The Teacher on Channel 5: What it's about, cast and where you've seen them before

Lisa Kudrow is showing support to two of her former co-stars!

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was sure that Chris Licht was the right person for the job of showrunner of his CBS late-night show when the pair met over a drink six years ago.

An organization of owners and executives from the original United States Football League filed suit today in Los Angeles to block Fox Sports’ planned launch of a new version of the legacy league.

The FTC is set to decide over the next few weeks whether to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon’s planned merger with MGM. The Information reported this evening that the U.S. regulator is exploring actions that include hiring expert witnesses.

The highest-ranked Ukrainian tennis player in the world, Elina Svitolina, announced today that due to the Russian invasion of her country, she would not play a “match against Russian or Belarussian [sic] tennis players until our organizations take this necessary decision.”

This Morning presenter Josie Gibson has taken to social media to ask followers for their help after her friend became stranded in Ukraine. The 37-year-old took to Twitter to ask her 344,000 followers to help her friend, a mother, and her two children, who are stuck in the northeast city of Kharkiv and struggling to get out.

snow plume is drifting across the Atlantic and could bring a return to weather chaos in a matter of days.Around three inches of snow are predicted to land in parts next week, with flakes expected in every part of the United Kingdom.New weather maps from independent forecaster WX Charts show an aggressive weather front sweeping in from the south east next Thursday (March 10) around midday.Some of the heaviest snowfall will come in the Welsh Valleys, with Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and the north east of England also expected to experience up to three inches later in the day.In areas further south, this weather is expected to instead come in the form of extreme heavy rain, with nine to 10mm of precipitation anticipated per hour in London, Bristol and the Home Counties.Looking ahead to net week, the Met Office outlook for Saturday (March 5) to Monday (March 14) reads: "A largely settled start to this period with sunny spells across the north and west. "Cloudier conditions with light rain or drizzle are more likely further south and east, although brighter spells are also possible here.

warlord who murdered LGBT+ people in what became known as the "gay purge" has been killed fighting in Ukraine. Magomed Tushayev was a military boss under the command of feared Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Anti-gay purges were first reported in Chechnya, now a constituent republic of Russia, in 2017 and involved secret abductions, torture and extrajudicial killings.

Ukraine following the invasion of the Eastern European country by Russia.

Rebel Wilson, 41, is a renowned comedian but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have time for her family. In fact, the Pitch Perfect star is super close to her siblings, whom she claims keep her grounded.  She has opened up about her family a number of times as she has risen up in fame. When revealing how her unique name came about, she shared that it’s something she and her siblings have in common. “A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that’s where my name came from,” she said according to Daily Mail. “My three siblings and I all have middle names after English royalty. Mine is Elizabeth, which is what I was known as at school.” With that said, meet the Bridesmaids star’s three siblings!

They announced their engagement back in January.And Ron Perlman, 71, showed he was still madly in love with his fiancée Allison Dunbar, 49, when he couldn't keep his hands off her as they hit the red carpet for the fifth annual Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) Film Awards.The lovebirds both look effortlessly elegant in matching black outfits as they arrived at the Avalon nightclub in Hollywood on Monday evening. Loved-up: Ron Pelrman, 71, couldn't keep his hands off his actress fiancée Allison Dunbar, 49, at the fifth annual HCA Film Awards in Hollywood on MondayAllison looked gorgeous in a voluminous black satin dress with a plunging neckline.The outfit included a thick black bow tied over her bust that drooped down to her knees, and the long skirt reached to the ground.

Naya Rivera‘s family has privately settled a wrongful death lawsuit that was filed against Ventura County, where she tragically drowned in July 2020.

Channel 5's The Teacher had viewers unimpressed with many confused by the same unanswered question.In the all-engrossing show, Sheridan Smith has been playing the lead role of the teacher Jenna Garvey, who had been accused of having sex with a pupil in a nightclub toilet during a night out.Over the last four days, the four-part psychological drama had viewers hooked with its nail-biting storyline. However with the show's final episode airing on Thursday fans were not happy with its "disappointing ending".Many were baffled, left with unanswered questions – mainly whether Teacher Jenna was still branded a sex offender or if she ever cleared her name.One tweeted: "Well, what a waste of time The Teacher was, worst ending I've ever seen."Another said: "That rushed ending was a letdown.

Sharon Rooney stars alongside Sheridan Smith and Kelvin Fletcher in Channel 5's latest drama series The Teacher.

SCHOOL classrooms can often be a place where innocent love notes are swapped and pupils share longing looks. But when the attraction is between a teacher and their student, it can become far more sinister.

