Ackley Bridge series 1

The first series of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge began broadcasting on 7 June 2017 on Channel 4, and ended on 12 July 2017. The series follows the lives of the staff and pupils at the fictional multi-cultural academy school Ackley Bridge College, in the fictitious Yorkshire mill town of Ackley Bridge. It consists of six sixty-minute episodes.

Production
Channel 4 announced the casting for new school drama, The ABC, in early 2017. Production and filming on the series began in February 2017 in Halifax, West Yorkshire with the former St Catherine's Catholic High School used as Ackley Bridge College. The series was later renamed to Ackley Bridge.

Main
• Poppy Lee Friar as Missy Booth

• Amy-Leigh Hickman as Nasreen Paracha

• Jo Joyner as Mandy Carter

• Sunetra Sarker as Kaneez Paracha

• Nazmeen Kauser as Razia Paracha

• Cody Ryan as Hayley Booth

• Esa Ashraf as Saleem Paracha

• Sam Bottomley as Jordan Wilson

• Paul Nicholls as Steve Bell

• Adil Ray as Sadiq Nawaz

• Liz White as Emma Keane

• Tom Varey as Will Simpson

• Maariah Hussain as Alya Nawaz

• Arsher Ali as Samir Qureshi

• Lorraine Cheshire as Lorraine Bird

• Sam Retford as Cory Wilson

• Nohail Mohammed as Riz Nawaz

• Fern Deacon as Chloe Voyle

• Anneika Rose as Lila Shariff

• Samantha Power as Simone Booth

Recurring
• Rita May as Julie 'Nana' Booth

• Zain Khan as Zain Younis

• Hassan Mahmood as Amin Abad

• India Parsan as Tahira Abad

• Alisha Zaman as Amira Gill

• Kainat Butt as Shireen Siddiqui

• Abdullah Shahid as Mo Akhtar

• Arbaz Rashid as Waqar Abdul-Rehman

• Chloe Lumb as Shannon Burns

• Nathan Green as Neil Sykes

• Matthew Priestley as Jake Earnshaw

• Harry Myers as Dan Fairfax

• Steve Jackson as Kevin Wilson

• Emily Pyzer as Candice Murgatroyd

• Narinder Samra as Iqbal Paracha

• Surinda Kaur as Granny Paracha

Guest
• Chris Abe as Police Officer

• Freddie Bolt as Reece Murgatroyd

• Jamie Dorrington as Jack Murgatroyd

• Sean Croke as Alex Hamilton

• Stuart Manning as Nik Voyle

• Sebastian Shaw as Adam Smith

• Anu Hasan as Farida Nawaz

• Noorul Choudhury as GP

• Wendy Patterson as Funeral Director

• Simon Lowe as Darren Critchall

• Jag Sanghera as Karim

• Kiran Landa as Maryam Qureshi

• Anastasia Ryan as Lady in Hebden Bridge

• Julian Kay as Gary Williams

• Alexandra D'Sa as Sita Kapoor

• Gurjeet Singh as Naveed Haider

• Kate Baines as Solicitor

• Mark Chatterton as Judge

• Michael Forrest as Chair of Governors