The comedian will be playing media studies teacher Darius Donovan, while Christine Bottomley will be joining as Sam Drake, the daughter of head teacher Dame Stella Drake (Lindsey Coulson). "With another tragedy on the horizon, the choices of some of Waterloo Road’s own will have some life-changing consequences." The first episode of Waterloo Road will air at 9pm on BBC One on Tuesday, September 23, with the second episode following later that same night at 10.40pm. That pattern is repeated for the following Tuesday (September 30), but no other timings are listed at the time of writing. Alternatively, all episodes are available to watch on BBC iPlayer right now.