Waterloo Road Characters
Waterloo Road is a BBC television drama series set in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, and is about a troubled comprehensive school. The program focuses on its teachers and students, and confronts social issues, including affairs, abortion, divorce and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the production company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers’ Wives.
An eight part series was made in 2005 and aired in 2006. It was then re-commissioned for a second series, where the first seven episodes were airing on Sunday nights at 8pm in Scotland and Thursday nights at 8pm in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Series 2 finished airing 26 April 2007. Series 3 paused from airing for the Christmas break. Episodes halted in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with the end of year Cliffhanger on 13 December 2007 and 16 December 2007 in Scotland. Episodes resumed airing in Scotland on 6 January 2008 and in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on 10 January 2008. The series finale aired on Thursday 13 March 2008 in most of the UK apart from Scotland, who were left to wait until Monday 17 March 2008. Due to the success of Series 3, a fourth series of 20 episodes was commissioned.
Waterloo Road has been re-commissioned for a further 20 episodes in 2008, which will bring the total number of episodes to 60. Filming is expected to begin around April/May and air in 23 October 2008.
Kim Campbell in Series 1 & 2, revealed she will be returning for the new series. Chris Geere, who plays the character of Matt Wilding in the show, also revealed that two former cast members will return for Series 4.
There were rumours going around that the show may change to a weekly format being show for most of the year. It is also unclear whether Davina Shackleton will be returning to the series, as she suffered smoke inhalation as a result of the fire.
Ann McManus let slip that Eva Pope will not be returning to continue her role as headmistress as ‘Rachel Mason’. Her character was last seen trapped under rubble following a fire in the school that was started by Stuart Hordley at the end of a blackmail campaign in which he exposed her past as a teenage prostitute.
