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Waterloo Road on the move

Staff move to Scotland (August 2011)

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DJ Dave
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Waterloo Road is leaving its home of Rochdale and will begin filming in Scotland from next year, it has been announced.

The popular school drama will make the move next April as part of the BBC's aim to produce more programming in Scotland. The first series to be set in the show's new location will air in September 2012.

Waterloo Road fans have already seen ten episodes of the programme's seventh series, with another ten due to air from September. A further set of ten instalments will be filmed in the autumn for broadcast after Christmas, and these will be the last to be shot in Rochdale.

It is understood that viewers will see an "explosive" storyline air in early 2012 resulting in a group of existing teachers and pupils setting up a new independent school in Scotland, which will also use the Waterloo Road name.

Eileen Gallagher, chief executive of the show's Glasgow-based production company Shed, commented: "Waterloo Road has had an incredibly happy six years in Rochdale working with one of the best TV crews in the country. But now we have outgrown our present site and we couldn't resist the BBC offer to take the show to Scotland."

BBC Drama executive Ben Stephenson added: "As part of our ongoing commitment to establishing a drama base in Scotland, I asked Shed whether they would be interested in re-locating future series of Waterloo Road to their home country. While sad to leave Rochdale, they immediately saw the potential of the new stories they could tell, as well as being excited about putting down roots in their native Scotland.

"I am sure fans will love what Shed have planned - it will remain the show our audience love. Alongside River City, the arrival of Waterloo Road establishes Scotland as a home of mass drama production and I am excited about the many new Scottish developments coming down the track.

"I would like to pay tribute to Rochdale and the local community who have taken the hit series to their hearts over the past seven years and saw it triumph at this year's National TV Awards to win 'Most Popular Drama'."


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s24/waterloo-road/news/a336575/waterloo-road-to-move-from-rochdale-to-scotland.html

Sounds daft to me, why do they have to come up with a silly story saying half of them moved up to Scotland
JO
Jon
DJ Dave posted:

It is understood that viewers will see an "explosive" storyline air in early 2012 resulting in a group of existing teachers and pupils setting up a new independent school in Scotland, which will also use the Waterloo Road name.

That's an absolute joke if true. It's one thing to move production to Scotland and keeping the same setting and Northern based actors.

I'm fed up of the BBC robbing certain areas of the UK of production just to move stuff too it's it's symbolic triangle of regionalness of Salford, Glasgow and Cardiff.

It's really has gone beyond a joke now.
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A former member
Jon Wells posted:
DJ Dave posted:

It is understood that viewers will see an "explosive" storyline air in early 2012 resulting in a group of existing teachers and pupils setting up a new independent school in Scotland, which will also use the Waterloo Road name.

That's an absolute joke if true.


I have to agree, BBC seems to be being a joke for scotland

Why cant there start proper NEW drama from scratch? l
JO
Joe
This could well spell the end for this show - which would be a shame - but it sounds quite ridiculous, and as if far too many of the current cast could leave at once.
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A former member
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It is understood that viewers will see an "explosive" storyline air in early 2012 resulting in a group of existing teachers and pupils setting up a new independent school in Scotland, which will also use the Waterloo Road name.


My mate just ask WHY would the teachers take the pupils with them? why would the pupils move! Razz
DJ
DJ Dave
Best quote so far I have seen, have the BBC forgot about Media City? Laughing
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Mike W
Jon Wells posted:
DJ Dave posted:

It is understood that viewers will see an "explosive" storyline air in early 2012 resulting in a group of existing teachers and pupils setting up a new independent school in Scotland, which will also use the Waterloo Road name.

That's an absolute joke if true. It's one thing to move production to Scotland and keeping the same setting and Northern based actors.

I'm fed up of the BBC robbing certain areas of the UK of production just to move stuff too it's it's symbolic triangle of regionalness of Salford, Glasgow and Cardiff.

It's really has gone beyond a joke now.


100% with you on this, Jon.

They cite regionalism/under-representation, was it just me or is the UK so much more than Cardiff, Salford, Glasgow and London? Did I imagine the rest of the country.

What next? MediaCounty UK in Scotland? Because a city doesn't quite cut it for them...
JO
Jon
DJ Dave posted:
Best quote so far I have seen, have the BBC forgot about Media City? Laughing


Wasn't there talk of EastEnders moving to Media City a few months back? I think that was The Daily Star though.

You can imagine a storyline of the Square being destroyed, by terrorists and the residents by a plot of land in Manchester to recreate it.

This reminds me of when Grange Hill suddenly moved to Liverpool. Rolling Eyes
JO
Jon
Mike W posted:


100% with you on this, Jon.

They cite regionalism/under-representation, was it just me or is the UK so much more than Cardiff, Salford, Glasgow and London? Did I imagine the rest of the country.

What next? MediaCounty UK in Scotland? Because a city doesn't quite cut it for them...


What annoys me is they've moved production away from areas like Bristol and Birmingham. Radio 5 Live's Saturday and Sunday 10pm show was always from Birmingham, but was the first show to move to Manchester and Radio 2 moved all of it's overnight programming from Birmingham to London. What? you're banging on about 5 Live's move to Salford and how you're making everything less London centric and you're moving stuff out of a perfectly equipped Mailbox back to the capital, it makes no sense!

Being Human, had a great little location in the Totterdown area of Bristol but against the wishes of the writer the show was moved to Wales and they were required to write it into the story. And of course Casualty has been taken away from Bristol to Cardiff.

I'd put money on Doctors being moved elsewhere from Birmingham in the next three years.

And as I've said before a show coming from Manchester will make you feel will make you feel no more represented than one from London if you live in Plymouth.
Last edited by Jon on 23 August 2011 6:30pm - 2 times in total
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Thomas
Surely the entire idea of Waterloo Road was to create a school drama, in a depressed area of the north of England, based in a school called Waterloo Road?
It's like a dodgy spin-off gone wrong, in my mind.
JO
Jon
Thomas posted:
Surely the entire idea of Waterloo Road was to create a school drama, in a depressed area of the north of England, based in a school called Waterloo Road?
It's like a dodgy spin-off gone wrong, in my mind.

But that's the thing if it was just a dodgy spin-off it wouldn't be so bad, it's not a spin-off though it's the actual original show. I don't actually think that story will happen, well if there is any sense it won't.
Last edited by Jon on 23 August 2011 8:15pm
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Andrew Founding member
A question, when Grange Hill moved to Liverpool, did the setting actually move to Liverpool or was it still a London school that happened to be full of scousers?

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