Grange Hill RIP

Tucker's shit out of luck.

Grange Hill Ends..

Mark was quicker by 2 SECONDS

"The lives of children have changed a great deal since Grange Hill began and we owe it to them to reflect this."

laaaame. kids lives are not so different as to render a show set at a school unworkable.

but i thought this show had ended years ago until the recent redmond moan

we're all still lol zammo/danny kendall but what's the equivalent from 10 or 5 years ago?

thought this said Grant Hill

it was still going?!

Mark was quicker by 2 SECONDS

-- Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 13:23 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

.. and then I posted the link on this one, damning my thrread down!!

laaaame. kids lives are not so different as to render a show set at a school unworkable.

exactly what i thought when i read that. i think it's being axed because its just shitter now.

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

Wow. Have people stopped caring about the older characters altogether? Whoever they are.

Remember them this way

Tucker:
http://www.the-word-is-not-enough.com/blog/rob/images/Todd_Carty.jpg

Zammo:
http://www.grangehill.contactbox.co.uk/starfile/Lee_MacDonald2.jpg

Roland:
http://photos-222.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v129/184/103/584240222/n584240222_1460712_7440.jpg

didn't they 'move' it up north to make it more 'relevant' or something?

The full story before the publicly funded BBC decided to edit it creatively.

To Liverpool and Damon from Brookie was in it I think
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specifically:

Redmond told the Observer his colleagues have been forced to comply with a new policy at the BBC children's department which decrees that all programmes in the CBBC weekday afternoon slot must be suitable for younger children.

Although cynical old me suspects that kiddy stories about runaway puppies etc. set in one place are rather cheaper to make than Grange Hill ever was.

http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/02/06/GrangeHillCast460.jpg

"Yesterday we announced two Newsround specials tackling divorce and knife crime and we will continue to make programmes about the ups and downs of contemporary Britain."

so what about the downs?

Whatever happened to Benny Green and fat Alan?

and Doyle !

http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/02/06/GrangeHillCast460.jpg

Vampire Weekend and "friend"

was that 'trisha'?

I'm sure Phil Redmond will find another outlet for his 'happy slapping of popular female character' storyline.

Possibly also a scene where a character is chased down the corridor by token psychopathic PE teacher for playing Rihanna on a tinny mobile phone speaker.

Jimmy Corkhill wakes up and it's all been a dream. Then he sees Richard Hillman coming out of the shower...

You talk about big dog CVs: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790410/

Whatever happened to Benny Green and fat Alan?

-- Herman G. Neuname

Didn't you watch 'Whatever happened to Benny Green and Fat Alan?' presented by Justin Lee Collins on E4?

Who was the kid who drowned in the early years of Grange Hill?

So he played Mr Bronson, an alien in Doctor Who and about a million Nazis?

Jeremy
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Jeremy Irvine.

xp

Byker Grove Vs Grange Hill

you asked that here as well

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Sarah Jane Adventures is easily more expensive than this. It probably stole it's funding...

All I ever knew of Grange Hill:

SCHOOLBOY #1: So that's settled then! We organize a protest against school uniforms!

SCHOOLBOY #2: Great! We can use the banners left over from the last protest we organized, so that racism wouldn't be an issue in this school.

SCHOOLBOY #1: Good! Then that's what we'll do. I'll get Mucker, Trucker, Ducker, and Sucker. You get Spaz!

SCHOOLBOY #2: But I am Spaz!

SCHOOLBOY #1: Oh. Well, I'd better get Spaz as well then. But we've got to hurry. [They start running, but bump into a stern-looking man in a 3-piece suit]

SCHOOLBOY #2: Sorry, Mr. Liberal. We were in a hurry.

MR. LIBERAL: Hang on, you pair of young scruffy tearaways. Don't you realize the way you act is influencing millions of children to talk Cockney and be insubordinate?!

SCHOOLBOY #1: Come on, sir. Don't be silly! We're the only kids in Britain who never say fu....

wierd, Ben Elton was in my dream last night.

Byker Grove Vs Grange Hill

you said that here as well :)

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the gripper/jeremy/ gonch era - man i loved that show.

gonch. wonder what happened to him?

everything sucks ;_;

http://www.grangehillfans.co.uk/schoolreport/gonchgardner.php

^RONG - John McMahon didn't play Gonch

John Holmes (Gonch Gardener) went on to study Politics and Economics at the University of East Anglia and was the student union president. After graduating he went travelling and is now a trainee manager at the Golden Horseshoe Casino in Bayswater in London.

GONCH FAP

I remember thinking Gonch's girlfriend Mandy was way cute at the time.

I also remember the buzz of excitement that went round my school when it was discovered that Justine Dean worked in the Carphone Warehouse in Bromley.

Sorry that was from here: http://thebubbleburst.co.uk/bb.php?entry=Grange%20Hill

Oh wait his IMDB page has McMahon as an alternative name.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391897/

Brother of actress Kelda Holmes.

Was elected to Finance Officer for the Union of Students whilst at University (University of East Anglia) in keeping with his wheeler dealer image from Grange Hill.

Gonch was way the coolest of that gang, despite everyone going for Ziggy at the time.

Gonch was a ginge so not cool.

