Am I the only person, too, that thought that would NOT at all be what Kevin's mum would look like? How could SHE produce such a beautiful offspring like Kevin? :P

Because the father was gorgeous?

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New DVD set to be released on 16 September 2013, including 6 of the best Waterloo Road episodes:

 

1) 3.11 ... Waterloo Road's students take a school trip to prison

2) 4.08 ... Pupil Maxine discovers the truth about her lover, Earl

3) 4.11 ... Career's Day brings eye-catching glamour to school along with a very arresting copper

4) 5.01 ... Waterloo Road joins forces with John Fosters school for the welcome - and riot - of a lifetime

5) 5.19 ... While one teacher, Ruby, falls into a drug-induced breakdown, the others undertake a 'Calendar Girls' style calendar shoot

6) 7.07 ... Young Sambuca faces her final hours surrounded by friends and family

1) 3.11 ... Waterloo Road's students take a school trip to prison

2) 4.08 ... Pupil Maxine discovers the truth about her lover, Earl

4) 5.01 ... Waterloo Road joins forces with John Fosters school for the welcome - and riot - of a lifetime

6) 7.07 ... Young Sambuca faces her final hours surrounded by friends and family

Big yes to these, but where is Lorna's death episode and Izzy's death episode? :angry:

Big yes to these, but where is Lorna's death episode and Izzy's death episode? :angry:

IKR, they've missed so many good episodes, so I hope this is only 'volume 1', and that there are more to follow.

 

Namely: 2.10 (Lorna's death), 2.12 (Izzy's death), 3.20 (the fire), 5.20 (Rachel leaves Waterloo Road) - all such fab episodes, yet SNUBBED.

IKR, they've missed so many good episodes, so I hope this is only 'volume 1', and that there are more to follow.

 

Namely: 2.10 (Lorna's death), 2.12 (Izzy's death), 3.20 (the fire), 5.20 (Rachel leaves Waterloo Road) - all such fab episodes, yet SNUBBED.

Maybe they didn't want to draw too much attention to the unusually high death rate :P

Confirmed cast for series 9:

 

Phillip Martin Brown | Grantly Budgen

Kane Tomlinson-Weaver | Harley Taylor

Melanie Hill | Maggie Budgen

Heather Peace | Nikki Boston

Georgie Glen | Audrey McFall

Laurie Brett | Christine Mulgrew

Shane O'Meara | Connor Mulgrew

Rebecca Craven | Rhiannon Salt

Kirstie Steele | Imogen Stewart

Marlene Madenge | Lula Tsibi

Tommy Knight | Kevin Chalk

Victoria Bush | Sonya Donnegan

Carl Au | Barry Barry

Abby Mavers | Dynasty Barry

Brogan Ellis | Kacey Barry

Angus Deayton | George Windsor

Richard Mylan | Simon Lowsley

Elizabeth Tan | Princess Windsor

Mark Beswick | Darren Hughes

Caitlin Gillespie | Lisa Brown

Joe Slater | Lenny Brown

 

Only 20 episodes commissioned, too, which makes me think that this might be the last series, or the show starting to draw to a close, with series 10 possibly being 10 episodes only? Series 7 was originally only meant to be 10 episodes, and the finish of the show, before it relocated to Scotland, and was commissioned for 50 more episodes, so anything could happen really.

Well that was a FANTASTIC finale. Makes me really sad that series 8 is done and dusted now, it really has been such a brilliant start to the new show in Scotland, and I hope series 9 is just as brilliant! It probably had some of the most finely told stories in the show's history (apart from the Rachel Mason era), in regards to Kacey's identity issues, Sian's exit and the consequences, Christine's drinking problem, the Barry family's troubles, Connor's fire-starting, Connor and Imogen's wedding, Michael and Lorraine leaving, Grantly's kidney, and of course Tom dying. Such a well produced series, and I can't wait to get the final part of series 8 on DVD.

 

In this episode, though, Christine was just as fantastic as last week. She's such a powerful headteacher, even though she is so vulnerable at points (especially in the scene where she commemorated Tom in the assembly hall). Found myself tearing up so much to the scene where they all stood in the assembly hall, and Christine told them to remember Waterloo Road as the school that Tom put the children first in, it was honestly so sad to see the biggest character leave.

The death scene was perfectly executed, all of the directing and clever camera angles, the slow-motion and the reaction from everybody after it had happened. Christine is such a fantastic character, and the way she stayed with him. Grantly and Maggie, I feel so sorry for them both, so this must be how Grantly's bowing out (the lack of a kidney now). It was so nice to see Grantly back, too. The scene between him and Tom where Tom told him to get a grip was so powerful, and it was so sad. I honestly dread the episode where Grantly leaves, because there'll be no more originals left. </3

Simon's a really great deputy head, I can see myself really warming to him as deputy if he stays for the full duration of series 9, and he is some SERIOUS eye candy (although I don't like the way the scene with Barry and Kyle fighting in the IT suite was handled). Kyle's return was all a bit cringe on the whole, TBH. The scenes at the beginning with Rhiannon were dreadful, proving she is such a terrible actress. And the scene where he spoke about the book in the English classroom was just "eek!". Connor's another terrible actor, too. They need to get shot of him as soon as possible, so that the young cast isn't given such a bad name.

