THURSDAY 09 MARCH
Drama
Waterloo Road
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC1 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 7847
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described
Episode written by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus
1/8
This new drama series from the people who gave the world Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls is set in the eponymous run-down northern comprehensive school whose pupils leave not with GCSEs, but "an Asbo or a bun in the oven". And those are the headmaster's words. It's a hopelessly chaotic place, filled with surly pupils and staff who struggle to impose even minimal order. Considering its lurid stablemates, you'd be forgiven for expecting Waterloo Road to inhabit similar territory. In fact, it's peopled by comfortable stereotypes, drawn in broad brush strokes - middle-class characters are snooty and insensitive, working-class ones are either thugs or the salt of the earth. It's packed with familiar faces, mainly soap renegades including Jill Halfpenny (ex-EastEnders and Coronation Street) and Angela Griffin (ex-Corrie and Holby City).
RT reviewer: Alison Graham
Jack Rimmer - Jason Merrells
Izzie Redpath - Jill Halfpenny
Kim Campbell - Angela Griffin
Tom Clarkson - Jason Done
Andrew Treneman - Jamie Glover
Lorna Dickey - Camilla Power
Steph Haydock - Denise Welch
Grantly Budgen - Philip Martin Brown
Mika Grainger - Lauren Drummond
Chlo Grainger - Katie Griffiths
Jimmy Grainger - David Crellin
Donte Charles - Adam Thomas
Clarence Charles - Steve Money
Estelle Cooper - Judith Barker
Brian Vaisey - Jeff Merchant
Sgt Hendy - Seamus O'Neill
Stephen - Joel Cheetham
Mr Seymour - Robin Simpson
Mrs Seymour - Laura Richmond
Holly - Daisy Wignall
Stacey Walsh - Stephanie Laguna Walker
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RTKangaMummy · 09/03/2006 18:24
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