The Dumping Ground

For the current series, see The Dumping Ground (series 4).
The Dumping Ground
The Dumping Ground Title Card
Genre Children's drama
Based on The book
by Jacqueline Wilson
Directed by
  • Craig Lines
  • Stewart Svaasand
  • Diana Patrick
  • Nigel Douglas
  • Sallie Aprahamian
  • Roberto Bangura
  • Sarah Walkerhr
  • Noreen Kershaw
Starring Current cast
Theme music composer Jeremy Holland-Smith
Composer(s) Jeremy Holland-Smith (Series 1)
Simon Rogers (Series 2-Present)[1]
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 4
No. of episodes 67 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Louise Sutton
  • Simon Nelson
  • Philip Leach
Cinematography
  • Chris Goodger
  • Steve Buckland
Editor(s) Natasha Wilkinson
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 28 minutes (regular episodes)
Production company(s) BBC
Distributor BBC Worldwide
Release
Original network
Picture format HDTV 1080i
Original release 4 January 2013 (2013-01-04) – present (present)
Chronology
Preceded by Tracy Beaker Returns (8th January 2010 – 23rd March 2012)
Related shows
External links
The Dumping Ground

The Dumping Ground is a BAFTA Award Winning British children's drama series that focuses on the lives and experiences of young people and their care workers in care. Filmed around Jesmond, the setting for the first series was 'Elm Tree House',[2] which was later replaced with 'Ashdene Ridge' from the second series onwards. A spin-off to Tracy Beaker Returns, the series was commissioned in early 2012 and first broadcast on CBBC and the now-defunct BBC HD on 4 January 2013.[3][4]

Premise

The premise of the series revolves around the life of children in the Ashdene Ridge care home; typically each episode follows one or more characters' adventures and includes subplots featuring other characters. Episodes frequently include moral messages and tackle social issues.

The first series of The Dumping Ground was announced in March 2012, when Amy-Leigh Hickman (Carmen Howle) announced it live in the CBBC office. The first series was filmed for 13 weeks at the recently closed La Sagesse School in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, the same setting used for Tracy Beaker Returns. This series was the last to feature the school as the general setting in the Tracy Beaker franchise. The second series featured a new home called 'Ashdene Ridge', because La Sagesse School and its surrounding land was to be demolished and converted into a luxury housing estate.[5] Each series is filmed in the summer, before being shown the following year.

Episodes

The Dumping Ground is airing its fourth series. The first half of the fourth series premiered on 29 January 2016, and ended on 25 March, the same year, it consisted of 10 episodes. Series 4B began on 30 September 2016, and conclude on 2 December 2016, with another 10 episodes. The shows first two episodes premiered on 4 January 2013 and aired until 15 March of that year. This was followed by a one-off Christmas special on 16 December 2013. The second series aired from 10 January until 28 March 2014. A third series of twenty episodes was split into two parts, with the first ten episodes airing from 16 January until 13 March 2015 (which saw Joe Maw leave) while the remaining episodes aired from 6 October until 8 December 2015.[6] A fifth series (again splitting into two halves; consisting of twelve half-hour episodes each part) was confirmed by broadcaster CBBC in May 2015, to air in 2017.

There has been a 2013 Christmas special and online TV spin-off Liam's Story, which received a TV broadcast on 23 March 2014. Another TV spin-off series entitled 'The Dumping Ground: I'm...' aired from 25 January 2016 until 10 February 2016, when all the residents and care workers gathered round the TV and watched 'my life in care' videos. It consisted of 10 episodes. The characters that did not have a video were Harry Jones (Wasn't even in the front room with everyone else watching the other's videos), Billie and Toni Trent and Finn McLaine

SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
1134 January 2013 (2013-01-04)15 March 2013 (2013-03-15)
Special16 December 2013 (2013-12-16)
21310 January 2014 (2014-01-10)28 March 2014 (2014-03-28)
3201016 January 2015 (2015-01-16)13 March 2015 (2015-03-13)
106 October 2015 (2015-10-06)8 December 2015 (2015-12-08)
4201029 January 2016 (2016-01-29)25 March 2016 (2016-03-25)
1030 September 2016 (2016-09-30)2 December 2016 (2016-12-02)
52412January 2017 (2017-01)March 2017 (2017-03)
12September 2017 (2017-09)December 2017 (2017-12)
Special25 March 2016 (2016-03-25)

Cast and characters

The series revolves around a group of children living in a care home with all the troubles and dramas that happen within their lives. The longest-serving character is Mike Milligan, who previously appeared in "The Story of Tracy Beaker" in 2002 and 2006, and then reappeared in "Tracy Beaker Returns" (2010–12); he has featured in 56 of 58 episodes of "The Dumping Ground" since then.

