Waterloo Road (series 8)

The eigth series of the British school drama series ***Waterloo Road*** was shown on BBC One, It was shown from 23 August 2012 to 4 July 2013.

It is the first series to be set at the old Greenock Academy building in Greenock, Scotland.

## 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 alcoholism, pyromania, teenage pregnancy, fostering, exorcism, coercive control, freeganism, adoption, pole-dancing, rape, burn injury, terminal illness, workplace bullying, self-harming, deafness, activism, blackmail, gender identity disorder, euthanasia, alcoholic hepatitis, assault, kidney failure, kidney donation and post-traumatic stress disorder.

## Cast and characters
### Staff
* Alec Newman as Michael Byrne; headteacher (28 episodes)
* Laurie Brett as Christine Mulgrew; Head of English and Acting headteacher (30 episodes)
* Jason Done as Tom Clarkson; Deputy headteacher and English teacher (30 episodes)
* Georgie Glen as Audrey McFall; Head of History (29 episodes)
* Daniela Denby-Ashe as Lorraine Donnegan; School benefactor (27 episodes)
* Melanie Hill as Maggie Budgen; Home Economics teacher, Senior Canteen Assistant and Housemistress (27 episodes)
* Philip Martin Brown as Grantly Budgen; English teacher and Housemaster (24 episodes)
* Victoria Bush as Sonya Donnegan; School secretary (22 episodes)
* Mark Benton as Daniel "Chalky" Chalk; Head of Mathematics (20 episodes)
* Heather Peace as Nikki Boston; Deputy Headteacher, English teacher and Head of Pupil Referral Unit (20 episodes)
* Jaye Jacobs as Sian Diamond; Deputy Headteacher and Head of Science (19 episodes)
* Richie Campbell as Ndale Kayuni; School handyman (7 episodes)
* Chelsee Healey as Janeece Bryant; School secretary (6 episodes)
* Daniela Nardini as Esther Fairclough; Acting Head of Science (4 episodes)
* Angus Deayton as George Windsor; Head of Modern Foreign Languages (3 episodes)
* Richard Mylan as Simon Lowsley; Deputy Headteacher and English teacher (2 episodes)

### Pupils
* Shane O'Meara as Connor Mulgrew (30 episodes)
* Kirstie Steele as Imogen Stewart (30 episodes)
* Kane Tomlinson-Weaver as Harley Taylor (30 episodes)
* Rebecca Craven as Rhiannon Salt (28 episodes)
* Marlene Madenge as Lula Tsibi (26 episodes)
* Tommy Lawrence Knight as Kevin Chalk (23 episodes)
* Carl Au as Barry Barry (20 episodes)
* Brogan Ellis as Kacey Barry (20 episodes)
* Abby Mavers as Dynasty Barry (20 episodes)
* Katie McGlynn as Jodie "Scout" Allen (20 episodes)
* Adiza Shardow as Liberty Gordon (20 episodes)
* Taylor Rhys as Jack McAllister (19 episodes)
* Paige Meade as Jade Fleming (18 episodes)
* Kaya Moore as Phoenix Taylor (12 episodes)
* Naveed Choudhry as Tariq Siddiqui (8 episodes)
* Benjamin Gur as Angus "Gus" Hancock (8 episodes)
* William Rush as Josh Stevenson (7 episodes)
* Georgia Henshaw as Madi Diamond (6 episodes)

### Others
#### Recurring
* Zöe Lucker as Carol Barry; Mother of the Barry children (8 episodes)
* Ron Donachie as Billy Byrne; Michael's terminally ill father (7 episodes)
* Alex Norton as Gerard Findlay; Headteacher of Havelock High (5 episodes)
* Jody Latham as Steve-O Malone; Dynasty's boyfriend (4 episodes)
* Jenny Ryan as Sally Stewart; Imogen's mother (3 episodes)
* Alisa Anderson as Zoe Foster; Pupil (2 episodes)
* Leyla Ogulyaymis as Cheryl Bryant; Janeece's young daughter (2 episodes)
* Lisa Riley as Tina Allen; Scout's mother (2 episodes)
* Shaun Prendergast as Robert Bain; Director of the Department for Education (2 episodes)

#### Guest
* Mhairi Anderson as Morag Murray; Pupil (1 episode)
* Fraser Ayres as Duncan Kilty; Owner of a pole-dancing bar (1 episode)
* Patrick Baladi as Julian Noble; Television presenter for *Noble Thoughts* (1 episode)
* James Daffern as Ray Keats; Head of Lorraine's call centre and careers advisor (1 episode)
* James Doherty as Martin Johnson; School governor (1 episode)
* Nicola Duffett as Daisy Skelton; Kevin's estranged mother (1 episode)
* Niall Greig Fulton as Kai Murray; Morag and Ewan's father (1 episode)
* Jan Goodman as Maureen Donnegan; Lorraine and Sonya's mother (1 episode)
* Clare Grogan as Sandra Gordon; Liberty's mother (1 episode)
* Bill Fellows as Trevor Croft; Maggie's husband (1 episode)
* Max Fowler as Drew Kelly; Jade's abusive boyfriend (1 episode)
* Gaynor Howe as Sarah Winters; Adoptive mother of Jade's unborn baby (1 episode)
* Emmanuel Ighodaro as Kaz Winters; Adoptive father of Jade's unborn baby (1 episode)
* Raji James as Usman Haq; Owner of Prince of Spices fast food (1 episode)
* Cornell S John as Lionel Tsibi; Lula's uncle (1 episode)
* Daniel Kerr as Ewan Murray; Pupil (1 episode)
* Pollyanna McIntosh as Olivia McAllister; Jack's mother (1 episode)
* Anna-Maria Nabirye as Cecile Tsibi; Lula's mother (1 episode)
* Tachia Newall as Bolton Smilie; Ex-pupil and Army officer (1 episode)
* Derek Riddell as Joe Mulgrew; Christine's ex-husband (1 episode)
* George Sampson as Kyle Stack; Pupil (1 episode)
* Sam Lucas Smith as Fergal Doherty; Pupil (1 episode)
* John Kay Steel as Dr. Fielding Granger; Grantly's consultant (1 episode)
* Elizabeth Tan as Princess Windsor; George's wife (1 episode)
* Vishal Thakur as Nasir Haq; Pupil (1 episode)
* John Thomson as Nelson Smith; Phoenix and Harley's father (1 episode)
* Josie Walker as Theresa Doherty; Fergal's mother (1 episode)

## Episodes

## DVD release
The Autumn Term (episodes 1–10) was released on 4 February 2013. The Spring Term (episodes 11–20) was released on 3 June 2013. The Summer Term (episodes 21–30) was released on 7 October 2013. The Complete Series Eight was released on 15 September 2014.

## References