Alfie Corbett

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.

The show is about a failing school basketball team and the arrival of tall, gaffe-prone but unstoppable Aoife O'Neill. It's a show about determination, finding your tribe, and being true to yourself. Following Aoife and her family as they move to a new area and a new school. She sees this as an opportunity to change her life. Aoife soon discovers that the only place she really fits in is the school basketball team - only they're terrible. Can she turn them around?