Catford Grove

Catford Grove (acronymised as 'CG' or by its project code 'CAT') is a Writers Express forum serial drama originally created by the production company Red Lion Pictures (RLP). It is based on the 2011 serial drama 'The Avenue', which is in effect an earlier version of Catford Grove. 'The Avenue' ran for 167 episodes from 19th December 2011-19th December 2016 - exactly five years (although its demise was not announced until a year later, 19th December 2017). This makes it the third most volumous project on WX in terms of episodes, behind(Chloe project) These Days 1.0 (173 episodes) and unbeaten title holder Uncertain Nights (270 episodes).
In January 2017, RLP released a statement on Writers Express (known as Lit in 2018) announcing that the project was to 'take an extended break'. However, in a new statement posted on 19th December 2017 - the project's sixth anniversary, and a year to the day since the most recent episode was published - it was revealed that the project had been cancelled. This decision was in part due to Chloe and Ross feeling that five years to the day was a good point to draw a line, but also because a brand new version of the project had been in discussion and development for some time, beginning in 2016. Hence, RLP wanted to put the project on ice to make a final decision about whether to continue with the then current version, or start afresh. In the end they chose to do the latter.
A couple of pilot runs of a new version of 'The Avenue' were published in 2018 and 2019, but ultimately these did not work out. Nevertheless, discussion and development of a new version had been ongoing until July 2021, when Chloe took the decision to pull out of the project altogether, presumably permanently. Chloe and Ross ultimately decided that they had different visions of the project, and that ultimately they could not find a creatively amicable way forward working on it together. As such, Ross launched his own new version later that year, called 'Catford Grove', with Chloe's blessing. In addition, Chloe acts as a consultant on the project, and provides its graphics and visual design.
After a false start with a one-hour episode on 19th December 2021 (The Avenue's 10th anniversary), the project began proper with two half-hour installments, both published on 30th January 2022. As of 30th January 2022, 2 episodes of the project have been published.
==The Avenue (2011-16)==
* See The Avenue
==The Avenue 2.0: Pilot Run 1 (2018-19)==
The Avenue 2.0: Pilot Run was initially an offical relaunch. In this version, episodes aired five times a week in AVE time, with a half-hour run time. However, only seven episodes were ever aired, between September 2018 and May 2019. No more news was heard about the project until 31st August 2019, when RLP released a feature explaining that The Avenue 2.0 had been retroactively rebranded as a pilot run. This is because an all-new version was to launch the following day, 1st September 2019. TA2.0:PR featured several new characters, such as siblings Greg and Lexi Learner, and Feliks Nowak, who were discarded for the contemporary version. The Irish O'Reilly family, a long-running family in 1.0, initially appared in a new form in the TA2.0:PR, but not in the the contemporary version. Early episodes of the contemporary version feature several scenes readapted, or with modified continuity, from TA2.0:PR.
==The Avenue 2.0: Pilot Run 2 (2019)==
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==Title Card==
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==Theme Tune==
The theme tune to Catford Grove is not one of those used in The Avenue. It is an instrumental cover version of the song 'When We Were Young' by The Killers (2006). RLP agreed on using a 'warm, jangly and lively' cover version as they felt the original version of this song was 'too rocky'. This song was also used in the 2.0 pilot run.
==Catford Grove==
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==Births, Marriages & Deaths==
To date there have been no births, marriages or deaths in Catford Grove.
==Locations==
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==Current Cast (alphabetical order, forename first)==
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