Grange Hill Ends..

Respect me for not making this an RIP thread... Anyroad:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7230566.stm

BBC to shut gates on Grange Hill


The BBC is axing children's TV school drama Grange Hill after 30 years.
CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist said: "The lives of children have changed a great deal since Grange Hill began and we owe it to them to reflect this."

The series began on 8 February 1978 and featured some tough storylines about social issues including drugs and teenage pregnancy over the years.

There will be one more series this year, in which producers want to focus on the younger children of Year Six.

The show's creator Phil Redmond was reportedly unhappy with the strategy and felt the programme was losing its gritty purpose.

"I don't like keeping things going when the point has been lost," he told the Observer recently. "I do now think the point of Grange Hill has been lost, and 30 years is a nice time for it to hang up its mortar board."