Genre

BBC drama serial set in a failing comprehensive school

Synopsis

This topical drama series starring Lenny Henry as headteacher Ian George of an underachieving comprehensive school updated the education drama for the 90s. Hope and Glory New Labour's zeal for league tables, 'naming and shaming and 'superheads' was pitted against the grinding realities of chronic underfunding, demoralised staff and disaffected pupils. Though criticised by some for its heavy-handed melodrama and sentimentality, the series was popular with audiences (three series were broadcast between 1999 and 2000) (BFI)

JJ Feild role

JJ plays Dylan Ferguson, an A level (sixth form) student newly arrived in Hope Park Comprehensive. Dylan, through helping his English teacher with her school book week project, becomes very close to her and falls in love with disastrous consequences.

Release  dates

UK: 11 October 2000 (Season 3, Episode 3)

Now available on DVD

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