Waterloo Road - Axed

One of the main problems is that Waterloo Road has lost its original focus and setting. The drama was based on a failing school on a rough estate, full of challenging students, located in the inner city. Well isn't it the complete opposite now? That is what made Waterloo Road what it was.

I have never known a school move 250 miles away from its original location and then suddenly become a boarding school, as well as keeping the same name. Why couldn't the BBC just find a new location within Rochdale or at least keep the same setting but in Scotland? The original location added to the focus of the programme and is at the heart of Waterloo Road.

Another big failing factor for me is that all of original cast have gone, and there are only two cast members left that are from Rochdale. It just feels that since the school moved it is a completely different school, with a new focus point. It should have been axed when they had to leave Rochdale and base it on a new school.

Over the past four years in particular, there has always been constant cast and character changes, which is not only unrealistic but adds to the lack of consistency and change. It just makes it harder to follow and to get used to as it changes all the time. For me I find this extremely silly. Could they not have kept some of the cast for at least a couple of series or more?

On a lighter note though, I would love it if they bought Denise Welch and Angela Griffin back for the final series. I always loved Miss Haydock and Miss Campbell. That way I think Waterloo Road would actually end on a high!

It's ridiculous the move to Scotland was ever allowed to happen, if they wanted a school drama set north of the border they should have axed Waterloo Road and replaced it with a new programme. If it was an issue of production quoters they should have filmed it in Scotland and kept the setting the same with a few Scottish characters thrown in.

The thing with Waterloo Road was the idea was so far fetched that all these occurrences could happen at the same institution but like all dramas all the single events were things that do happen from time to time in real life. I really don't imagine there was precedent for what happened to Waterloo Road happening in real life. So one of the characters might as well developed a set of wings and flown to the moon it was so ridiculous.

I have no problem with the national output of the BBC becoming more representative of the UK as a whole but scripted shows like Being Human and Waterloo Road shouldn't have had their creative freedom and identity compromised to achieve that aim.

The moving of Waterloo Road to Scotland is the sort of thing you'd have expected the fictional BBC to have come up with in W1A not the real organisation.

Yes moving to Scotland killed off the show. Plots were often far fetched but moving to Scotland was something else.

Changing from an inner city school to a privately funded school where half the pupils live in a boarding school type scenario, changed the whole premise of the show.

It should never have happened, if they had to move filming to Scotland, which im not even sure about, it shouldnt have been in the plot, I'm sure there are enough scruffy back streets in Glasgow that could have easily doubled up as Rochdale.

Trying to tie down the actors so half the teaching staff didn't change every year may also have helped. Starting every series with some continuity from the last one rather than starting a fresh each time, would have been good as well.

Can't say I ever liked it but yes, the Scotland thing was bizarre to say the least.