Now it's Grange Hill - the movie

[Shotgunjim]

I cannot beleive this.... shocking.

TV editor Peter Grant discovers why Phil Redmond is putting his class act on the big screen

Liverpool Echo


DIM the lights, roll the credits. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Grange Hill - The Movie.

Professor Phil Redmond certainly knows all about education, education, education. He also knows a thing or two about entertainment - and is clearly relishing his latest project.

Since selling his Childwall-based Mersey TV company to all3 media last June, there has been much speculation about what Phil's plans might be.

Now the ECHO can exclusively reveal that Phil is developing Grange Hill - The Movie, as the project is currently called.

In June this year, series 30 of Grange Hill starts shooting for the BBC for transmission next year.

And Phil has decided that, apart from the series, the film is another way to develop the most famous school 'brand' in the country.

The film will be the first production from his own company merseyfilm.

Sitting in the Radisson SAS hotel, looking suitably relaxed, Phil couldn't be happier.

"I have been thinking about the idea for two years," he explains.

"I am writing the script now and I should be ready to start shooting in Spring 2007 for an Autumn release that year.

[baronvon]

never going to work !

THE BARON

[BertRoot]

What a helmet. Someone coax Redmond down. He is way above his station now. You would have to be a balloon to back this so doubt if it will fly.