Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road is a television drama series and in my opinion an upgraded version of Grange Hill!! It is set in Rochdale, Greater Manchester and is about a troubled comprehensive school. The programme focuses on its teachers and students, and confronts social issues, including affairs, abortion, divorce and suicide, and many other storylines...drink drugs....etc Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the production company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives. After making an eight part series it was launched and aired in 2006 and after being recommissioned several times we are now in the fifth series which started in ...  Read the complete review

What is Waterloo Road? ************************* Waterloo Road is a weekly BBC drama, set in a school. Think 'Grange Hill' meets 'Teachers' with a hint of Hollyoaks mixed in for good measure. When is it on? ****************** The series is on for about 20 weeks of the year and usually starts in the autumn which is nice as it gives you something to watch during the cold winter weeks! The show is an hour long, shown every Wednesday on BBC1 at 8pm and can also be viewed on BBC Iplayer if you miss an episode. The show is currently on it's fifth series and had definitely deserved its high popularity. Who's in ...  Read the complete review

Waterloo Road is a BBC drama set in a secondary school in England. It has been running for a few years, and has had the usual coming and going of characters, though a few have remained and a few have recently returned. The show is mostly takes place at the school and follows the stories of both staff and students, sometimes venturing into their homes or the local pub. There is an interesting assortment of characters, and several staff and students with a comedy role to keep the show amusing. Many key school based storylines have been covered over the years- gun crime, teenage pregnancy, drugs, sex, affairs with staff, affairs amonst the staff, ...  Read the complete review

What is it? Waterloo Road is a BBC television drama shown on BBC 1 which is based in a high school setting. This high school appears to be more underachieving than average and also will have more scandals and weird teenage problems that most run-of-the-mill schools. Currently Waterloo Road is off air, however a new series is very likely. Storylines/Acting Quality: The storylines are very similar, teenage pregancy, gun crime within schools, obsessive parents, poor results, personal problems ... the list does literally just go on! Normally the storylines are well written, and although they may be one major storyline per episode, there is normal ...  Read the complete review

absolutely brilliant program!!! the program is about a school called waterloo road and they portray the day to day life of school showing both lives of the teachers and the pupils. the cover very good storylines like murders and fires in the school. the series runs over 20 weeks covering 1 main storyline throughout and then other stories everyweek. the program is aired on bbc1. the program is aimed at a target audience of familys because its good for any age but there is some mild threat and language in the series but also some violence and scenes of a sexual nature however all this happens in school so its nothing children in a comprehensive school would ...  Read the complete review