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Article: BBC axes Grange Hill after creator says taboo-breaking show has 'lost its purpose'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 7, 2008
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The BBC has announced that it is dropping the school drama Grange
Hill from the schedules after 30 years on British television
screens. The last episodes of the cult series that broke taboos on
teenage pregnancy, violence and drug-taking with its uncompromising
portrayal of life in a London comprehensive school will be broadcast
at the end of this year.
The decision not to commission a further series comes barely a
month after the programme's creator, Phil Redmond, said that the
edgy children's drama had lost its purpose.
Anne Gilchrist, the controller of Children's BBC (CBBC), said
that axing Grange Hill was part of a wider attempt to make the BBC
more accurately reflect children's lives ...