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Coronation Street



For 48 years, Coronation Street has remained at the centre of ITV's prime time schedule. The programme is currently shown in five episodes, over three evenings a week on the ITV Network.

From Friday 9 December 1960 until Friday 3 March 1961, the programme was shown in two episodes broadcast Wednesday and Friday at 19.00.[3] Schedules were changed and from Monday 6 March 1961 until Wednesday 18 October 1989, the programme was shown in two episodes broadcast Monday and Wednesday at 19.30.[3] The third weekly episode was introduced on Friday 20 October 1989, broadcast at 19.30.[88]

Aside from Granada, the programme originally appeared on the following stations of the ITV network:

From Episode 14 on Wednesday January 25, 1961, Tyne Tees Television broadcast the programme. That left ATV in the Midlands as the only ITV station not carrying the show. When they decided to broadcast the programme, national transmission was changed from Wednesday and Friday at 19.00 to Monday and Wednesday at 19.30 and the programme became fully networked under this new arrangement from Episode 25 on Monday March 6, 1961.

As the ITV network grew over the next few years, the programme was transmitted by these new stations on these dates onward:

At this point, the ITV network became complete and the programme was broadcast almost continuously across the country at 19.30 on Monday and Wednesday for the next twenty-seven years.

From Episode 2981 on Friday October 20, 1989 at 19:30, a third weekly episode was introduced and this increased to four episodes a week from Episode 4096 on Sunday November 24, 1996, again at 19:30.[89] The second Monday episode was introduced in 2002 and was broadcast at 20:30 to usher in the return of Bet Lynch.[90] The Monday 20:30 episode was used intermittently during the popular Richard Hillman story line but has become fully-scheduled since Episode 5568 on Monday August 25, 2003. Additional episodes have been aired during the weekly schedule of ITV at certain times, notably in 2004 when, between 22 November and 26 November, eight episodes were shown.[91]

Older episodes had been broadcast by satellite and cable channel Granada Plus from launch in 1996. The first episodes shown were from episode 1588 (Originally transmitted on Monday April 5, 1976) onwards. Originally listed and promoted as Classic Coronation Street, the "classic" was dropped in early 2002, at which stage the episodes were from late 1989. By the time of the channel's closure in 2004, the repeats had reached January 1994.

In addition to this, "specials" were broadcast on Saturday afternoons in the early years of the channel with several episodes based around a particular theme or character(s) were shown. The latest episode shown in these specials was from 1991. In addition, on 27 & 28 December 2003, several Christmas Day editions of the show were broadcast.

In early 2008 ITV announced that during 2008 the Sunday episode would be dropped and replaced on Fridays, thus having two half hour episodes on both Monday and Friday (at 19:30 and 20:30) and maintaining a single episode on Wednesdays (at 19:30). However there is also discussion about creating an hour-long episode on Monday instead of two separate episodes. This seems unlikely because it would conflict with rival soap Eastenders. An episode has been shown on a Sunday twice since then, but this was due to the football scheduling.

Here is the different schedule for 8 June 2008 until 30 June 2008 as Euro 2008 will be occupying some of the slots.

Schedule for ITV One

Date Start End If average week which episodes it'd be.
Sunday 8 June 2008 20:00 21:00 Monday 19:30-20:00 and 20:30-21:00
Wednesday 11 June 2008 19:30 20:00 Wednesday 19:30-20:00
Friday 13 June 2008 19:30
20:30		 20:00
21:00		 Friday 19:30-20:00 and 20:30-21:00
Sunday 15 June 2008 19:00 19:30 Monday 19:30-20:00
Monday 16 June 2008 20:00 21:00 Monday 20:30-21:00 
 Wednesday 19:30-20:00
Friday 20 June 2008 19:30
20:30		 20:30
21:00		 As Normal
Sunday 22 June 2008 19:30 20:00 Monday's first episode
Monday 23 June 2008 19:30
20:30		 20:00
21:00		 Monday's second episode, Wednesday's episode
Friday 27 June 2008 19:30
20:30		 20:00
21:00		 As normal
Sunday 29 June 2008 19:30 20:30 Both of Monday's

