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Interesting interview with Gwyneth Powell (Mrs McClusky) in the studio on this evening's BBC South East Today. Not available to view yet but another related article here...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7231367.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southeasttoday/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7231367.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southeasttoday/
AM
This is from my post on previous page.....
Just look at Waterloo Road - this is how Grange Hill used to be like (i.e. the children more than the adults!!!!) and yet Waterloo Road is a success!!!!
dbl posted:
I know that I may get jumped at.. but is it me or is Waterloo Road is like Grange Hill expanded?
This is from my post on previous page.....
Just look at Waterloo Road - this is how Grange Hill used to be like (i.e. the children more than the adults!!!!) and yet Waterloo Road is a success!!!!
BU
Deepends how you mean by long - I remember them lasting at least 5 years or so from 1993! I think they'd reached the early 90s by the time they scrapped them.
Brekkie posted:
Talking of revenue, have older episodes ever been aired on UK Gold or elsewhere?
I remember not so long ago BBC2 used to screen classic episodes around Sunday lunchtime, but they didn't last long.
I remember not so long ago BBC2 used to screen classic episodes around Sunday lunchtime, but they didn't last long.
Deepends how you mean by long - I remember them lasting at least 5 years or so from 1993! I think they'd reached the early 90s by the time they scrapped them.
IT
Now this is a shame. I was just getting in to it as well (although I am probably to old to!). Will there be a last series later this year or was the previous series the last?
TV
The first 16 series were repeated on BBC2/BBC1 at weekends between 1993-1999.
In 1990, BSB Galaxy Channel repeated the first four series.
Brekkie posted:
Talking of revenue, have older episodes ever been aired on UK Gold or elsewhere?
I remember not so long ago BBC2 used to screen classic episodes around Sunday lunchtime, but they didn't last long.
I remember not so long ago BBC2 used to screen classic episodes around Sunday lunchtime, but they didn't last long.
The first 16 series were repeated on BBC2/BBC1 at weekends between 1993-1999.
In 1990, BSB Galaxy Channel repeated the first four series.
TV
Phil Redmond has now made his first public response:
BBC HAS ABANDONED OLDER CHILDREN, SAYS REDMOND
By Mike Hornby, PA
Television producer Phil Redmond called on the BBC today to do more to promote role models for children.
Redmond, whose Grange Hill series was axed this week, also accused the corporation of "abandoning" children over the age of 12.
Giving his first public reaction to the axing of Grange Hill, Redmond wrote in his column for the Liverpool Daily Post: "The announcement comes as no shock following BBC Children's decision early last year to abandon viewers over 12 and concentrate its focus on nine-year-olds.
"Obviously, that wasn't good news for a programme that has spent 29 years focussing on secondary education."
Grange Hill, which made its mark on generations of British youngsters with its gritty portrayal of inner city school life, was axed on Wednesday. CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist said children's lives had changed since the series was first shown, 30 years ago today.
Redmond, a former Emmerdale producer and now an organiser of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, no longer has any professional connection with Grange Hill. He sold the production company Lime Pictures, which also makes Hollyoaks, three years ago.
He added in the column: "While society at large is looking for cultural role models for our children ... shouldn't the BBC, our primary public service broadcaster, be doing more, not less to plug this gap?
"Is setting the age of 12 as the end of childhood a sociological reality or simply a response to falling ratings following the usual failure to keep engaged with and serve a changing audience adequately?"
BBC HAS ABANDONED OLDER CHILDREN, SAYS REDMOND
By Mike Hornby, PA
Television producer Phil Redmond called on the BBC today to do more to promote role models for children.
Redmond, whose Grange Hill series was axed this week, also accused the corporation of "abandoning" children over the age of 12.
Giving his first public reaction to the axing of Grange Hill, Redmond wrote in his column for the Liverpool Daily Post: "The announcement comes as no shock following BBC Children's decision early last year to abandon viewers over 12 and concentrate its focus on nine-year-olds.
"Obviously, that wasn't good news for a programme that has spent 29 years focussing on secondary education."
Grange Hill, which made its mark on generations of British youngsters with its gritty portrayal of inner city school life, was axed on Wednesday. CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist said children's lives had changed since the series was first shown, 30 years ago today.
Redmond, a former Emmerdale producer and now an organiser of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, no longer has any professional connection with Grange Hill. He sold the production company Lime Pictures, which also makes Hollyoaks, three years ago.
He added in the column: "While society at large is looking for cultural role models for our children ... shouldn't the BBC, our primary public service broadcaster, be doing more, not less to plug this gap?
"Is setting the age of 12 as the end of childhood a sociological reality or simply a response to falling ratings following the usual failure to keep engaged with and serve a changing audience adequately?"
BR
There is a final series but it'll be dramatically different to any that's gone before it as it basically concentrates on 11 year olds.
InventThamesValley posted:
Now this is a shame. I was just getting in to it as well (although I am probably to old to!). Will there be a last series later this year or was the previous series the last?
There is a final series but it'll be dramatically different to any that's gone before it as it basically concentrates on 11 year olds.
TV
And they don't have anywhere near the budget of CBBC either. So GH going there was a non-starter.
Brekkie posted:
He's pretty much right. What is there now for a 13 year old to watch on the BBC? Switch certainly isn't the answer.
And they don't have anywhere near the budget of CBBC either. So GH going there was a non-starter.
MO
morgaineofevil
Well after Byker grove getting axed several years back ( was never a fan of it tho really) ity was inevitable that Grange Hill was next ihave seen a few eps from the past 4 series and was very dissapointed that it had turned into a school where kids are jut there bUt dont so much. The teachers didnt exactly do much apart from appear every now and then. what happened to the kild fighting tacking bullying in a more realistic way the teachers dishing out detentions and kids being very mischevous the focus of gritty stories that were involved IN school and not all OUT OF SCHOOL . Its tried to do what it did 15 years ago tackle issues but they don't have any relevance to in school life Im thinking of the Dennis and lucy era of 1992-1997 where school was there but didn't really have much relevance