Who is the mystery writer providing TV reviews for the paper and why is he so hard to meet?
This BAFTA-award-winning teen drama centres on the trials and tribulations of those running a school newspaper, the Junior Gazette, and launched the careers of many of its young stars. Julia Sawalha plays the bossy editor Lynda who has a love-hate relationship with the rebellious American Spike (Dexter Fletcher), while Lee Ross stars as unlucky-in-love assistant editor Kenny and Paul Reynolds as the over-bearing Thatcherite Colin, who is in charge of advertising and finances. Despite its sharp humour, the show also tackles serious issues such as solvent misuse and child abuse. (Summary courtesy ITV.com.) Series 1 contains the first twelve episodes of Press Gang.
The race for a grabber story for the front page blinds Lynda to the fact that maybe class clown Spike Thomson knows a thing or two about journalism.
Lynda has her big story for the first edition, and it causes quite an uproar.
Adrian Edmondson guests as a hopeless teacher suffering a crisis of confidence. Star reporter Sarah Jackson sets out to help.
When the printers strike, the Junior Gazette has only three hours to write the next edition ... before the news has even happened!
An unusually snappy Lynda drafts Spike, Kenny, and Tiddler for late duty while Colin struggles to meet his appointment with the richest man in town.
Who is the mystery writer providing TV reviews for the paper and why is he so hard to meet?
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Who keeps drawing chalk outlines on the ground beneath the Highpoint Flats, and why? Assistant Editor Kenny is determined to find out.
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Kenny has found out Susie’s secret, and gives the Gazette its biggest campaign yet.
“The Phone Ranger” wants an interview with Lynda, while the Headmaster wants to suspend publication of the paper during exams.
Why is the newsroom full of pigeons, and does Bobby Tweed have anything to do with the thefts around school?
How can two days be so different? Comedy one day and tragedy the next... A student attempts to blackmail his way onto the writing staff, but Lynda is having none of it.
With Lynda gone, the race is on for a new editor. Kenny has the experience and Colin has a few dirty tricks up his sleeve, but Spike's determined to bring Lynda back.
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