Many commentators said the once-daring series, which featured teenage drug-taking and pregnancy, had lost its edge. "Grange Hill has fallen out of favour at the BBC, which has fallen out of love with teenagers," writes The Daily Telegraph's TV editor Neil Midgley. "On BBC One in the afternoons, everything now has to appeal to an eight-year-old."
But help is at hand. The Sun has launched a Save Grange Hill campaign. "If anything, Grange Hill is more relevant today than ever," says the paper. "Not a week goes by without tales of youth gang culture hogging the headlines. And where do these gangs start their lives? In schools."
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