Kevin and Dynasty continue to be the best couple the show has ever had, and they are two of the best characters the show has at the moment. When Kevin pledged himself to get the massage from Dynasty, that was hilarious! :lol: True love, aww. <3 Lula was absolutely hilarious, too, though. She steals parts of the show every time with her witty one-liners, and just her mannerisms in general. Love it, hope she stays long into the show's future. Sad that this was Liberty's last episode, though. She is a fantastic character (even if she became a bit of an extra towards the end of series 8). Really loved her.

 

Roll on series 9, now! :D

I actually watched Waterloo Road for the first time tonight in an absolute age (and I was addicted to this program when it first started in 2006 :D ). I really wasn't expecting Tom to fall to his death though. Maybe I should've seen it coming after the whole promising to donate his kidney to Grantly in this episode (remember, I've not watched this for a long time).

 

It's interesting to note that Waterloo Road won its first ever National Television Award in 2011. I'd sort of got bored of the show by that point, think it was the 2009 or 2010 series when my interest in the show started to wane. Maybe after tonight I might well watch the 9th series although the first episode has to draw me in, otherwise I'll lose interest all over again.

 

Ha, I'm so fickle!!! :D

I was a little disappointed with Tom's exit but I suppose it bought a full circle of how he brought the headteacher down from the roof in the first ever episode.

 

Anyway, not sure if I will watch Series 9 which will most likely be the last. I thought Series 8 was quite poor overall.

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LOVED this series so much and I began watching when the new term started back in April or May. I think that the cringiest bit was Rhiannon singing - what the fuck was that about?! :lol:

Series 7 was originally only meant to be 10 episodes, and the finish of the show, before it relocated to Scotland, and was commissioned for 50 more episodes, so anything could happen really.

I definitely think that would be have been best as 7x11 was when the show began to really go downhill.

 

I was a little disappointed with Tom's exit but I suppose it bought a full circle of how he brought the headteacher down from the roof in the first ever episode.

Hmm, that's quite a good way of thinking about it!

 

Pretty underwhelming end episode but I guess that reflects the whole series. I've never seen someone die before but I think my reaction would show a bit more expression than the majority of the pupils and staff watching! Apart from Christine though, although she's always been the best thing about Waterloo Road during Series 8. I particularly liked the vodka and speech scenes with her at the end.

 

It would be nice if there was a funeral for Tom in series 9 and Chlo made a one-off return, but then again, they've done such things with Bolton and Josh this series which were disappointing to say the least.

It would be nice if there was a funeral for Tom in series 9 and Chlo made a one-off return, but then again, they've done such things with Bolton and Josh this series which were disappointing to say the least.

I doubt it'll even cross their mind to do something like that. They'll probably only do something like that for Grantly (except there's no characters to bring back for his exit, unless they've filmed an episode with Denise Welch which she's kept very hush-hush).

Well, rather a lot of the characters who were close to Tom ended up dead so they won't be back for his funeral :lol:

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I *won't* be buying that, or any of the Series 8 DVDs. :P I think I'll only go up to the first 10 episodes of Series 7, before the show nose dived!

I *won't* be buying that, or any of the Series 8 DVDs. :P I think I'll only go up to the first 10 episodes of Series 7, before the show nose dived!

Get them all, beyond 7.10, even if just for Jaye Jacobs. :kink:

Series 9 apparently begins on 22 August, according to a post on Official Waterloo Road's Facebook page, and they have also teased that one of the new pupils is "dramatic, outrageous and self-centred, and ready to cause chaos".

It's hard to get excited by news like that when that's pretty much the go to description of every new student at the school. Either that or they have a BIG SECRET.

Confirmed to be starting on 5 September, two weeks after originally was planned, running until 7 November.

 

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As the new run of episodes begins, the school is still in mourning for Tom - especially Kacey Barry (Brogan Ellis), who is struggling to cope without her teacher and mentor.

 

New faces at Waterloo Road will include teenage twins Lenny and Lisa Brown (Joe Slater and Caitlin Gillespie) and recently-qualified science teacher Sue Spark (Vanessa Hehir).

 

Lenny and Lisa immediately feature in a storyline with Audrey McFall (Georgie Glen) as she suspects they are being neglected at home, while Sue finds the reality of teaching much harder than she expected.

 

Elsewhere, fans will also be interested to see how Christine Mulgrew (Laurie Brett) is settling into her new role as head teacher, while deputy head Simon Lowsley (Richard Mylan) hides a secret which could affect his career and unsettle the staff.

I can't imagine the show is going to get better, so I just hope it can be similar to series 8 at least, which did have the occasional fantastic episode here and there. I wonder if they'll totally forget about Tom after episode 1 - like they did with Denzil.

 

I'm altering the title of the thread for the new series, much to the request of Calum!