Teachers - C4 Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Teachers. Image shows from L to R: Jenny Page (Nina Sosanya), Kurt McKenna (Navin Chowdhry), Simon Casey (Andrew Lincoln), Susan Gately (Raquel Cassidy), Brian Steadman (Adrian Bower). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

Genre

Comedy Drama

Broadcast

2001 - 2004

Channel

Channel 4

Episodes

40 (4 series)

Creator

Tim Loane

Stars

Andrew Lincoln, Raquel Cassidy, Nina Sosanya, Navin Chowdhry, Adrian Bower, Gillian Bevan, Lloyd McGuire, Ursula Holden Gill and more

Director

Susanna White

Producers

Rhonda Smith, Tim Bradley, Jane Fallon, Greg Brenman, Matthew Patnick and Dean Sipling

Company

Comprising of forty, fifty minute episodes, Teachers creates a balance between surreal comedy and realistic drama. Although one might expect teachers to hold more maturity and decency than students, Teachers sets out to prove this wrong.

Paranoia, neuroticism, sexual inadequacies and an innate inability to quit smoking are just a few of the problems which haunt the staff who work at Summerdown School.

For the first two series, the programme focuses on the neurotic Simon Casey, the beautiful ice queen Jenny Page and the ever sensible best friend Susan Gately; however, despite the departure of these characters, Teachers continued to run for a further two series.

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Additional details

Production

Studio

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Teachers was released separately and was an iconic part of the show; the title music was 'The Boy with the Arab Strap' by Belle and Sebastian. This was rounded up by music from the likes of Feeder, The Hives, Starsailor, Mercury Rev, Athlete, Supergrass, I Am Kloot and Ash.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Wednesday 21st March 2001 at 9pm on Channel 4

Most recent repeats

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