Waterloo Roadis aBritishtelevision drama series set in a Scottish comprehensive school of the same name that was first broadcast onBBC Oneon 9 March 2006.

The first series contained eight episodes and ended on 27 April 2006. The show was subsequently commissioned for a second series consisting of twelve episodes.[2]The second series began on 18 January 2007 and ended on 26 April 2007. A third series was commissioned, consisting of twenty episodes, premiering on 11 October 2007 and ending on 13 March 2008. The show's fourth series contained twenty episodes and aired from 7 January 2009 to 20 May 2009.[3]Waterloo Roadcame under the threat of being axed following the show's fourth series due to the planned demolishing of the show's location at the time[4]; however, these plans did not go ahead until after the seventh series[5]and the show was commissioned for two additional series each consisting of twenty episodes.[6]The fifth series started on 28 October 2009 and aired its finale on 15 July 2010. The sixth series ran from 1 September 2010 to 6 April 2011. A seventh series was commissioned in April 2010 and was later expanded to thirty episodes, which began airing on 4 May 2011 and ended on 25 April 2012.[7]Following the seventh series, the show was commissioned for a further fifty episodes to air over two series and relocated to its current setting ofGreenock Academyin Scotland after the eventual demolition of the previous location inRochdale.[5]At its new location,Waterloo Roadbecame anindependent schoolas opposed to it being acomprehensive schoolin the past seven series.[8][9][10]The eighth series ran for thirty episodes between 23 August 2012 and 4 July 2013. The schoolbenefactorleft Waterloo Road at the end of series eight and thus once more the school is a comprehensive. On 19 September 2013, a tenth series was commissioned.[11]It was announced on 2nd April 2014 that series 10 will be the final series of the show.[12]