"Coronation Street Live (2000 episode) Coronation Street Live is a live episode of the British soap opera ""Coronation Street"" which was broadcast on Friday 8 December 2000 as part of the show's 40th anniversary celebrations. The episode was an hour long and aired at 8:00pm, an hour after a repeat of the with an introduction by William Roache from the soap's outdoor set where last minute preparations for the live episode were under way. The episode was number 4945 in the series and was the first live edition to be broadcast since Episode 17, which aired on 3 February 1961."
"Episode 1 (Coronation Street) The first episode of the British television soap opera ""Coronation Street"" was broadcast live on the 9 December 1960, it was broadcast in black-and-white. Episode 2 was video taped shortly after the airing. The series first introduces Florrie Lindley (Betty Alberge), who has bought up the local Corner Shop from Elsie Lappin (Maudie Edwards), who has now retired after working there for many years. Elsie warns Florrie about the residents and stays around to show her the tricks of the trade. At No. 11, Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) berates her 18-year-old son Dennis (Philip Lowrie), who"
"These include Corrie Controversies, The Stars Of Coronation Street; 50 Years, 50 Classic Characters; The First Colour Episode and the 40th anniversary live episode from 2000. Episode 1 (Coronation Street) The first episode of the British television soap opera ""Coronation Street"" was broadcast live on the 9 December 1960, it was broadcast in black-and-white. Episode 2 was video taped shortly after the airing. The series first introduces Florrie Lindley (Betty Alberge), who has bought up the local Corner Shop from Elsie Lappin (Maudie Edwards), who has now retired after working there for many years. Elsie warns Florrie about the residents"
"2002, at which stage the episodes were from late 1989. By the time of the channel's closure in 2006, the repeats had reached February 1997. In addition to this, ""specials"" were broadcast on Saturday afternoons in the early years of the channel with several episodes based on a particular theme or character(s) were shown. The latest episode shown in these specials was from 1991. In addition, on 27 and 28 December 2003, several Christmas Day editions of the show were broadcast. From 23 July 2009 ""Coronation Street"" started to be broadcast in five instalments a week, at 7:30 and 8:30"
"channel, ""Coronation Street"" could not be broadcast. An omnibus is also shown on weekends. The show was first aired in 1978, beginning with episodes from 1976. Ireland eventually caught up with the current UK episodes in 1983. Until 1992 it was broadcast on RTÉ2 and from 1992 to 2001 it was broadcast on RTÉ One. In 2001 Granada TV bought 45 percent of TV3, which resulted in TV3 broadcasting series from 2001 to 2014. In 2006 ITV sold its share of the channel but TV3. TV3 continued to buy the soap until the end of 2014 when it moved to"
"pinny, hair curlers, and the ""muriel"" in her living room with three ""flying"" duck ornaments. Hilda Ogden's departure on Christmas Day 1987, remains the highest-rated episode of ""Coronation Street"" ever, with nearly 27,000,000 viewers. Stan Ogden had been killed off in 1984 following the death of actor Bernard Youens after a long illness which had restricted his appearances towards the end. Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) first appeared in 1966, before becoming a regular in 1970, and went on to become one of the most famous ""Corrie"" characters. Bet stood as the central character of the show from 1985 until departing"
"newly commissioned ""Coronation Street"" set in a fictional working class district (""Weatherfield"") of Salford. Ida was married to Frank Barlow, a postman, and had two sons, Ken and David. She was written as a calm-natured, placid character who frequently had to act as mediator between her hot-headed husband and Ken, whose upwardly-mobile aspirations were seen by Frank as a rejection of his family background. The initial commission for ""Coronation Street"" ran to 13 episodes. The first episode was transmitted on 9 December 1960 and was panned by TV critics, who predicted a short-lived ignominious fate for the programme. However the"
"Eccles fell in the canal, Maria giving birth to Liam's son and her subsequent relationship with Liam's killer Tony, Steve McDonald's (Simon Gregson) marriage to Becky Granger (Katherine Kelly) and Kevin Webster's (Michael Le Vell) affair with Molly Dobbs (Vicky Binns). On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster (Sally Dynevor) told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly. The show began broadcasting in high-definition in May 2010, and on 17 September that year, ""Coronation Street"" entered ""Guinness World Records"" as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap"
