History
An eight-part first series was made in the second half of 2005 and aired in early 2006. The show was then recommissioned for a second series.
The second series finished airing on 26 April 2007. Series 3 began on 11 October 2007 on BBC One, except on BBC One Scotland, where the series began four days earlier. 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 (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 BBC One on Thursday, 13 March 2008, apart from Scotland (17 March 2008).
Series 4 began on BBC One on Wednesday, 7 January 2009, achieving on average 4–5 million viewers per episode. A fifth series began airing from 28 October 2009 on BBC One. The show's location at Hill Top Primary School was due to be demolished in 2009, with the ending of series 4 depicting its partial destruction, but this ultimately did not occur and series 5 to 7 retained the original location.
Following a Christmas and Easter break, Series 5 resumed on Wednesday, 7 April 2010. Due to the election coverage in early May 2010 on BBC One over-running, Waterloo Road was replaced for two weeks by Holby City. The series resumed once more on 26 May 2010, but was delayed once again due to the World Cup. The final two episodes aired on 14 and 15 July.
Filming of a sixth series began on 9 November 2009 and was completed on 7 May 2010. A seventh series was commissioned in April 2010 and was later expanded to thirty episodes, which began airing in May 2011. Fifty episodes to air over two series have been commissioned for the show's new location in Scotland, bringing the total number of episodes to 180.
For the first seven series, the set for Waterloo Road was the former Hill Top Primary School in Rochdale, which closed in 2003. This was demolished in the summer of 2012. From series 8, the series has been relocated to the former secondary school, Greenock Academy in Scotland, which closed in 2011.
Waterloo Road won "Most Popular Drama" at the 2011 National Television Awards.
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