[pressgang] Press Gang article on Warped Factor

Dipskit Comedy dipskitcomedy at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 07:48:22 GMT 2022


Hi all

I agree it’s a good read that recognises the show portrayed kids as real people/didnt dumb things down.

The bit that niggles me is calling the Junior Gazette the school newspaper, which it never was.

Claire

> On 16 Jan 2022, at 07:19, Matt Saunders <matts at yoyo.org> wrote:
> 
> Thought you might enjoy this read which I found today:
> 
> http://www.warpedfactor.com/2022/01/looking-back-at-press-gang.html?m=1
> 
> It's a nice retrospective which I enjoyed reading - apart from the
> niggling comparison with Grange Hill (another great show) and point
> where it calls Press Gang "a teen soap".  Maybe I'm being snobby by not
> liking that moniker - but I feel that label massively diminishes PG's
> actual ethos and impact.
> 
> A great article nonetheless. :-)
> 
> 
> Matt.
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