"on to become the first great 'double act' of the series, and following the series' early success, Jack and Annie's two children were introduced - Billy (Ken Farrington) and Joan (June Barry), who arrived for Joan's wedding to teacher Gordon Davies (Calvin Malone) in 1961. In 1983, a year of immense change for ""Coronation Street"", the ""Daily Mirror"" published a story claiming that Doris Speed was many years older than she had claimed. Speed collapsed on seeing the article and was quickly written out of the show to give the elderly actress time to recover. Shortly afterwards however, her home"
"in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Television in Manchester. 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 13 pilot episodes. 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. The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and wider ITV network. ""Coronation Street"" is made by Granada Television at MediaCityUK"
"""Coronation Street"" writer Kay Mellor. The same year, he and Mellor co-created the children's medical drama ""Children's Ward"", which ran for many years—Abbott regularly contributed scripts until 1992, then returned briefly to the show in 1996. In 1994, he worked as the producer on the second season of Granada's drama series ""Cracker"", about the work of a criminal psychologist played by Robbie Coltrane. The following year he switched to writing scripts for the programme and wrote several episodes. He made his first breakthrough with a programme of his own creation, the police drama serial ""Touching Evil"" in 1997. The series,"
"1961 (the sitcom ""Steptoe and Son"" on BBC One). Although ratings were actually up on the same month in 1963, Aspinall felt that ""Coronation Street"" needed a shake-up. Carol was one of several unsuspecting cast members informed by Margaret Morris that they had been fired. Nearly half the cast were axed, although some of them were granted a reprieve by H.V. Kershaw when he returned as producer in September after working on Granada's ""The Villains"". Carol was the first to depart, with Martha suffering a fatal heart attack in the Rovers snug in Tim Aspinall's inaugural episode as producer, broadcast"
"when ""Coronation Street"" began airing three times a week. In 1996, it expanded again, to air four episodes a week. ""Brookside"" premiered in 1982 with two episodes a week. In 1990 it expanded to three episodes a week. The trend was followed by ""EastEnders"" in 1994 and ""Emmerdale"" in 1997. ""Family Affairs"" debuted as a weekdaily soap in 1997, producing five episodes a week its entire run. The imported ""Neighbours"" screens as five new episodes a week. Currently, ""Coronation Street"" (which began airing two episodes on Monday nights in 2002) and ""Hollyoaks"" both produce five episodes a week, while ""EastEnders"""
"Coronation Street Coronation Street (also known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in 1902 and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII. The show airs six times a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7:30-8 pm and 8:30-9 pm. Since 2017, ten sequential classic episodes of the series from 1986 onwards have been broadcast weekly on ITV3. The programme was conceived"
"later declared a ""national treasure"" by the media and received an MBE in 1977. Annie was one of the original characters in ""Coronation Street"" when the show began in 1960. Creator Tony Warren wrote the part with Doris Speed in mind, having worked with her before when he was a young actor on radio play ""Children's Hour"". As the immaculately kept manageress of the Rovers Return Inn, Annie appeared in the very first episode, broadcast live on 9 December 1960 and in the following episode her mild-mannered husband of over twenty years Jack (Arthur Leslie) was introduced. The pair went"
"Street"" series itself when it debuted later in 1969 and Jones is often cited as the first celebrity guest on that series, although a segment with Carol Burnett was the first to actually be broadcast. He has played lead characters on television in three series. First, he appeared on the short-lived CBS police drama ""Paris,"" which aired during autumn 1979. That show was notable as the first program on which Steven Bochco served as executive producer. The second show aired on ABC between 1990 and 1992, the first season being titled ""Gabriel's Fire"" and the second (after a format revision)"
"credited Elton with the fate of the show, saying that ""Coronation Street"" would never have seen the light of day without Elton's ""dogged determination"". When BBC Four aired a movie in 2010 dramatizing the creation of the show, ""The Road to Coronation Street"", the role of Harry Elton was played by Christian McKay. Upon returning to Canada in 1963, Elton discovered that ""Coronation Street"" was unknown to Canadians at that time. The show eventually debuted on Toronto’s CBLT in July 1966 and later became a large success in Canada, and continues to run on CBC Television to this day. With"
