummy]

THURSDAY 09 MARCH

Drama

Waterloo Road

8:00pm - 9:00pm

BBC1 London & South East

VIDEO Plus+: 7847
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described

Episode written by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus

1/8

This new drama series from the people who gave the world Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls is set in the eponymous run-down northern comprehensive school whose pupils leave not with GCSEs, but "an Asbo or a bun in the oven". And those are the headmaster's words. It's a hopelessly chaotic place, filled with surly pupils and staff who struggle to impose even minimal order. Considering its lurid stablemates, you'd be forgiven for expecting Waterloo Road to inhabit similar territory. In fact, it's peopled by comfortable stereotypes, drawn in broad brush strokes - middle-class characters are snooty and insensitive, working-class ones are either thugs or the salt of the earth. It's packed with familiar faces, mainly soap renegades including Jill Halfpenny (ex-EastEnders and Coronation Street) and Angela Griffin (ex-Corrie and Holby City).

RT reviewer: Alison Graham

Jack Rimmer - Jason Merrells

Izzie Redpath - Jill Halfpenny

Kim Campbell - Angela Griffin

Tom Clarkson - Jason Done

Andrew Treneman - Jamie Glover

Lorna Dickey - Camilla Power

Steph Haydock - Denise Welch

Grantly Budgen - Philip Martin Brown

Mika Grainger - Lauren Drummond

Chlo Grainger - Katie Griffiths

Jimmy Grainger - David Crellin

Donte Charles - Adam Thomas

Clarence Charles - Steve Money

Estelle Cooper - Judith Barker

Brian Vaisey - Jeff Merchant

Sgt Hendy - Seamus O'Neill

Stephen - Joel Cheetham

Mr Seymour - Robin Simpson

Mrs Seymour - Laura Richmond

Holly - Daisy Wignall

Stacey Walsh - Stephanie Laguna Walker

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I'd better not watch this, seeing as I want to work in a school

Can anyone tell me how come the new deputy was in a position to start a new job at a day's notice in the middle of a term - I missed it cos I was on MN

Saw a bit when I was tidying up and it looked shit

So predictable...

Just turned over to a prog about Crufts & there is a woman who rescues Great Danes who looks like a Great Dane

its a lot tamer, and therefore less amusing than Bad Girls.

i think the first series of "teachers" was better. but then turned into a pile of old plop after

fisil - pretty sure in the first scenes the headteacher said "you'll have no problem starting in a month" and the deputy said "no" so I think there was a time delay.

DH woke our 5 month old DD up when he gasped at one of the final scenes!!

he started in a month - my immediate comment to dh was haha that is unrealistic as he would have to give half a term's notice
:)

anyway - be knid....a friend of mine was in it

who - do tell !

I liked it, it was actually really good. Though it did make me comment that when DD goes to comp school they'll be in cages

:)

I thought it looked promising. Will watch next one and then decide. Spent most of the programme trying to work out which programmes all the actors had been in. Was Tom Clarkson(Jason Done) the original Steven in Where the Heart is ?

Poor version of Teachers without the (intended) humour, altho only watched half of it.

Kayleigh- don't think so, that was William Ash, who was in Burn it on BBC3

threelittlebabies, you've made me google ! He was definitely in Where the Heart Is. Think he was the first or second Stephen then as there has definitely been more than one.
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Yes! He was the 2nd. Were there more than 2???

Don't think there were more than 2. Didn't watch last series - was starting to find it a bit boring. Liked it better when the original Snow family were all in it !

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Thank you - off to watch

You're welcome

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