About time. But there's still another 20 episodes left. 10 in Autumn 2014 and 10 in Spring 2015.

"...end of it's lifecycle". It certainly sounds like a BBC statement.

incredibly proud is another.

Do they have a special app to generate these phrases I wonder?

Feel almost sad about Waterloo Road. Sure it's absolutely awful and deserves to go as the numbers suck, but it's been around for a long time and was a guilty pleasure of mine for a while. Plus I think it's done a lot of good for up and coming actors and crew members. 200 episodes (which is what it will end up with) is a good run though.

On another note, Radio Times has the provisional schedules for Saturday 12th April:

BBC1
17:15 - Shrek The Third
18:40 - BBC News
19:00 - Pointless Celebrities
19:50 - In It To Win It
20:40 - Casualty
21:30 - The Guess List
22:10 - BBC News

ITV
16:30 - Live FA Cup Semi Final
19:15 - Britain's Got Talent
20:30 - Amazing Greys
21:30 - Law & Order UK (R)
22:30 - The Americans

BBC1 looking a bit thin there to be honest.

YES! Waterloo Road is gone! Ratings for a primetime drama were pants! Good riddance!

BBC should switch The Guess List and Casualty imo. They should've also tried to meet the 8:30pm junction to try and grab viewers after BGT.

The Guess List seems out of place at half nine.

But just because it's factual it doesn't mean that it's weak, does it? Yes, we'd all like scripted stuff at 9pm but there's always been factual in primetime on both channels and it's not like Monkey Planet has been knocked off in five minutes - it's a prestige series in the grand tradition of BBC natural history which has obviously been many months, maybe years in development. Just because it's not a drama, doesn't meant it's not worth showing at 9pm. The Treasure Hunters maybe less so, but it's not like BBC1 is the only channel that does that. ITV are showing an Alright on the Night repeat at 9pm.


Maybe, but then they're not the channel with a narrative repeat in there. Hmm, not sure at all about The Guess List's slot there, I suppose it misses ITV's biggest show and it's in the easiest slot it can possibly get, but I don't like the idea of it being post-watershed when surely they should be finding as much pre-watershed fare as they should.

self-destructive

Dear God! Another 20 weeks stinking out primetime to go.

The "move" killed it, that and the 40 year old teenagers.

Waterloo Road hit self destruct when they moved to Scotland. The ratings are shit. If they want to keep it to get young people turn it into a half hour soap twice a week on BBC2. Gives BBC2 new programming and frees up primetime on BBC1.

Waterloo Road was a pension for ex soap actors. It was VERY lucky to last as long as it did!

......Or they move it elsewhere.

You seem to hate WR with a passion cylon Were you on the Manchester crew or something

I agree.

Terrible decision to move it to Scotland.

Just shows how much of TV management know sod all about TV.

Three game shows in one evening on BBC One, is that a first?

I hate Waterloo Road because I have seen better dramas axed with similar ratings. Waterloo Road was getting less ratings than factual about Poundland. Waterloo Road isn't Panorama and wasn't facing Corrie and yet its ratings were still awful. Populist drama in primetime shouldn't be in primetime with such bad ratings.

Waterloo Road has led a charmed life for too long.

True and you can bet the politics with the Scottish move saved it for a long time.

Continuing drama has become a wasteland. Time for ITV to start up The Bill again I say

Overnights are delayed.

The move to Scotland was puzzling because it was a BBC Scotland production when it was filmed in Rochdale - I assume it had something to do with quotas for production outside the M25.

Waterloo Road went to Scotland to fill a quota of having more programming from the regions. Just like Casualty moved to Wales for the new drama village, which effed up the people in Bristol who made it from day one.

What the BBC should have done was commission more from Scotland instead of moving Waterloo Road. The move ended up killing it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-14629725

Bristol didn't make Casualty ''from day one'' - it started in London at TVC.
It was clearly a ludicrous concept that an entire school could be moved to Scotland and into a completely different educational system (which the writers never really seemed to recognise).Rumours abound that Holby is due to move to Cardiff so that will bump up the regional quota (is there a quota for programmes made in London ?)

You're right. But Casualty was filmed in Bristol for 25 years and losing it to Wales was a massive losses to the area. Onscreen the move hasn't hurt it, but the same can't be said for Waterloo Road. It just changed the tone of the programme with a new school in a new setting. Ruined credibility.

The good thing is though the Guest List is only against a Law & Order repeat.

Good riddance regarding Waterloo Road. No place in the BBC1 schedules for a drama rating so consistently low. Cannot keep giving Itv opportunities to take advantage of its low figures. Hopefully the money saved will be invested in even more quality bbc1 drama.

I would like to see the BBC move Casualty to an 8pm weekday slot. It would benefit the show more. While its ratings for Saturday are decent I think it would excel more if broadcast at 8pm on a Thursday. I realise it would have competition from Emmerdale but Casualty has always managed to hold its own against X Factor so Emmerdale should be no real trouble.