Waterloo Road
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?
- Creator
- Ann McManus
- Creator
- Maureen Chadwick
- Status
- Returning series
- First air date
- 09/03/2006
- Original language
- English
Main cast
Seasons and episodes
Series 1
8 episodes · 2006Drama series set in a failing secondary school.
Series 2
12 episodes · 2007Drama series set in a failing secondary school.
Series 3
20 episodes · 2007Drama series set in a failing secondary school.
Series 4
20 episodes · 2009Drama series set in a failing secondary school.
Series 5
20 episodes · 2009War breaks out in the playground after the closure of a local private school leads to an influx of middle-class pupils at Waterloo Road.
Series 6
20 episodes · 2010New 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.
Series 7
30 episodes · 2011A 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 mor
Series 8
30 episodes · 2012Waterloo 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 h
Series 9
20 episodes · 2013Christine 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
Series 10
20 episodes · 2014New 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 ge
Series 11
7 episodes · 2023Riots, scandals, fractured families and familiar faces - Waterloo Road is back with a new term and a whole new attitude. Who said education was easy?
Series 12
7 episodes · 2023Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?
Series 13
8 episodes · 2024With a swathe of long-term refusers descending on Waterloo Road, the balance of peace and harmony rests on thin ice.
Series 14
8 episodes · 2024Waterloo Road sees a changing of the guard with new head Steve Savage.
Series 15
8 episodes · 2025New head, Dame Stella Drake, ushers in a new era at Waterloo Road.
Series 16
8 episodes · 2025Headteacher Stella is forced to navigate a fresh set of challenges.
Series 17
8 episodes · 2026Deputy Darius holds the keys to the kingdom. How far will he go to hold on to that power?
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