The Demon Headmaster is coming back to CBBC (Picture: BBC)

The BBC is reviving The Demon Headmaster to terrorise a brand new generation of kids.

Gillian Cross, the author of the books the original series was based on, has penned a new novel with the Demon Headmaster becoming a ‘Super Head’ of an Academy.

However the plot is largely the same, with a group of children finding out their head ‘is using hypnotism to gain ultimate control of their school.

‘But how can they fight an antagonist who manipulates their every move?’


It will run for 10, 30-minute long episodes on CBBC and iPlayer, and if it’s anything like the original, make sure there’s space behind the sofa.



The original series ran for three series between 1996 to 1998 and starred Terrence Hardiman as the horrifying Head.

Back then it followed a girl called Dinah Glass who notices something strange about the school she attends with her foster brothers.

Terrence Hardiman as the Demon Headmaster back in the day (Picture: BBC)

While Hardiman won’t be involved with the new series, the actor said he was looking forward to seeing what the titular villain gets up to next.

‘I have happy memories of working in The Demon Headmaster in the nineties, and I wish every success to the new production. I expect to be totally hypnotised,’ he told Radiotimes.com.

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