Dude kept a donkey in the school grounds. What have you done?

fair point

ziggy was a fucking prick, gonch was such the coolest.

A where are they now
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91248-1304382,00.html

...written by someone who watched that Justin Lee Collins thing

Asher D is also correct then. If this was a pub quiz I'd be throwing a strop right now.

He went on to play Andy Phillips in BBC1's Grange Hill in 1997

Doesn't count. Grange Hill was finished years before that in my mind :)

Ok Matt DC gets a point but if he doesn't stop growling into his pint he can run next week's quiz himself!

LLAyton, yeah I remember one of those "Before they were famous" things..

she won't talk about it

Anthony Costa is dude from Blue. Have just checked, and imdb sez he was in Grange Hill.

whereas imdb sez Lindy Layton wasn't. FITE!

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/31/56/23405631.jpg

RIP Big sausage, heaven needed a fry-up

imdb is shite

so is Clyde1 (where I got useless piece of half-trivia)

Also, Naomi Campbell was definitely in Grange Hill in the eighties and that's not on imdb. imDUMBBELL more like!

What I don't understand about this final series of "Grange Hill" is that the BBC say they are concentrating on the activities of Year 6. Now, Year 6 is the top juniors in primary school, and Grange Hill is a secondary school, so how are they going to do that then?

English surgeon woman from ER was school bully Jill Harcourt in Grange Hill!
http://www.nbc.com/ER/images/wherearetheynow/alex_kingston.jpg

wasn't emma bunton in grange hill v quickly. i know she was in stenders,but poss GH too?

She was a teenage hooker on The Bill, I think.

Every time this thread goes to the top of the page I think Grant Hill has died.

In a bid to bring Grange Hill up-to-date and make it less London-centric, production was moved from Elstree in north-west London to Liverpool in 2003 - although the school's fictional location remained a comprehensive in the capital.

Eh?

im guessing they are focusing on younger kids (which redmond doesnt approve of) cos if they were to realistically focus on teenagers, then the programme would be too hardcore for its 5pm slot. which is a fair point but this seems like the bbc taking more stupid desperate measures and exchanging things that actually have (had?) some worth in them for something that will probably be horrendous.

lol at perpetua deleting his facebook photo

just send him one of you

Don't forget Sheila Chandra of "Ever so Lonely" and thusly of American Beauty soundtrack fame.

Last episode tonight, with special guest Todd Carty.

I might finish early just to watch this!

thought he died of AIDS?

I imagine it'll be about as thrilling as the last edition of TOTP with special guest Jimmy Savile was.

has this not finished yet?

i'm just saying no.

When this started, I was at school. Did not want. Spend all day at school, then watch the same thing again on TV? No.

And in any case, for once I'm with Ben Elton with regard this one (cf: "Young Ones" sketch insert)

loved Grange Hill during last few years at primary school. as soon as i started secondary school it seemed terrible.

Thread needs more Youtube clips.

And in any case, for once I'm with Ben Elton with regard this one (cf: "Young Ones" sketch insert)

remind me?

"we must be the only schoolkids in Britain who don't say f---"

"Mr Liberal"

xpost yep, that one.

Of course Grange Hill no longer reflects the lives of english children today, probably because just about every school in the country is awash with immigrants who can barely speak a word of english.

A sad day indeed.

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They should re do it in Polish so that it's relevent to schoolchildren today!

Good Man The Dan, Killinaskully

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Britain is a terrible man for the gutter as immigrants lunge at society with a giant sausage on fork

thought he died of AIDS?

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Oh what a fucking surprise, DG bringing more callous disregard for the tragically dead. ILX3 needs a "Suggest Karmic AIDS" button.

It almost made me cry.

oh shit i forgot. lol.

there was a high school dance, an unxploded ww2 bomb, fat kid dancing with the pretty girl. Tucker came back to tell Tugger to stay in school. They played Sigor Ros at the end. I kept turning over to Deal or No Deal, some old guy dealt at £15,000, but he had the £250,000 box.

It's astounding how comment threads on the BBC site on ANY SUBJECT WHATSOEVER can be plunged into a maelstrom of paranoid anti-immigration rants.

Tucker
Tugger

you're joking. there wasn't really a "tugger", was there?

i had to google quite hard to find he's actually "togger".

"tugger" is so much better.

Spin-off series Tugger's Lug (or possibly Togger's Log) just around the corner

It didn't take them long to forget about it did it...

Your search for "grange hill" returned no results from the BBC.

also, my own tribute to the show..

http://www.mullsports.com/images/grangehill.jpg

Did "Tugger" have that Extra Ounce Of Courage and stay in school?

Presumably this is on the iPlayer right?

i'm sure it will, the Tucker clip was already on last night.

"The country is in melt down and we are discussing Grange Hill, excellent. Ray Statham, London"

Oh, just shut up. It's a discussion forum, does it matter what's discussed? Do you think that you having a bitter whinge makes any difference what so ever?

Oh, and if you think the country is in "melt down", I suggest you read some stories from the rest of the world before you make any further overly dramatic and pointless statements. Some people...

James Robson, Wick, United Kingdom

My god, the most recommended post on a HYS topic is actually a sensible one.

opps! Yeah, I noticed it was actually Togger this morning.

I remember Tucker's Luck being filmed in Acton.