A question, when Grange Hill moved to Liverpool, did the setting actually move to Liverpool or was it still a London school that happened to be full of scousers?
A question, when Grange Hill moved to Liverpool, did the setting actually move to Liverpool or was it still a London school that happened to be full of scousers?
This would probably be the better idea than writing a far fetched storyline into the show. They lose a lot of characters every series. In 2-3 years the cast will be entirely different which would make the whole thing redundant. Settings become irrelevant in shows like this.
A question, when Grange Hill moved to Liverpool, did the setting actually move to Liverpool or was it still a London school that happened to be full of scousers?
Mark Fowler went back to Grange Hill for the last ever episode, so I guess it was meant to be the same school. Unless he had a line of dialogue, "It's a lot further from Walford than I remember" or something.
If the move to Glasgow must happen, it might be a better idea to keep the location the same (maybe more generic) and have a new Scottish head or senior teacher their partner and their children move into the school.
All this box ticking relocation is doing the licence payer no favours at all. Indeed surely filming in Rochdale is much better anyway to tick such boxes than moving production to a major city.
Wasn't Waterloo Road a BBC Scotland production anyway. Consider Question Time will remain on the road but be based in Glasgow is there really a need to move the physical location?
All this box ticking relocation is doing the licence payer no favours at all. Indeed surely filming in Rochdale is much better anyway to tick such boxes than moving production to a major city.
Wasn't Waterloo Road a BBC Scotland production anyway.
I'm not sure how the BBC get away with such faked regional quota filling.
Surely to count as being made in the region, a high % of staff employed should be based in that area.
Waterloo Road currently being a Production for BBC Scotland is farcical. Question Time being a BBC Scotland production is daft as well. I doubt the production office amounts to many staff.
Waterloo Road currently being a Production for BBC Scotland is farcical. Question Time being a BBC Scotland production is daft as well. I doubt the production office amounts to many staff.
And moving a load of gameshows to Scotland although good for local jobs, hardly represents Scotland in anyway.
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Apart from the following:
* Rivercity
* 12 episode of Comedy a year
* Beechgrove Garden
* Landward
* Extend Politics show in Scotland
Which lets be honest just seems to tick boxes. everything else just seems to be networked show that come from London. Maybe BBC should networked some of the above?