Waterloo Road Comprehensive
| Waterloo Road | |
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Opening Titles of Waterloo Road
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Ann McManus Maureen Chadwick |
| Written by | Various writers |
| Directed by | Various directors |
| Starring | Cast |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 200 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Rochdale, Manchester (1–7) Greenock, Scotland (8–10) |
| Running time | 60 minutes 90 minutes (1 episode) 10–12 minutes (Reunited) |
| Production company(s) |
Shed Productions BBC Scotland |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC Three (2015) BBC Three HD (2015) BBC One (2006–14) BBC One HD (2010–14) BBC HD (2009–10) BBC Online (Reunited - 2011) |
| Picture format |
1080i 16:9 (HDTV) (2009–15) 576i 16:9 (SDTV) (2006–15) |
| Original release | 9 March 2006 – 9 March 2015 |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Waterloo Road was a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, broadcast on BBC One and later also on BBC Three. The school was set in Rochdale, England from series one until the end of series seven, and from the beginning of series eight until the end of the show in series ten, the school was set in Greenock, Scotland. In 2014, it was confirmed that the 10th series of Waterloo Road would be the last. The first episode was broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006 and the final episode on BBC Three on 9 March 2015. Waterloo Road ran for 10 series, 200 episodes and exactly 9 years. Reruns air on CBS Drama in the UK. As of May 2017 Series One episodes have been uploaded to the Waterloo Road YouTube channel.
The first series contained eight episodes and ended on 27 April 2006. The show was subsequently commissioned for a second series consisting of twelve episodes. The second series began on 18 January 2007 and ended on 26 April 2007. A third series was commissioned, consisting of twenty episodes, premiering on 11 October 2007 and ending on 13 March 2008. The show's fourth series contained twenty episodes and aired from 7 January 2009 to 20 May 2009.
Waterloo Road came under the threat of being axed following the show's fourth series due to the planned demolition of the show's location at the time; however, these plans did not go ahead until after the seventh series and the show was commissioned for two additional series each consisting of twenty episodes. The fifth series started on 28 October 2009 and aired its finale on 15 July 2010. The sixth series ran from 1 September 2010 to 6 April 2011. A seventh series was commissioned in April 2010 and was later expanded to thirty episodes, which began airing on 4 May 2011 and ended on 25 April 2012.
Following the seventh series, the show was commissioned for a further fifty episodes to air over two series and relocated to its current setting of Greenock Academy in Scotland after the eventual demolition of the previous location in Rochdale. The Thornham Middle School was demolished in 2013. At its new location, Waterloo Road Comprehensive became an independent school as opposed to it being a comprehensive school in the past seven series. The eighth series ran for thirty episodes between 23 August 2012 and 4 July 2013. The school benefactor left Waterloo Road at the end of series eight and thus once more the school is a comprehensive. The ninth series ran for twenty episodes between 5 September 2013 and 12 March 2014.
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