"basis until she was offered the chance to become a permanent cast member. Audrey made her first appearance in the episode broadcast on 16 April 1979. In 2010, Nicholls said she can't believe that she's been with ""Coronation Street"" for over 30 years. She commented ""It's the best job to have, especially in this day and age when there are no jobs anyway. Everybody wants to be in it so it must have something going for it! I've been so lucky and if I think back over the years all the people have been lovely and the stories have been"
"and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running television soap opera and was listed in ""Guinness World Records"". On 23 September 2015, ""Coronation Street"" was broadcast live to mark ITV's sixtieth anniversary. Influenced by the conventions of the kitchen sink drama, ""Coronation Street"" is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth, working-class community, combined with light-hearted humour and strong characters. The show currently averages 8 million viewers per episode. The was aired on 9 December 1960 at 7 pm, and was not initially a critical success; ""Daily Mirror"" columnist"
"he decides to stay in Weatherfield to look after them. When Ken learns of this, he persuades Sinead to get an abortion. When Sinead reveals to Daniel about the abortion, he breaks up with Sinead and attacks Ken that night. Daniel is not arrested as Ken tells the police that he tripped and no one pushed him. Since 1960, ""Coronation Street"" has featured many characters whose popularity with viewers and critics has differed greatly. The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) and Annie Walker (Doris Speed) as"
"from his injuries in hospital. Ken Barlow is one of the twenty-two original ""Coronation Street"" characters devised by series creator Tony Warren. He made his debut in the soap's first episode, broadcast on 9 December 1960. While auditionees for the other twenty-one original roles were drawn from casting director Margaret Morris' contacts in the north of England, Warren spotted William Roache performing in the Granada Television play ""Marking Time"", and knew that he was the right actor to play Ken. Roache almost declined the invitation to audition: ""I wasn't interested. I had my flat in London, I was getting acting"
"She stated: ""I think these stories should be on a lot more but ""Coronation Street"" should have a whole range of characters. Most people who are running soaps are so narrow-minded, the only time they think of black characters is for stereotypical roles."" She made her first on-screen appearance on 23 March 2001, although her voice only was heard on 21 March 2001. In 2004, Sunita was part of a storyline in which she discovers she is suffering from a brain tumour and aneurysm. The story was reported in tabloids prior to airing, with the storyline showing Sunita convincing herself"
"mass audiences that ITV was getting with ""Coronation Street"". The first people to whom David Reid, then head of series and serials, turned were Julia Smith and Tony Holland, a well established producer/script editor team who had first worked together on ""Z-Cars"". The outline that Reid presented was vague: two episodes a week, 52 weeks a year. After the concept was put to them on 14 March 1983, Smith and Holland then went about putting their ideas down on paper; they decided it would be set in the East End of London. Granada Television gave Smith unrestricted access to the"
"Coronation Street) in its first two series and its general popularity as a whole, contributed to the BBC getting cold feet over the programme. A planned fourth series, scheduled for autumn 1968, was scrapped. The programme was revived in 1972, during a time when the BBC were reviving some of their more successful sitcoms from the 1960s for colour production (Steptoe and Son being an example). A contributory factor to this decision may have been that, since the ITV franchise changes of the summer of 1968, ITV had paid a lot more attention to making sitcoms, particularly those featuring, and"
"Coronation Street as everybody cheers and the car drives off. Lloyd and Andrea return a few days later to say goodbye with Steve and share one final hug. In May 2016, Lloyd rang Steve to break the news that Andrea gave birth to a baby girl. The show's producers created the role of Lloyd for Craig Charles to portray. In 2008 it was announced that producers had signed Charles up for a special three-year contract. On 28 May 2011, it was announced Charles would be leaving ""Coronation Street"" for a few months in order to film new episodes of ""Red"
