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Michael Byrne (Alec Newman, series 7−8) is the Headteacher of Waterloo Road in both Rochdale and Scotland. A so-called "super Head", he is appointed with a mandate to reverse the school's fortunes but struggles with trauma after being stabbed at his last school.
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as alcoholism, pyromania, teenage pregnancy, fostering, exorcism, coercive control, freeganism, adoption, pole-dancing, rape, burn injury, terminal illness, workplace bullying, self-harming, deafness ...
New headteacher Michael Byrne arrives at Waterloo Road with big ambitions to improve the school, bringing with him a team of high-achieving teachers including newly-weds Jez and Sian Diamond and former Waterloo Road teacher Matt Wilding.
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. In September 2021, the show was recommissioned for an eleventh series , with production returning to the Greater Manchester area.
The show is set in a failing comprehensive school of the same name and focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the students and staff. [3] The show was initially filmed on a former primary school site in Kirkholt, Rochdale, [4] before moving production to a former secondary school site in Greenock, Scotland for series eight to ten. [5]
Adam Thomas dubbed the revival of Waterloo Road "the best series yet". [101] Sue Haasler of the Metro observed, "Excitement is mounting for the return of school-based drama Waterloo Road". [17] John Byrne from RTÉ included the opening episode in his television highlights feature and wrote, "Should be interesting to see how this revival goes."
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as bullying, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, losing a baby, an affair between a teacher and a pupil, online abuse, overactive bladder syndrome, suicide, knife crime and drug abuse.
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as drink driving, underage driving, bullying, homosexuality, marital problems, exclusion, Huntington's disease, teenage pregnancy, abortion, bereavement, sexual harassment, mental illness and suicide.