I will never forgive for making me believe high school was badass. I rocked up fully expecting to go hunting for buried treasure. Instead, I was locked inside a classroom and forced to do my multiplication tables.

The least the headmistress could have done was give me a clique-worthy makeover. If it’s been a hot minute since you’ve seen the British comedy classic, it’s streaming on on August 11th at 8:30 pm and August 12th at 12 pm. Given it’s been 17 years (!!) since its release, here’s a refresher on the series and where the beloved cast is now.

The movie series was based on a that ran from October 1941 until January 1st, 1952. The comics came about because Searle’s s, after they were evacuated during World War II. Their school was infamous for allowing its pupils freedom of education, just like in the movies.

Ronald first published the comics about boarding school girls running wild in the 1941 magazine . In 1942, the creator of was and held as a POW until 1945. He picked back up in 1946, not before trying to kill them off in his 1953 book, by Nuclear Explosion.

While the old-school versions are worth a watch, the one you know and love is the 2007 classic. follows private schoolgirl Annabelle Fritton as she tries to fit into a boarding school of misfits. The 2009 sequel is , where they find buried treasure.

If you had no idea about , I wouldn’t get your hopes up. They were supposed to start filming in 2013, but it was scrapped due to funding problems. would h.