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Waterloo Road

2006 · 17 seasons · 1h per episode · Drama

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?

Seasons

• Series 1 — 8 episodes (March 9, 2006)
• Series 2 — 12 episodes (January 18, 2007)
• Series 3 — 20 episodes (October 11, 2007)
• Series 4 — 20 episodes (January 7, 2009)
• Series 5 — 20 episodes (October 28, 2009)
• Series 6 — 20 episodes (September 1, 2010)
• Series 7 — 30 episodes (May 4, 2011)
• Series 8 — 30 episodes (August 23, 2012)
• Series 9 — 20 episodes (September 5, 2013)
• Series 10 — 20 episodes (October 15, 2014)
• Series 11 — 7 episodes (January 3, 2023)
• Series 12 — 7 episodes (May 16, 2023)
• Series 13 — 8 episodes (January 2, 2024)
• Series 14 — 8 episodes (September 10, 2024)
• Series 15 — 8 episodes (February 11, 2025)
• Series 16 — 8 episodes (September 23, 2025)
• Series 17 — 8 episodes (January 6, 2026)

Cast

• James Baxter as Joe Casey
• Adam Thomas as Donte Charles
• Neil Fitzmaurice as Neil Guthrie
• Shauna Shim as Valerie Chambers
• Jo Coffey as Wendy Whitwell
• Summer Bird as Tonya Walters
• Scarlett Thomas as Izzy Charles
• Liam Scholes as Noel McManus
• Chiamaka Ulebor as Shola Aku
• Saira Choudhry as Nisha Chandra
• Miya Ocego as Lois Taylor-Brown
• Hattie Dynevor as Libby Guthrie

Details

Created by

Ann McManus and Maureen Chadwick

First aired

March 9, 2006

Episodes

254

Genres

Drama

Network

BBC One

Status

Returning Series

TMDB score

7.1 / 10 from 37 votes