Who'd ever want to ever be involved helping Grange Hill be back on TV
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Ok, I know I rant on but ...... let's say a petition was "doing the rounds" what would you think?
How many of the Digital Spy members would REALLY REALLY would be interested and believe it should return to TV!?
DS
Ps, if your going to leave a nasty remark/comment/post, i'd appreciate it if you don't bother please as this is the most serious post i've ever ever made in my 3 year's on here
How many of the Digital Spy members would REALLY REALLY would be interested and believe it should return to TV!?
DS
Ps, if your going to leave a nasty remark/comment/post, i'd appreciate it if you don't bother please as this is the most serious post i've ever ever made in my 3 year's on here
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Series 26-30 just about kept the flame burning but the enforced changes means series 31 is unwatchable junk.
Kids tv has changed and the kind of social issues that were the backbone of the show cannot be realistically portrayed during kids tv time which is why some other shows in later slots kind of took over from GH.
No need to make it again but repeats from day one are long overdue
I totally agree that it ended when the school blew up! I was amazed when it returned after that and the majority were scousers. What the hell was all that about?
Grange Hill would have survived today if BBC Switch was around from when Series 25 was coming to an end. It could have moved to there at say a 6pm slot on BBC TWO. Looking at it if BBC Switch was on 6-7pm on BBC TWO weekdays, it would have worked.
Just say no, just say no..oh, oh.....:p
I agree! It was unmissable, jaw-dropping viewing for me when I was a kid. Bronson terrified me at the time. And when Zammo was discovered in the bogs...:eek:
You are slightly wrong about Mr Bronson still being in Grange Hill 1991! He left in 1989!
It was almost the best thing on TV when I was young but It will never be done again. I fear political correctness and the soapy nature of programs would get in the way in an updated version.
Like others here I have fond but fearfull memories of Mr Bronson. There are also memories of fat and bullied Roland, smelly unwashed tearaway Tegs Ratcliffe and super sexy Justine Dean.
The only kids program which was better was Maid Marrion and Her Merry Men. Which in some ways is similar to the brilliant The Legend of Dick and Dom.
As for the scousification of Grange Hill then that was down to Phil Redmond taking it to Liverpool. He already had a school like building as the then Mersey TV studios were in a former college. A bit of redesigning and you have buildings looking like a school.
Had Phil Redmond not taken up the option though to make Grange Hill for the BBC then it's possible the axe would have fell after the fire
However Waterloo Road has in many ways filled the gap and allows for tackling storylines (and dull ones too) and mixing students and teachers alike. In order for any Grange Hill to return and have such storylines it would have to be aired later than children shows anyways (was always the case anyways, seeing it always the last show of the children schedule during its prime). Due to having Waterloo Road, there is no need having Grange Hill apart from its history and thats where it should be kept now.
Either the programme has moved beyond the reality so reflects a society that's too graphic and beyond reality or the programme is describing a reality that is more graphic than society.
Either way, things are tricky. You can't take the young people in the programme back; the viewers just roll their eyes and say this aint realistic. Likewise, you can't pretend what's happening might not happen because [art of the point of drama is to take the audience futher than current reality.
Either way lies problems with censorship and ratings.
I'm not sure what the answer is.
I don't subscribe to the argument that "you couldn't do those sorts of stories today" (there was often shock - amongst those easily shocked - that the story was done then, but they were. And I'm sure most are more open minded now).
It was just a programme which had come to the end of its natural life (in fact, it had gone past it).
I wish people would accept that happens.
I'm not sure what you're saying in this post!
Yeah I agree with you here Frood. I don't subscribe to the argument either!
After all (to me) when all is said and done "Waterloo Road will always be Waterloo Raod, same as Grange Hill will always be Grange Hill"
Plus too Waterloo Road is in effect about "dramartisation" I think and more so creating "shock stoerylines" Grange Hill did'nt always do this - often yeah but not always.
This is how they differ in my opinion and can't be compared
However I personally do not think petitions work.
Agree
Do we know each other Bilythekid? Hope we do anywayz!