Danny McColl

Danny McColl edits the Junior Gazette with a seriousness that outstrips his years, chasing real stories with real deadlines as though the school paper were Fleet Street. He is earnest, stubborn, and quietly ambitious, forever squaring off against his sharp-tongued deputy Lynda Day over how the thing should be run.

Creed-Miles plays Danny's intensity without ever tipping him into parody, so the character's boyish gravity feels earned rather than silly. The scripts trust him with real stakes and real arguments, and his prickly, unresolved chemistry with Lynda gives the newsroom scenes a charge that outlasts any single storyline.