Kelvin Fletcher - was seen picking her up from the nightclub and leaving with her in his car - something else Jenna had no recollection of.When she went to his house to confront him Jack told Jenna he hadn't mentioned anything because she had been calling him to pick her up and when he did they did "everything but sex."As Jenna began receiving anonymous packages containing malicious items - including a used condom - viewers became more and more convinced that Jack must be behind the plot to set her up.And she discovered former colleague Nina had been behind fake email and social media accounts set up to target her and headed to the pub to confront her.Kyle was then seen receiving text messages on a burner phone he had hidden under his bed from someone named simply 'T' fans of the show couldn't hold back as they took to Twitter convinced the 'T' stood for teacher and that Jack was behind it all.One wrote: "Something not sitting right with Jack. I bet he’s the one been at it with the kid #TheTeacher."Another added: "Jack is 100% dodgy! He's probably grooming Kyle #TheTeacher."A third chipped in: "Calling it now Jack is in on it with Kyle and set Jenna up."A fourth posted: "Jack is grooming Kyle...

Sheridan Smith's new Channel 5 drama The Teacher have all come to the same conclusion about the plot of the show.The debut instalment last night saw Sheridan's incarnation of troubled teacher Jenna Garvey stand accused of abusing a position of trust, and sex with a minor after a drunken night out culminated in a blackout in memory where she allegedly had sex with one of her 15-year-old pupils.Fans of the show were riveted when the debut episode on Monday (January 31) saw Sheridan bring the character - and her very short skirt - to life on the small screen.They were soon left shocked when she drank heavily on a night out causing her to have a blackout and seeing her walk off holding hands with young pupil Kyle.Fast forward to the next morning and Jenna woke up on her sofa alone, with her memories of the events of the night before missing entirely.By Monday morning when the educator showed up at work she was left mortified after being told she was not welcome in the school and had been accused of inappropriate conduct with the minor.As things kicked off on Tuesday's (February 1) instalment of the programme viewers began to develop an interesting theory about the plot of the programme.Her lawyer was seen telling Jenna there was a lack of forensic evidence to prove she had taken part in sexual activity with her pupil, with the bulk of the case built on circumstantial evidence.However, things took an interesting turn when she was shown sexual photos she had allegedly sent the teenager over an app she seemingly had no clue was on her phone - which had notably gone missing for a period in episode one before turning up in a drawer just after one of her colleagues had been in the room.Sleuth-inspired viewers then took to Twitter

Drama fans were tuning in to Channel 5 on Monday night for the broadcaster's latest offering.

Sheridan Smith caught the eye of viewers of her new Channel 5 drama The Teacher and distracted them from the storyline.The popular actress was seen strutting around her place of employment as she took on the role of badly behaved English teacher Jenna Garvey in the new series.The show - which airs nightly until Thursday - focuses on the character as she comes under fire in her job and stands accused of "inappropriate behaviour" with one of her young pupils.Sheridan, 40, delivered a stellar performance as the troubled educator, but it wasn't just her acting skills that garnered a reaction from the viewers.As her opening scenes saw her strutting through the school wearing a very short skirt, viewers couldn't help but comment on the attire as they questioned if it was an entirely appropriate outfit for a teacher.Taking to Twitter to air their opinion on the characters sense of style the Channel 5 viewers didn't hold back.One wrote: "Sheridan Smith is awesome as always. BUT no teacher in the land wears a skirt that short to work.

Sheridan Smith has opened up on working with Kelvin Fletcher on new Channel 5 drama The Teacher.The 40-year-old actress plays Jenna Garvey, a popular teacher with a chaotic private life and accused of sleeping with young pupil, Kyle, after a night out.She begins to reassess her life choices and starts her mission to prove her innocence in the gripping Channel 5 drama.Sheridan's character finds herself attracted to Kelvin's character Jack despite him being married.Speaking about working with Kelvin, Sheridan said: "I hadn’t worked with Kelvin either, but I championed him on Strictly and I'd seen him on Emmerdale for years, I always thought he was a great actor."He’s a really nice guy and Jenna has a really complex relationship with his character."She’s so lost, she’s craving love but in all the wrong places and he's a married man."TV favourite Sheridan is known for playing real-life people in her career from Cilla Black to Mrs Briggs, and this time she got to create her character from scratch.Opening up why she joined the cast, Sheridan explained: "We'd all been in lockdown, I'd had my son and I'd been reading lots of different scripts.

Emmerdale hunk Kelvin Fletcher has revealed that filming new psychological thriller The Teacher has made him consider making a huge career U-turn.The 38-year-old actor plays popular ICT teacher Jack in the griping Channel 5 series.He is a married man but his workplace flirtation with Sheridan Smith's character Jenna Garvey threatens to bubble over into a full affair.The four-part programme follows Jenna whose life unravels after being accused of a drunken sexual encounter with one of her pupils.With no memory of the night in question, Jenna’s only hope of redemption lies in uncovering the truth about a dark event in her past that returns to haunt her.Opening up about what it felt like returning to a school in Budapest for filming, Kelvin said: "It was surreal. I loved school and I was pretty strong academically, but going back as an adult I felt a bit out of my depth."You still feel like you’re a kid, so I was expecting to be told off by a teacher at any given moment."It was a bit jarring when I remembered I was playing the teacher.