I just heard that Grange Hill is canceled! What the Hell! Some things just need to go on. I live in the States and I manage to watch this youthful programme whenever I can. All I'm saying is I haven't felt this bad over a TV show since Cheers was canceled.
Gentlemen, is it just me or do my balls itch? -Tom Aldridge
gplechuckIII, what channel do you watch Grange Hill on? This show sounds interesting, and I want to see it.
shareHi seen and mot seen,
The legend that is Grange Hill is on every Monday on BBC1 at 4.35 ( though for the las few wks itn has varied coz of Wimbledon and Euro 2008) and Saturday's at 4pm on the CBBC Channel is the repeat Episode from the Monday before!
Ps be quick though they are only 9 ever Episodes sadly left - ever.
Hope this helps.
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I've just watched an episode for the first time since the late 90s and it's a shell of it's former shadow. The acting is horrific - I know it was never one of the show's strong suits but it's way worse than it used to be. The whole show now seems to focus on the youngest kids in the school where once it covered all age ranges and worst of all it's peppered with bizarre fantasy sequences. Frankly, it needs to be put out of it's misery - it has more in common with Saved By The Bell now than with Grange Hill as it used to be.
The sad thing is, most of these changes were probably insisted on by the very same people who have now decided to cancel it because no one's watching any more. The BBC has a habit of doing this with it's most popular shows once they reach a certain age - Top Of The Pops, Byker Grove and the original Doctor Who were all run into the ground (budget cuts, terrible scheduling) by the BBC heirachy who then gleefully cancelled them on the grounds that they were out of date and unpopular (yeah, thanks to you!)
I honestly believe that Grange Hill can be as popular and successful as it once was if it stops aiming exclusively at the 10-12 age range and starts to grow some balls again. I know people claim that older kids wouldn't watch it now because they're too busy playing GTA IV but - newsflash - kids had video games in the 80s and 90s too and the show was popular then, so why not now? If you make a quality show that's well written and deals with the kind of issues teenagers want to talk about then they will watch it! That for me is the only thing that could save the show and if the BBC don't want to do that then I believe they should go ahead and cancel it rather than let it limp on in it's current form.
Bront 2 win!
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Was XS the fat kid who desperately wanted to be Jeremy Kyle or the little kid with the afro?
Either way justice should be swift and merciless.
Bront 2 win!
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Just out of interest I've just watched some old 1989 episode on Youtube, just to make sure I wasn't looking at it through rose-tinted glasses and it wasn't always as bad as it is now. The 19-year old episode was streets ahead of what was on this afternoon - better writing, better acting, better direction, better characterisation. It's amazing how well it stood up compared with what's on TV today.
Bront 2 win!
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