Channel 5 hires new Teacher
Channel 5 has ordered a second season of its 2022 drama The Teacher, featuring a different story and a new cast led by Kara Tointon, Will Mellor and Emmett J Scanlan.
The Teacher II follows the story of Dani (Tointon), a teacher who loves her job. She’s a real mentor and inspiration to her students, but what she lacks is a properly functioning marriage with real intimacy and mutual desire.
This leads her into an impulsive affair with a fellow colleague that at first answers all her needs, but soon spirals out of control. When a pupil goes missing on a school trip, Dani rightly blames herself for being too easily distracted. When things start to take a sinister turn she is forced to lie, and quickly finds her life falling to pieces. She risks everything to right the wrongs that she has, in part, been responsible for.
Mellor will play Jimmy and Scanlan is Tim.
Michael Crompton (The Catch) will pen the series with Rebecca Wojciechowski (Silent Witness). Dominic Leclerc (The A Word) will direct.
The four-part drama, produced by Clapperboard, will be executive produced by rachel Gesua (The Catch), Suzi McIntosh (Silent Witness) and Mike Benson.
Emma Foley and Tamryn Reinecke (It Is In Us All) are producers for Pale Rebel Productions. The Teacher II is produced in association with Newen Connect, who will distribute the series internationally.
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