Raye
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In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen
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Post by Raye on Jul 21, 2006 6:50:36 GMT
Since in BCCAmerica shows Hex right before it, what do people here think about it or do you even like it?
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Post by DreamDangerously on Jul 21, 2006 16:12:36 GMT
as a teacher I'd say it bears as much relation to the realities of teaching as monkey keeping does.
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Post by cassiehughes on Jul 21, 2006 17:20:13 GMT
I end up watching the last 20 minutes of it every week (nothing like getting a front row seat for Hex in my own theater right  ). I agree that it really doesn't show teachers in a realistic light. I also have some difficulty understanding some of the accents. It's an OK show, but I'm more of a Footballer's Wives fan than Wateerloo Road ( Although Hex obviously takes the cake!) 
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Raye
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Post by Raye on Jul 21, 2006 19:35:38 GMT
The cockney accents are the only ones that get confusing sometimes. The kids mostly have thick ones. Janeece and Luis especially, though I have a language fetish so the more I watch the more I get it. Its getting as easy to distinguish as japanese.
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Post by fenris on Jul 22, 2006 11:35:40 GMT
Look out for Anna Wilson-Jones (Jo Watkins in Hex). She appears in Waterloo Road as a recurring character in the last few episodes before the end of the first season.
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Post by cassiehughes on Jul 22, 2006 14:23:30 GMT
She [Jo] was on the last episode. I walked into the kitchen and for a split second though I'd lost track of time and Hex had started already! Nope, she was just on Waterloo Road.
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Raye
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Post by Raye on Jul 23, 2006 3:31:54 GMT
Kami-sama, I didn't even recognize her she's been looking so bad on hex lately! She was the inspector chick right?
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Post by fenris on Dec 30, 2008 20:11:34 GMT
The new series of Waterloo Road starts on BBC1 next week, on 07/01/09 at 20:00.
There were rumours earlier in the year that the Beeb were thinking of transforming Waterloo Road into a daily half-hour daytime soap, to fill the gap left by Neighbours going across to Five. Thankfully it hasn't happened.
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Post by fenris on Oct 21, 2009 19:17:38 GMT
The new series of Waterloo Road begins on BBC1 at 20:00 on Wednesday 28th October. There are several new cast-members, including Strictly Come Dancing winner Tom Chambers as executive head Max Tyler, Sarah-Jane Potts (Sugar Rush and Kinky Boots) as head of languages Jo Lipsett, and Jenna-Louise Coleman (last seen playing bisexual journalist Jasmine in Emmerdale) as troubled pupil Lindsay James.
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Post by fenris on Mar 31, 2010 19:43:48 GMT
The new series of Waterloo Road starts on BBC1 next Wednesday (07/04/10) at 20:00.
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Post by fenris on Aug 29, 2010 12:39:54 GMT
The new series of Waterloo Road - extended to twenty episodes - begins on BBC1 at 20:00 next Wednesday (01/09/10), with the second episode following the next day (02/09/10). As head teacher Rachel Mason (played by Eva Pope) was hastily and very unconvincingly written out in the closing seconds of the previous series, Amanda Burton joins the show as new head Karen Fisher.
Can't say I'm a fan of Burton - she has the knack of making every character she plays seem condescending, self-important and extremely unlikeable (in my opinion, Silent Witness only became watchable after she left).
Another new cast-member is former Coronation Street child actress turned teenage lads' mag pin-up Tina O'Brien.
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Post by fenris on Jan 26, 2011 20:17:00 GMT
Following a mid-season break (British TV is getting more American every year) Waterloo Road returns to BBC1 at 20:00 on 02/02/11.
Trying to extend his 15 minutes of fame, Britain's Got Talent 2008 winner George Sampson joins the cast as a 'troubled pupil' (aren't they all?) called Kyle Stack.
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Post by fenris on Sept 9, 2011 14:36:43 GMT
Watching various character actors move from one long-running British TV drama to another is reminiscent of Premier League footballers being transferred between clubs. Case in point: Waterloo Road returns for it's latest series on BBC1 next Wednesday (14/09/11) at 19:30, and amongst the new additions to the regular cast are ex-The Bill star Alex Walkinshaw and former Holby City resident Jaye Jacobs.
Other good news - at least as far as I'm concerned - is that Amanda Burton's head teacher has been written out between seasons. I'm not a fan of Burton, due to the fact that she makes every character she plays come across as smug, self-righteous and extremely unlikeable.
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