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Waterloo Road

Season 1, Episode Number 1 (Episode 1)

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Released: 2006-03-09

Runtime: None minutes

Episode Overview

Headteacher of Waterloo Road Comprehensive, Jack Rimmer, hires Oxbridge graduate Andrew Treneman, hoping he can improve the school's failing status and bring them back from the bottom of the league tables. Meanwhile, colleagues Tom and Lorna tie the knot - but the groom ends up kissing someone who isn't his new wife.

Series Overview

Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.

Genres

  • Drama

Production Companies

  • Shed Productions ()
  • Wall to Wall (GB)
  • Rope Ladder Fiction ()
  • BBC (GB)

Additional Information

Popularity: 20.1671

Vote Average: 7.2 (26 votes)

Status: Returning Series

Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1p7