I've only just noticed a two-year overlap between the shows, and at least TWO of the child actors from one have moved to the other.
Maybe because Grange Hill was relegated to CBBC and that Waterloo Road was the newer, more edgier version of the typical school drama to air in primetime BBC1, that the former was prone to the axe?
I wouldn't be surprised.
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I think even without Waterloo Road Grange Hill would of ended, I just don't think the time slot worked anymore and the age group that Grange Hill was aimed at wouldn't really watch the cbbc channel.
shareI actually thought it ended donkey's years before Waterloo Road first aired!
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I can't believe I forgot this, but I remember hearing that Grange Hill was axed by the guy who originally wrote it (who, I think is the same guy who created Brookside and Hollyoaks). This was because he felt that the new writers had taken the show too far away from his original vision - it was no longer Grange Hill in his mind, so it ended.
This was verbal, so I don't have any articles to back this up, but it's what I heard.
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Grange Hill died because it had run for 30 years and was well past it's sell-by date. I watched it as a 90s kid and it was great. But I tuned into a couple of episodes near the end of its run in 2008 and it was a completely different show.
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Grange Hill got really rubbish by the end of the 90s and was a shadow of its former self and limped on 5-10yrs longer than it should have.
shareGrange Hill was cancelled after nearly 30 years because CBBC television as you say became a shadow of its former self and limped on 5-10yrs longer than it should have. CBBC isn't even on the UK's terrestrial channels anymore but satellite and cable. what in its place on BBC 1 i wouldn't even have my niece and nephew watch without me in the same room, as they'd get bored out of their minds unless i showed them something else instead. Back in the day Grange Hill was powerful stuff not now though, when the era of television we're in is way more demanding of dramatic television dramas.
Grange Hill good as it was couldn't have made the switch in its schedules the way Waterloo Road is aired after 7 or 8pm no way. Waterloo Road isn't exactly a prime time show itself or aired after the 9. o'clock watershed time (whoa if it did) but clearly its written to be a more sophisticated version of what Grange Hill was in its day.
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To be fair CBBC isn't inaccessible now everyone has switched to digital but Grange Hill could not survive in this climate with so much competition.
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