Why isnt waterloo road on

Despite its absence from the TV schedules, the programme found a new audience after the boxset was released on BBC iPlayer in The corporation said the show was particularly popular with younger and more diverse audiences. The BBC is set to reveal another new drama series from the nations [Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales] soon, as part of its pledge to move more programmes outside of London. While some people, like the actress Shannon Flynn, have said they are "excited" about the return of Waterloo Road, some TV critics expressed scepticism about it being considered a new show for the North.

It was announced in June that Holby City, the long-running BBC medical drama, was to end after 23 years in order to create new opportunities elsewhere. Same as the old BBC Northern continuing drama," joked Nick Walker, creator of the Daytime Snaps account on Twitter, which often goes viral with its humorous television screengrabs.

Executive producer Roach, who has also previously worked on another BBC drama series Life on Mars, said he was "thrilled" to "re-ignite the iconic brand" of Waterloo Road. All about Waterloo Road. Subscribe today. Promoted by RadioTimes. Read More. McManus and Chadwick — as they had done in Footballers' Wives and Bad Girls — also incorporated fictionalised versions of recent news stories into Waterloo Road: curriculum or exam fads of new education secretaries, sexual relationships between staff and students or, in the seventh series, a teenager who was detained for the murder of a child with clear echoes of the James Bulger case.

An important lesson was also learned from Grange Hill. According to Phil Redmond , one of the reasons the show survived for three decades was the fact that a school has natural turnover of personnel, with teachers and pupils leaving and arriving each year. This makes re-casting much simpler than, say, on a family soap, where the actor playing the mother gets a stage role and asks to go.

For the final series, Neil Pearson will arrive as the new head. But, if school shows can easily replace actors, the stock cupboard of plots is harder to refresh. Schoolchildren aren't allowed to leave after Year 10, but Waterloo Road is right to do so. Almost everything that can happen in or to a school — fire, suicide, homicide — has already occurred. The final run would logically end with the closure of Waterloo Road, but even that twist has already been used when it moved to Scotland.

At least, with the drama now set in the country that suffered Dunblane, we can hopefully rule out any climactic act of violence on the premises.