Rope Ladder Fiction and Wall to Wall North land eighth and ninth series of Waterloo Road
BBC doubles down on Waterloo Road
The BBC has ordered two more series of Waterloo Road from Rope Ladder Fiction and Wall to Wall North. The eighth and ninth series since the Manchester-based show’s reboot in 2023 will air on BBC1 from September into next year. Lindsay Williams is the series producer, and Cameron Roach and Leane Klein are executive producers for Rope Ladder Fiction and Wall to Wall respectively. Gaynor Holmes and Jo McClellan commissioned the series.
Channel 4 unveils cast for comedy Schooled
Channel 4 has revealed the cast for its upcoming comedy Schooled, led by Cheaters alum Shiloh Coke as Kayleigh Clarke, a newly appointed Head of Year 10 with no formal teaching background. She will be joined by comedians Munya Chawawa and Judi Love, Michelle De Swarte (The Baby), Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton), Rebecca Humphries (The Crown), Alex Bhat (Gentleman Jack) and Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Black Mirror). Afolabi Kuti exec produces and his indie Broedmachine is co-producing it with Group M Motion Entertainment.
BBC apologises over Thought For the Day segment
The BBC has apologised after theologian Dr Krish Kandiah accused shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick of xenophobia during Radio 4’s Thought for the Day segment on Wednesday. Dr Kandiah was discussing an article in which Jenrick said: “I certainly don’t want my children to share a neighbourhood with men from backward countries who broke into Britain illegally and about whom you know next to nothing.” Kandiah said: “The technical name for this is xenophobia.” The episode of the programme was temporarily taken down from BBC Sounds while three sentences were edited out. A BBC Spokesperson said that while DR Kandiah’s message was “broadly in line with expectations of Thought for the Day, some of the language it used went beyond that and we apologise for its inclusion.”
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