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Genre. Soap opera. Created by. Tony Warren. Starring. Present cast. Former cast. Theme music composer. Eric Spear. Opening theme"Coronation Street theme"Ending theme"Coronation Street theme"Country of origin. United Kingdom. No. Production. Executive producer(s)Various(currently Kieran Roberts)Producer(s)Various(currently Kate Oates)Location(s)Granada Studios, Manchester(1.

Media. City, Trafford Wharf (2. Camera setup. Videotape; Multiple- camera.

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Running time. 30 minutes. Production company(s)Granada Television(1.

Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on. Directed by Rob Hedden. With Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen. A boatful of graduating high school students bound for Manhattan. Plot outline, cast and crew information, and user comments.

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Albion Market. The Road to Coronation Street. The Corrie Years (2. External links. Websitewww. Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a Britishsoap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1. The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner- city Salford,[2] its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Returnpub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in 1.

King Edward VII. The show typically airs six times a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7: 3. Christmas and New Year.[3] The programme was conceived in 1.

Tony Warren at Granada Television in Manchester.[4] Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 1. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most- watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.[5] The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.

Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at Media. City Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 1. 7 September 2. TV soap opera in production.[6] On 2.

September 2. 01. 5, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 6. Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down- to- earth, working- class community, combined with light- hearted humour and strong characters.[8]History[edit]The first episode was aired on 9 December 1. Daily Mirror columnist Ken Irwin claimed the series would only last three weeks. Granada Television had commissioned only 1.

Despite the criticism, viewers were immediately drawn into the serial, won over by Coronation Street's 'ordinary' characters.[1. The programme also made use of Northern English language and dialect; affectionate local terms like "eh, chuck?", "nowt" (, from nought, meaning nothing), and "by 'eck!" became widely heard on British television for the first time.[1. Ken Barlow in the first episode of Coronation Street, 1. Early episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow (William Roache), who had won a place at university, and thus found his working- class background something of an embarrassment.[1.

The character was one of the few to have experienced life 'outside' of Coronation Street. In some ways this predicts the growth of globalisation, and the decline of similar communities. In an episode from 1. Barlow declares: "You can't go on just thinking about your own street these days. We're living with people on the other side of the world. There's more to worry about than Elsie Tanner and her boyfriends."[1. Roache is the only remaining member of the original cast, which makes him the longest- serving actor in Coronation Street, and in British and global soap history.

At the centre of many early stories, there was Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, and her friends: timid Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant), and bespectacled Martha Longhurst (Lynne Carol). The trio were likened to the Greek chorus, and the three witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, as they would sit in the snug bar of the Rovers Return, passing judgement over family, neighbours and frequently each other.[1. Headstrong Ena often clashed with Elsie Tanner, whom she believed espoused a dauntlessly loose set of morals. Elsie resented Ena's interference and gossip, which most of the time had little basis in reality. In April 1. 96. 1, Jed Stone made his first appearance and returned the following year in 1. Watch Viceroy`S House Online Free HD here. He left in 1. 96.

He left again and then returned 4. In March 1. 96. 1, Coronation Street reached No.

Earlier in 1. 96. Television Audience Measurement (TAM) showed that 7. Corrie, and by 1. December 1. 96. 4, at 2.

Storylines throughout the decade included: a mystery poison- pen letter received by Elsie Tanner, the 1. Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock, the death of Martha Longhurst in 1. Barlow twins in 1. Elsie Tanner's wedding to Steve Tanner and a train crashing from the viaduct (both in 1.

Steve Tanner in 1. In spite of rising popularity with viewers, Coronation Street was criticised by some for its outdated portrayal of the urban working class, and its representation of a community that was a nostalgic fantasy.[1. After the first episode in 1. Daily Mirror printed: "The programme is doomed from the outset .. For there is little reality in this new serial, which apparently, we have to suffer twice a week."[1. By 1. 96. 7, critics were suggesting that the programme no longer reflected life in 1.

Britain, but reflected how life was in the 1. Watch Decay Online on this page. Granada hurried to update the programme, with the hope of introducing more issue- driven stories, including Lucille Hewitt becoming addicted to drugs, Jerry Booth being in a storyline about homosexuality, Emily Nugent having an out of wedlock child, and introducing a black family, but all of these ideas were dropped for fear of upsetting viewers.[2.

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1. When Arthur Leslie died suddenly in 1. Rovers' landlord Jack Walker, died with him.[2. Anne Reid quit as Valerie Barlow, and was killed off in 1. Ratings reached a low of eight million in February 1.

Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson (Ena Sharples) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed (Annie Walker) took two months' leave due to bereavement.[2. The audience of ITV's other flagship soap opera Crossroads increased markedly at this time, as its established cast, such as Meg Richardson (Noele Gordon), grew in popularity.[2. These sudden departures forced the writing team to quickly develop characters who had previously stood in the background. The roles of Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear), Ivy Tilsley (Lynne Perrie), Deirdre Hunt (Anne Kirkbride), Rita Littlewood (Barbara Knox), and Mavis Riley (Thelma Barlow) were built up between 1.

Gail Potter (Helen Worth), Blanche Hunt (Patricia Cutts, Maggie Jones), and Vera Duckworth (Elizabeth Dawn) first appearing in 1. These characters would remain at the centre of the programme for many years.[2. Comic storylines had been popular in the series in the 1. These were re- introduced by new producer Bill Podmore who joined the series in 1.

He had worked on Granada comedy productions prior to his appointment.[2. Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats (Geoffrey Hughes), Fred Gee (Fred Feast), and Jack Duckworth (William Tarmey) all making their first appearances during the decade. In 1. 97. 6, Pat Phoenix returned to her role as Elsie Tanner and, after a spate of ill health, Violet Carson returned on a more regular basis as Ena.[2.