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Declan Donnelly and Ant McPartlin primitively recovered fame arsenic PJ and Duncan connected Byker Grove, which started connected BBC1 successful 1989
TV bid Byker Grove is to marque a comeback - produced by erstwhile stars Ant and Dec.
The children's bid - acceptable successful Newcastle - aired connected the BBC from 1989 to 2006 and focused connected the lives of youngsters who attended the younker nine of the aforesaid name.
It saw Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly find fame arsenic PJ and Duncan.
The pair, who volition beryllium enforcement producers connected the reboot, said they were "beyond excited".
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The programme - to beryllium fixed the shorter rubric of Byker - volition beryllium aimed "at a primetime audience" and "engage with a caller procreation of teenagers navigating the antithetic challenges faced by young adults today", accumulation institution Fulwell 73 said.
It has not been announced if the amusement - which besides launched the careers of Donna Air, Jill Halfpenny and Andrew Hayden-Smith - volition beryllium broadcast connected the BBC oregon erstwhile filming volition begin.
The archetypal filming determination of "The Grove" was Benwell Towers successful Newcastle
Donnelly said it would "help radiance a spotlight connected the North East and the endowment the portion has to connection some successful beforehand of the camera and down it".
"Byker Grove volition ever beryllium precise peculiar to america arsenic the amusement which gave america our break, truthful we are beyond excited," helium said.
"We are looking guardant to bringing this caller incarnation to a full caller procreation arsenic good arsenic those who retrieve it arsenic fondly arsenic we do."
The archetypal filming determination of "The Grove" was Benwell Towers successful Newcastle.
Byker Grove - the facts
- Created by Andrea Wonfor and Adele Rose, who was a writer connected Coronation Street
- First occurrence shown connected 8 November 1989
- Set successful Newcastle, and with accents seldom heard connected television, it was an instant hit
- Theme tune written by Kane Gang
- Lasted for 18 series, ending successful 2006
- Launched the careers of Ant and Dec, Jill Halfpenny, Andrew Hayden-Smith and Donna Air among others
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Image caption,Ant and Dec volition enactment arsenic enforcement producers connected the rebooted series
McPartlin - whose quality PJ famously was accidentally blinded during a paintball combat successful 1 occurrence - added the brace "owe specified a batch to Byker Grove and the North East truthful we can't hold to commencement moving to bring this iconic bid backmost to life".
"Already talking characters and storylines has america each buzzing astatine the possibilities ahead," helium added.
The bid volition beryllium made by North East-based Fulwell 73 - which was down Friends: The Reunion, The Kardashians and Gavin and Stacey: Christmas Special - on with Ant and Dec's Mitre Studios, which produces Saturday Night Takeaway.
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