The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.
- Won 10 BAFTA Awards
- 243 wins & 286 nominations total
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- TriviaOn Friday April 8 2005, seventeen million viewers watched episode 5,998, in which Ken Barlow remarried ex-wife Deirdre Rachid. This was four million more than had watched the real-life Royal Wedding between H.M. King Charles III and Camilla Parker-Bowles earlier that day. The fictional pair had also been the "other" big wedding event in July 1981, two days before then-Prince Charles married his first wife, Lady Diana Spencer (Princess Diana).
- GoofsThe night before Steve and Karen's wedding after Steve decides to let his mum invite Ken and Deidre, she walks out the front door, straight past the Barlows. Then, after they finish their dialog about Tracy, she comes out of the toilet.
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Eileen Grimshaw: Tracy Barlow! I mean, even her initials are a killer disease!
- ConnectionsEdited from Coronation Street: First Dry Run (1960)
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Sad decline
I once rated this legendary soap as the best drama series ever made! It had everything...great characters, superb storylines, lots of laughs intermingled with some hard hitting and serious plots. A wonderful programme, it was peerless, no other series came close. It was quite easily a 10/10.
Then the slow decline started from the late 90s. It remained a good show though, despite losing its unequalled dominance...but the rot set in deeper and deeper until it is now just another British soap that is using murder and mayhem to shock us into watching. Gone is the comedy that set it apart from other soaps. Gone are most of the legendary characters. Gone is the superb acting where just a raise of the eyebrows told us all we needed to know. It has been replaced with shouty, unpleasant characters, serial killings galore, forced and unfunny "comedy" lines and unbelievable nonsensical plots.
They maintain some decent performances with a few of the characters from the old days still there flying the flag for this iconic show. But I dread what the show will become when the very last one of them finally leaves. With regret, it will probably die a natural death and be removed from our screens.
That would be a sad day indeed.
Then the slow decline started from the late 90s. It remained a good show though, despite losing its unequalled dominance...but the rot set in deeper and deeper until it is now just another British soap that is using murder and mayhem to shock us into watching. Gone is the comedy that set it apart from other soaps. Gone are most of the legendary characters. Gone is the superb acting where just a raise of the eyebrows told us all we needed to know. It has been replaced with shouty, unpleasant characters, serial killings galore, forced and unfunny "comedy" lines and unbelievable nonsensical plots.
They maintain some decent performances with a few of the characters from the old days still there flying the flag for this iconic show. But I dread what the show will become when the very last one of them finally leaves. With regret, it will probably die a natural death and be removed from our screens.
That would be a sad day indeed.
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- Victor-fitforlife
- Feb 6, 2022
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