Byker Grove is being placed on ITVX – nearly 20 years after the final episode aired.
Followers of the hit ’90s and 2000s teen drama – which adopted the lives and relationships of younger people who find themselves members of a youth membership in Byker, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne – will be capable to relive their childhood as traditional episodes are being put onto the broadcaster’s streaming platform, in addition to STV Participant.
Regardless of the present initially being aired on BBC One, ITV and STV have joined forces with Mire Studios, the manufacturing firm created by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, each 49 – who performed PJ and Duncan in Byker Grove – to carry again the sequence.
The episodes – similar to that includes the primary homosexual kiss on UK youngsters’s TV, when character Noddy Fishwick (Brett Adams) kissed shut buddy Gary Hendrix (George Trotter) in the back of a cinema in 1994 – will start to air in a while in 2025.
In addition to the primary homosexual kiss, Byker Grove – which started in 1989 and led to 2006 – addressed social points, together with drug habit, baby abuse, homophobia and abortion.
Different profitable celebrities, whose careers have been launched due to the programme, embrace Jill Halfpenny, 49, and Donna Air, 45.
Richard Williams, STV’s Managing Director, Viewers: Video and Know-how, stated: “Simply if you thought the ’90s revival may need been slowing down, we’ve solely gone and introduced again one of many seminal TV reveals of the last decade.
“Byker Grove was an integral a part of so many British childhoods and we’re delighted that these authentic viewers – now of a barely extra mature classic – can relive all of the nostalgic motion on STV Participant. And if any Gen Z viewers wish to discover out who actually began the dishevelled trousers development, look no additional than Byker Grove!”
Craig Morris, Managing Editor, ITV Channels and ITVX, added: “We’re so excited to carry this iconic coming-of-age sequence to ITVX, marking the primary TV appearances of two ITV stalwarts. Relive all the nice moments with us later this 12 months.”
Ed Sleeman, MD at Mitre Studios commented: “We’re delighted to be teaming up with ITVX and STV Participant to present a brand new era of viewers the chance to look at this iconic sequence from the beginning and to see the place all of it started for Ant and Dec.”
