24 minSeason 5 • Episode 10
LatestOn the the day of the leavers ball, Johnny decides to quit his audition after having a crisis of confidence - though Rashid is determined to change his mind. Fizza struggles to cope after her father is hospitalised, while Martin's head is on the block at the school governors' meeting, but Marina has a plan to help.
A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community
Acting
Jo Joyner's headteacher—exhausted, fierce, utterly real
Writing
Ayub Khan-Din's dialogue crackles with authentic Northern-Asian wit
Production
Yorkshire locations that feel lived-in, not postcard-pretty
Creators
Malcolm Campbell, Ayub Khan-Din, Kevin Erlis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in Halifax using real local students as extras, grounding the fiction in authentic Northern mill town texture.
The Nasreen coming-out storyline was groundbreaking for British TV—rarely had a Muslim teen's queer journey been center stage so explicitly.
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