Waterloo Road (series 3)

The third series of the British school drama series ***Waterloo Road*** was shown on BBC One, It was shown from 11 October 2007 to 13 March 2008..

## The series 
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at Waterloo Road, a failing comprehensive school.

The school has a lot of problems such as death, running away from home, prostitution, child grooming, HIV/AIDS, child abuse, homosexuality, Asperger syndrome, deportation, activism, blackmail, plagiarism and assault.

## Cast and characters
### Staff
* Jason Merrells as Jack Rimmer; headteacher (7 episodes)
* Neil Morrissey as Eddie Lawson; Deputy headteacher and Maths teacher (20 episodes)
* Jason Done as Tom Clarkson; Head of Pastoral Care and English teacher (20 episodes)
* Philip Martin Brown as Grantly Budgen; Head of English (20 episodes)
* Christine Tremarco as Davina Shackleton; Teaching Assistant (19 episodes)
* Shabana Bakhsh as Jasmine Koreshi; English teacher (19 episodes)
* Chris Geere as Matt Wilding; Head of Music and Drama (18 episodes)
* Denise Welch as Steph Haydock;  Head of French (18 episodes)
* Jacqueline Kington as Bridget Morley; School secretary (16 episodes)
* Eva Pope as Rachel Mason; Jack’s replacement as headteacher (14 episodes)
* Kay Purcell as Candice Smilie; Senior Canteen Assistant (9 episodes)
* Craig Fitzpatrick as Lewis Seddon; Canteen Assistant (8 episodes)

### Pupils
* Lauren Drummond as Mika Grainger (20 episodes)
* Katie Griffiths as Chlo Grainger (19 episodes)
* Tachia Newall as Bolton Smilie (19 episodes)
* Tom Payne as Brett Aspinall (17 episodes)
* Lauren Thomas as Aleesha Dillon (17 episodes)
* Lucy Dixon as Danielle Harker (17 episodes)
* Adam Thomas as Donte Charles (16 episodes)
* Chelsee Healey as Janeece Bryant (16 episodes)
* Ellie Paskell as Maxine Barlow (16 episodes)
* Jessica Baglow as Karla Bentham (11 episodes)
* Zeriozha Burtt-Skeete as Celine Dixon (9 episodes) 
* Thomas Milner as Paul Langley (8 episodes)
* Zaraah Abrahams as Michaela White (4 episodes)

### Others
#### Recurring
* Silas Carson as Stuart Hordley; Investor and Rachel's blackmailer (9 episodes)
* Chris Finch as Colin Scott; Matt's fiancé (5 episodes)
* Robert Angell as Nigel Hinchcliffe; Chair of Governors (4 episodes)
* Joel Goonan as Dominic Hammond; Pupil (4 episodes)
* Naveed Choudhry as Shahid Kapoor; Pupil (3 episodes)
* Maria Lennon as Ria Cheetham; School governor (3 episodes)
* Lorraine Cheshire as Fleur Budgen; Grantly's wife (2 episodes)
* James Rawlings as Wilson Bingham; Supply teacher (2 episodes)
* Fiona Wade as Sameen Azizi; Pupil (2 episodes)
* Sean Wilson as Darren Briggs, Sr.; Darren's father (2 episodes)
* Lee Worswick as Darren Briggs, Jr.; Pupil (2 episodes)

#### Guest
* Tara Berwin as Sally Froggart; Pupil (1 episode)
* Antony Edridge as Claude Legard; Investor (1 episode)
* Sally Ann Matthews as Alison Lawson; Eddie's ex-wife (1 episode)
* Steve Money as Clarence Charles; Donte's father (1 episode)
* James Varley as Ben McNulty; Pupil (1 episode)

## Episodes

## DVD release
Three different box sets of the third series were released. The first ten episodes were released on 2 March 2009, episodes 11–20 were released on 11 May 2009. All twenty episodes were later released together as a complete six-disc set on 24 May 2009. It has episodes such as: Autumn Term Scrap Book, Pupil Reports, Teacher Evaluation and a Spring Term Scrap Book. All box sets for the third series were released with a "12" British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) certificate (meaning people under the age of 12 years shouldn't watch it).

## References