The pair are set to produce the comeback series, titled Byker ... "17 years after it closed its doors for the final time, Byker Grove is opening them up again." Related: Ant McPartlin opens ...

If you grew up in the 1990s, a staple of your Tuesday and Thursday teatime diet along with your chips and beans, would have been Geordie TV series ... Gillespie was one of Byker Grove's biggest ...

Set in Newcastle, Byker Grove ran between 1989 and 2006 and launched several actors' careers, including PJ and Duncan - now Ant and Dec, as well as Donna Air and Jill Halfpenny.