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DVDfever.co.uk – Press release: Waterloo Road Series 3 Autumn Term on DVD
Acorn Media
Posted: January 23rd, 2009.
ACORN MEDIA is delighted to announce the DVD release of the third series of the hugely popular and innovative BBC drama series Waterloo Road. Based in a troubled Rochdale comprehensive school it focuses on the trials and tribulations of the staff and students. Waterloo Road is hard-hitting drama that never shies away from controversial issues such as teenage marriage, infidelity, HIV and divorce.
Commissioned for the BBC in 2006, Waterloo Road?s original portrayal of the intertwining lives of staff and students and the effect that they have on each other delighted and gripped TV audiences. Series Three continues this groundbreaking tradition while bringing new faces to the staff room. Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly, Up ?n? Under) joins the staff as Deputy Headteacher Eddie Lawson, along with Eva Pope (Coronation Street, Cold Feet) as Headteacher, Rachel Mason and Shabana Bakhsh (Ae Fond Kiss, Doctors) and Chris Geere (Blood And Chocolate, Wondrous Oblivion), are new? teachers. With all this new blood, Series Three, Autumn Term can only go from strength to strength and will be available on DVD on 2 March 2009.
The series begins following the tragic murder of popular teacher Izzie Redpath (Jill Halfpenny ? EastEnders, Coronation Street) and with the whole school reeling, it falls to Lawson and hardman original Headteacher Jack Rimmer (Jason Merrells ? Clocking Off, Cutting It) to comfort and console students and teachers alike.
But Waterloo Road is never quiet for long, with unruly pupils, staff room and playground romances, Jack?s creative accounting and a new Headteacher with a dark past to hide, school days are never dull. Pulling in excess of 6 million viewers per episode, Waterloo Road is an engaging and engrossing series, which will be back on BBC One for a fourth series in January 2009.
Starring a cast of established British actors including: Denise Welch (Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, Coronation Street), Jason Done (Band of Brothers, Where The Heart Is), Philip Martin Brown (Juliet Bravo, Foyle?s War) as well as a wealth of talented young stars including Tom Payne (Skins, He Kills Coppers) and Katie Griffiths (Coming Down The Mountain, Casualty) Waterloo Road is British drama at its best and most real.
Presented as a stunning three-disc box set Waterloo Road Series 3 Autumn Term pushes the boundaries of the conventional drama series, with the tension and excitement building through 10 episodes to fever pitch.
The DVD is out on March 2nd 2009, it runs for 572 mins and retails for £24.99 on DVD,but is currently on Amazon at the link above for £18.29.
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