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Summerhill (TV series)

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Directed by
  
Jon East

Original language(s)
  
English

Running time
  
30 minutes

Final episode date
  
29 January 2008

Director
  
Jon East

Language
  
English

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
4

First episode date
  
21 January 2008

Number of episodes
  
4

Written by
  
Alison Hume

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Production company(s)
  
Genre
  
Children's television series

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Summerhill is a British children's television drama about the famously radical Summerhill School. written by Alison Hume and directed by Jon East. It was first broadcast on the CBBC Channel in January 2008 and was subsequently nominated for three children's BAFTA awards: Best Drama, Best Writer (for Alison Hume) and Breakthrough Talent (for Eliot Otis Brown Walters). It won the awards for writer & breakthrough nominations. The show launched the careers of a number of young actors, most notably Jessie Cave who went on to star as 'Lavender Brown' in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and also Olly Alexander, Eliot Otis Brown Walters, and Holly Bodimeade.

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The series was also shown on BBC One, and as a feature-length film on BBC Four.

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Summerhill (TV series) Wikipedia