British school dramedy Ackley Bridge premieres on Acorn TV on Monday, January 13. Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and Charlie Hardwick (Emmerdale) are the latest cast additions in the new season of eight irreverent episodes set in and around a school designed to unite the divided racial communities of a small Yorkshire mill town.
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