"soap opera, ""EastEnders"" in 1985. Like ""Brookside"", ""EastEnders"" had a more gritty premise than ""Coronation Street"", although unlike ""Brookside"" it tended to steer clear of blue language and politicised stories. While ratings for ""Coronation Street"" remained consistent throughout the decade, ""EastEnders"" regularly obtained higher viewing figures due to its omnibus episodes shown at weekends. The ""Coronation Street"" episode broadcast on 2 January 1985 attracted 21.40 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode in the shows history based on a single showing. Subsequent episodes would achieve higher figures when the original broadcast and omnibus edition figures were combined. With prime time"
"Street"" and some of the roles were rewritten and recast. The series premiered on January 11, 1995, with 13 episodes in its first season. It was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 16, 1995. After the second season completed its run in late fall 1995, the CBC announced in February 1996 that it would not renew the series for a third season. The show's characters included Mack Fischer (Joel Bissonnette), the superintendent of the building and a recovering drug addict; Frank Pagnozzi (Pat Mastroianni), the nephew of the building's owner; Janet Beecher (Kimberly Huie), a single mother"
"and the BBC. One of Greater Manchester's most lucrative and acclaimed television exports is ""Coronation Street"", which is a televised soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional borough of Greater Manchester, inspired by life in Salford. Created by Tony Warren, ""Coronation Street"" was first broadcast on 9 December 1960, making it the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production. It has been filmed in Manchester at Granada Studios since its inception, but filming is now done at a new set at MediaCityUK. Launched in 2004 by the Guardian Media Group, Channel M is a television station that broadcast local news"
"decided to leave the soap at the end of 2003. Vincent's first appearance was shown on 12 May. Vincent is two years older than the character she plays. In an interview on 7 September 2010 with Vincent and Sacha Parkinson, both young actresses discussed their roles in the lesbian storyline, whereby, their relationship transformed from best friends to girlfriends, with the realisation of their sexuality. This storyline on ""Coronation Street"" started on 11 April 2010. On 5 November 2010 at the ""Stonewall Awards"" ceremony, ""Coronation Street"" won the new ""Broadcast of the Year"" award, in recognition of its gay storylines."
"1991. The programme led a campaign to prove the innocence of the Birmingham Six in 1985 when researcher Chris Mullin questioned the convictions; by 1991 the men had been released from prison. The classic northern working-class soap opera, ""Coronation Street,"" started a 13-week, two-episodes-a-week regional run on 9 December 1960. It is still produced at the rate of six peak-viewing episodes a week after nearly 60 years, and is the longest-running soap opera in the world. Such set-pieces as ""Siege Week"" and ""the 2010 Tram Crash"" were filmed at the studio. The company also produced gritty drama series such as"
"The Road to Coronation Street The Road to Coronation Street is a British drama first broadcast on BBC Four documenting the journey of ""Coronation Street"", the UK's longest-running television soap opera, from conception to its first transmission in December 1960. Set mainly at Granada Studios, Manchester in 1960, the 75-minute-long programme follows the true story of Tony Warren, a struggling scriptwriter who creates a vision of a television programme depicting normal life in a Salford street of terraced houses. ""The Road to Coronation Street"" was written by Daran Little, a long-time archivist on ""Coronation Street"" who became a scriptwriter. At"
"the first series on 14 March 1973. Although the first series was aired in the same timeslot as ""Coronation Street"" on ITV, consequently receiving relatively little attention, the repeats shown later in the year were much more successful. The show became a ratings hit, and after a successful 13-year run, ""Are You Being Served?"" came to an end on 1 April 1985. Of the original cast, only Frank Thornton, Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Wendy Richard and Nicholas Smith appeared in all 69 episodes of the programme's 13-year run; these five later featured in the sequel sitcom, ""Grace & Favour"" (also"
"their mouths full. To date, she has had four different roles in ""Coronation Street"". In 1997, she played a nursing colleague of regular character Martin Platt and appeared in five episodes in 2005 as a police family liaison officer. She was cast as the character Beth Tinker, a former model and ex-girlfriend of Steve McDonald, in two episodes of the serial which aired in August 2011. The production team later brought Tinker back as a permanent character. For her role as Beth, George has been nominated as Best Newcomer in the 2012 annual ""TV Choice"" Awards. The actress stated she"