Teachers (British TV series)

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Teachers
Created by	Tim Loane
Starring	Andrew Lincoln Adrian Bower Raquel Cassidy Navin Chowdhry Nina Sosanya Gillian Bevan Ursula Holden-Gill Lloyd McGuire Ellen Thomas Tamzin Malleson James Lance Vicky Hall Lee Williams Mathew Horne James Corden
Ending theme	The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Jane Fallon
Running time	45–50 minutes
Production company	Tiger Aspect Productions
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	21 March 2001 (2001-03-21) – 21 December 2004 (2004-12-21)
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Teachers is a British television comedy-drama series, created by Tim Loane and originally shown on Channel 4. The series follows a group of secondary school teachers in their daily lives.^[1]

In the first series, probationary teacher Simon Casey (Andrew Lincoln) is the protagonist; later series have an ensemble cast. The cast changes dramatically, with few original characters remaining by the fourth series. While some of these disappearances are explained, others are not.

The first three series are set in the fictional Summerdown Comprehensive, which merges with another school in the fourth series to form Wattkins School. The first three series were filmed at the former Merrywood School and the fourth was filmed at the former Lockleaze school in Bristol, England.

Teachers was nominated for six BAFTA awards between 2002 and 2004, and was nominated for Best Comedy Drama at the British Comedy Awards in 2003. In January 2005, after a muted reception to the fourth series, Channel 4 announced that Teachers would not continue for a fifth series. A short lived American version was aired in 2006.

Since mid-2020 the series has been available on UK and Australian Netflix. The series is also available on All 4 and PlutoTV streaming service.