Monday 9 March 2015

Destiny In Quite A Similar Way?

Tonight, nine years to the day since the broadcast of the first ever episode, we shall bid goodbye to Waterloo Road, the public school BBC's preposterous depiction of life in a comprehensive school as characterised more than anything by pyromania.

Such a school is favoured by Michael Gove and David Cameron as parents, although it will be interesting to see whether their sons are sent to such Bullingdon-precluding institutions.

The BBC had a hit early evening drama set in a comp in an old Pennine mill town. It turned that into something permanently one step away from an alien abduction or the return of a dead character. Why?

It also kept up the time-honoured practice of having early teenage characters played by actors who were in their late teens, and late teenage characters played by actors who were well into their twenties. Again, why?

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