Hope and Glory (TV series)
Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure. It starred Lenny Henry as maverick "Superhead" Ian George, enlisted to turn around the school's fortunes.
| Hope and Glory | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Lucy Gannon |
| Directed by | Juliet May and others |
| Starring | Lenny Henry Amanda Redman Clive Russell Gillian Kearney |
| Theme music composer | Nick Bicât |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Mal Young and Lucy Gannon |
| Producer | Nicolas Brown |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 22 June 1999 – 5 November 2000 |
| Related | |
| Waterloo Road | |
It was created by Lucy Gannon, who had previously created Soldier Soldier, and was inspired by a real head teacher named William Atkinson, who had turned around a secondary school in London which had been placed into special measures.
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