Ant and Dec are eager to advertise the “subsequent technology of younger expertise” after they deliver again ‘Byker Grove’.
The ‘I am A Superstar… Get Me Out Of Right here!’ co-hosts revealed in July they’re planning to reboot the Nineteen Nineties BBC present, on which they made their title as characters PJ and Duncan, and they’re hoping to assist upcoming actors and children who need to forge a profession behind the digicam.
Talking on ‘Lorraine’, Dec mentioned: “We’re attempting to deliver again ‘Byker Grove’ and convey within the subsequent technology of younger expertise, each in entrance of and behind the digicam, as much as the North East.
“It is actually thrilling.”
The pair beforehand admitted they need to open the youngsters’s present as much as a “entire new viewers”, in addition to those that are “are sufficiently old to recollect it so fondly”.
In a video asserting the information in July, Dec mentioned: “17 years after it closed its doorways for the ultimate time, Byker Grove is opening them up once more.
“Now, it is clearly a present very near our hearts, the present which gave us our breaks, so we could not be extra excited that we’ll be giving it a brand new lease of life.
“As soon as once more, it is going to comply with a brand new technology of younger individuals and their households as they attempt to navigate the challenges they face in the present day within the 2020s.”
Dec additionally questioned whether or not or not PJ and Duncan will make a cameo look at The Grove, however Ant wasn’t so certain.
He quipped: “I would not have thought so. I reckon PJ now, proper, is acting at Wembley Stadium together with his platinum promoting rap album.”
Dec quipped: “As you possibly can most likely inform, storyline improvement is at a really early stage.”