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TIL that Byker Grove, a relatively grounded British teen drama set in a youth club which aired from 1989 to 2006, ended with all the characters becoming aware they were in a TV show with no free will of their own, fending off a T.Rex attack and ultimately being blasted into a void of nothingness.

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