On 6 February 2008, the BBC announced Grange Hill was to be axed after exactly 30 years. The announcement was made by CBBC controller Anne Gilchrist just two days before the show's official 30th birthday. Just a few weeks earlier Phil Redmond said the programme had been robbed of its original purpose and should be scrapped.[12]
The final series is being shown on BBC1 on Mondays at 4:35pm, with a Saturday repeat at 4pm on the CBBC Channel
