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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.
Series 15 was announced along with series 13 and 14 by the BBC in August 2023. [1] In January 2025, further details around the series was revealed, with 8 episodes commissioned for the fifteenth series, it also confirmed that Series 15 would premiere on 11 February 2025, with the full series being released on BBC iPlayer prior to transmission.
The eleventh series of the British television series Waterloo Road commenced airing on 3 January 2023, and concluded on 14 February 2023. This show marks the first full series of Waterloo Road since the show was cancelled after series 10. The series follows the staff and pupils of the fictional Waterloo Road High School in Greater Manchester.
Stories from the show's previous series were continued into this series as part of the characters' ongoing development. The fallout from Danny Lewis (Adam Addou) bringing a knife into school and stabbing local gangster Vinny McCullen (Jason Milligan) in self-defense is a major focus, impacting several characters including music teacher Valerie Chambers (Shauna Shim), Danny's guardian who hid ...
The majority of series regulars from the thirteenth series reprised their roles for this series, these included James Baxter, Jo Coffey, Neil Fitzmaurice, Rachel Leskovac, Kym Marsh, Katherine Pearce, Shauna Shim, and Adam Thomas, portraying Joe Casey, Wendy Whitwell, Neil Guthrie, Coral Walker, Nicky Walters, Amy Spratt, Valerie Chambers, and Donte Charles, respectively. [3]
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]
The carrot being the promise of a free bus to Waterloo Road on the first day of the new term, and the stick highlighting that truancy is a criminal offence with a potential £2000 fine. Tonya is spotted shoplifting at the local off-licence, but an intervention by new pupil Schuey, results in them getting away.
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 death, running away from home, prostitution, child grooming, HIV/AIDS, child abuse, homosexuality, Asperger syndrome, deportation, activism, blackmail, plagiarism and assault.