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Article: SCHOOL'S OUT! Redmond blames BBC for watering down the hard-hitting show that kept us It's the end of an era as school drama Grange Hill is axed after 30 years. TV Editor Peter Grant looks back at the show that became an institution.(News)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 7, 2008
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Byline: Peter Grant
GRANGE Hill will close its famous doors this summer after its last-ever term.
The part drama, part soap has been axed.
Made by Liverpool company Lime Pictures, who took it over from Phil Redmond's Mersey TV three years ago it has left its mark.
A final school report however sealed its fate. Children's BBC yesterday confirmed their list of new programmes for the future.
And Grange Hill was NOT part of its plans.
Its creator Redmond, who had the original idea in 1975 and sold it to the BBC three years ...