The head teacher of Brentwood County High School, Stephen Drew, has landed his own TV series, sending parents and children back to school.
Drew found fame in Channel 4's fly-on-the-wall series Educating Essex as deputy head of Passmores Academy in Harlow, and it was from that BCHS governors decided to appoint him as a replacement for Carol Mason who stood down last spring.
He will now feature in a six-part series, with a working title All Back To School, in which he will help to turn around the lives of young people with problems.
Seen as a tough disciplinarian in Educating Essex, governors at BCHS turned to him in a bid to improve round the school's performance after demanding change when it received a third satisfactory Ofsted rating in a row in February 2012.
At his appointment the 40-year-old said he wanted to aim for the school reaching a good Ofsted level by the end of the year.
In the new Channel 4 programme, he will work with children aged between nine and 12, many on the brink of permanent exclusion, at a residential summer school.
He will work with a team of specialists to get the best from the youngsters but parents will also be in the school to witness the troublesome behaviour and have their own parenting skills examined.
Katie Boyd, who commissioned the series for the station, said: "He is one of the most inspirational and generous-minded teachers in Britain, with an incredible track record. If anyone can turnaround families at rock bottom, he can."
