Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond has confirmed previous characters from the unique collection shall be returning for the upcoming film. 

Showing on in the present day’s BBC Breakfast, Redmond did, nonetheless, inform presenters Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt that he has the unenviable job of deciding which acquainted faces can be returning as grown ups within the movie adaptation. 

Earlier within the programme, Zammo McGuire actor Lee Macdonald was very coy when requested if he’d been approached for the reboot, with Naga revealing that off-camera Phil was ‘holding his head in his palms’.

‘Lesson discovered, don't belief these actors,’ teased Naga. 

Phil defined: ‘I’ve received to sit down in a room and decide who will and who won't and that’s going to be actually troublesome. 

‘We received’t be capable of convey again all of them however it’s going to be enjoyable.’

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Who shall be returning for the Grange Hill film? (Image: BBC)

Regardless, we've got a short time to attend as manufacturing hasn’t even began and auditions are booked in for later this yr. 

Urging very excited followers to relax, Phil mentioned: ‘We’ve solely simply began working by the script and we go into manufacturing this yr for launch subsequent yr so if anybody needs to type an orderly queue within the casting line, they will simply wait a few months that will be nice.’

Grange Hill started in 1978, tacking an unlimited vary of hard-hitting storylines, which was a primary in youngsters’s tv. 

After 30 years of frequently airing, it got here to an finish however now Redmond thinks there's greater than sufficient to cowl in its return. 

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Grange Hill captured the truth of faculty like by no means earlier than (Image: BBC)

‘We’ve been by 4 school-rebuilding programmes in my lifetime, however it’s not about bricks and mortar, it’s about getting the very best out of each pupil,’ he instructed Guardian. 

‘How will ripping colleges out of communities clear up something? Or making catchment areas so massive that children need to journey miles to be with their mates? That’s the thesis of the film: it’s determined the college is costing an excessive amount of to keep up so it ought to be knocked down, the land offered and proceeds used to construct a brand new one and replenish native coffers.

‘I’ve all the time had a strand about children having the identical feelings and fears, aspirations and phobias as everyone else. They solely lack the life expertise. Quite than riots within the eating corridor, this time their voices are heard by social media, a rebuttal unit run by the college geek in opposition to council propaganda.’