Ratings

Series No. Episode No. Airdate Viewers Avg. Viewers CBBC Weekly Ranking BBC iPlayer requests [nb 1] Source
1 1 4 January 2013 625,000 545,000 1 1,479,000 [7]
2 11 January 2013 567,000 1 1,078,000 [7]
3 18 January 2013 684,000 1 1,072,000 [7]
4 25 January 2013 500,000 1 1,076,000 [7]
5 1 February 2013 631,000 1 TBA TBA
6 8 February 2013 545,000 1 943,000 [8]
7 15 February 2013 594,000 1 810,000 [8]
8 22 February 2013 486,000 2 TBA TBA
9 1 March 2013 463,000 1 TBA TBA
10 8 March 2013 438,000 1 977,000 [9]
11 15 March 2013 422,000 2 928,000 [9]
12 22 March 2013 479,000 2 877,000 [9]
13 5 April 2013 649,000 1 823,000 [9]
Special 16 December 2013 504,000 N/A 1 913,000 [10]
2 1 10 January 2014 565,000 396,000 1 1,241,000 [11]
2
3 17 January 2014 322,000 2 TBA TBA
4 24 January 2014 449,000 1 TBA TBA
5 31 January 2014 Outside Top 10 Outside Top 10 TBA TBA
6 7 February 2014 Outside Top 10 Outside Top 10 TBA TBA
7 14 February 2014 358,000 5 856,000 [12]
8 21 February 2014 341,000 1 TBA TBA
9 28 February 2014 382,000 2 TBA TBA
10 7 March 2014 467,000 1 TBA TBA
11 14 March 2014 361,000 1 TBA TBA
12 21 March 2014 412,000 1 TBA TBA
13 28 March 2014 302,000 2 TBA TBA
3 1 16 January 2015 269,000 311,000 3 1,400,000 [13]
2
3 23 January 2015 298,000 1 TBA TBA
4 30 January 2015 248,000 1 TBA TBA
5 6 February 2015 247,000 3 950,000 [14]
6 13 February 2015 251,000 1 TBA TBA
7 20 February 2015 255,000 2 TBA TBA
8 27 February 2015 332,000 2 TBA TBA
9 6 March 2015 274,000 1 TBA TBA
10 13 March 2015 306,000 1 826,000 [15]
11 6 October 2015 323,000 4 904,000 [16]
12 13 October 2015 386,000 1 TBA TBA
13 20 October 2015 355,000 2 TBA TBA
14 27 October 2015 325,000 5 TBA TBA
15 3 November 2015 396,000 2 755,000 [17]
16 10 November 2015 254,000 6 TBA TBA
17 17 November 2015 327,000 2 TBA TBA
18 24 November 2015 360,000 1 TBA TBA
19 1 December 2015 263,000 3 719,000 [17]
20 8 December 2015 443,000 1 TBA TBA
4 1 29 January 2016 370,000 1 N/A N/A
2
3 5 February 2016 447,000 1 845,000 [18]
4 12 February 2016 309,000 1 N/A N/A
5 19 February 2016 237,000 7 N/A N/A
6 26 February 2016 341,000 1 666,000 [18]
7 4 March 2016 269,000 1 N/A N/A
8 11 March 2016 247,000 2 N/A N/A
9 18 March 2016 333,000 1 N/A N/A
10 25 March 2016 Outside Top 10 Outside Top 10 N/A N/A
11 30 September 2016 285,000 2 N/A N/A
12 7 October 2016 271,000 3 N/A N/A
13 14 October 2016 371,000 1 N/A N/A
14 21 October 2016 Outside Top 10 Outside Top 10 N/A N/A
15 29 October 2016 195,000 6 N/A N/A
16 4 November 2016 196,000 7 N/A N/A
17 11 November 2016 207,000 10 N/A N/A
18 18 November 2016 342,000 1 N/A N/A

Awards and nominations

Ceremony Award Nominee Result
2013 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards Best Children's Television Script Elly Brewer for "What Would Gus Want?" Won
Emma Reeves for "The Truth is Out There" Nominated
2013 British Academy Children's Awards[19] Best Drama The Dumping Ground Won
2014 British Academy Children's Awards[20] BAFTA Kid's Vote – Television The Dumping Ground Nominated
Best Actor Kia Pegg as Jody Jackson Nominated
2015 British Academy Children's Awards[21] Children's Drama in 2015 The Dumping Ground Nominated
Interactive: Adapted in 2015 The Dumping Ground: You're The Boss Won
Royal Television Society North East and the Border Awards 2016 Drama in 2016 The Dumping Ground Won
2016 British Academy Children's Awards[22] Best Drama The Dumping Ground Pending

References

  1. ↑ "The Dumping Ground (TV Series 2013-) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Lawson, Rush (8 October 2012). "Old La Sagesse school is location for new CBBC show". Evening Chronicle. (Trinity Mirror). Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "CBBC commissions The Dumping Ground". BBC. 21 March 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "BBC to launch five new HD channels as Freeview expands". BBC News. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
  5. ↑ La Sagesse Development Site. David Wilson Homes. 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sasha storms into The Dumping Ground – CBBC – BBC". CBBC Online. (subscription required (help)).
  7. 1 2 3 4 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-jan13.pdf
  8. 1 2 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-feb13.pdf
  9. 1 2 3 4 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-mar13.pdf
  10. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-dec13.pdf
  11. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-jan14.pdf
  12. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-feb14.pdf
  13. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-jan15.pdf
  14. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-feb15.pdf
  15. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-mar15.pdf
  16. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-oct15.pdf
  17. 1 2 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-dec15.pdf
  18. 1 2 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/iplayer/iplayer-performance-febmar-2016.pdf
  19. ↑ "Children's in 2013".
  20. ↑ "Children's in 2014".
  21. ↑ "Children's in 2015".
  22. ↑ "Children's in 2016".
  1. ↑ Up to the end of the relevant month

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