Schedule for ITV 2 repeats

Date Start End Day aired on ITV One
Sunday 8 June 23:00 00:00 Sunday 8 June
Monday 9 June 07:25
11:00		 09:25
13:00		 Friday 6 June
Sunday 8 June
Thursday 12 June 00:15
06:00
12:00		 00:45
06:30
12:30		 Wednesday 11 June
Saturday 14 June 00:00 01:00 Friday 13 June
Saturday 14 June
Sunday 15 June		 06:15
15:30		 08:25
18:00		 All episodes from Sunday 8 June- Friday 13 June
Monday 16 June 00:00 00:30 Sunday 15 June
Monday 16 June 07:55
11:30		 09:25
13:00		 Friday 13 June and Sunday 15 June
Monday 16 June 23:30 00:30 Monday 16 June
Tuesday 17 June 06:00
09:00
12:00		 07:00
10:00
13:00		 Monday 16 June
Saturday 21 June 00:00 01:00 Friday 20 June
Saturday 21 June 06:15 08:25 Omnibus of episodes
Sunday 22 June 23:30 00:00 Sunday 22 June

All episodes after 22 June have unknown dates and times.

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Overseas

Coronation Street is also shown in many countries worldwide. In the Republic of Ireland it is broadcast on TV3 according to the ITV schedule in the UK.

Viewers in Northern Ireland can watch Coronation Street on UTV (a regional company of ITV) and TV3, because the domestic population of Northern Ireland have access to view both the British Channels (BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4 and Five) and Irish Channels (RTÉ One, RTÉ Two, TV3 and TG4). Northern Irish viewers can see the soap opera on at the same time by tuning between UTV and TV3. Coronation Street is broadcast on TV3 approximately 2 minutes behind of its broadcast on UTV.[92]

In Canada, episodes of Coronation Street air on CBC Television. As of 2007, episodes appear on CBC about eight-and-a-half months after their UK air date. It moved from a daytime slot on CBC to prime time in 2004.[93] CBC Country Canada, a digital television service operated by CBC, broadcasts older episodes as Corrie Classics.[94] The 2002 edition of the Guinness Book of Records recognizes the 1,144 episodes sold to CBC-owned Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, TV station CBKST by Granada TV on 31 May 1971 to be the largest number of TV shows ever purchased in one transaction.

The programme started to be shown in Australia in 1963 on TCN 9 Sydney, GTV 9 Melbourne and NWS 9 Adelaide, and by 1966 Corrie was more popular in Australia than in the UK.[95] The show eventually left free-to-air television in Australia in the early 1980s, briefly returning to the Nine Network in a daytime slot during 1994-95. In 1996 Pay-TV began and Arena began screening the series in one-hour installments on Saturday and Sundays at 18:30. The series was later moved to Pay-TV channel UK.TV where it is still shown weeknights at 18:00. Episodes on UK.TV are 15 months behind the UK.[96]

The series is also currently shown in New Zealand, on Television New Zealand's TV One. In New Zealand, the show consistently rates in the top ten programmes nationally. Hour long episodes are shown at 19:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. "Coro Street catchups" are often scheduled on Wednesdays over summer to prevent falling further behind. Currently, an omnibus episode screens every Saturday afternoon, a replay screening of the preivous week's episodes. Episodes are around thirteen months behind those broadcast in the UK.[97]

Dutch broadcaster VARA showed 428 sub-titled episodes on Netherlands TV between 1967 and 1975.

In 2006, the small network Vitaya started broadcasting Coronation Street for viewers in Belgium, with episodes aired roughly two years behind the UK.[98] In the U.A.E., episodes of Coronation Street are aired two months after their UK showing.[99]

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Merchandise

Several classic episodes were released on VHS video in the 1980s and 1990s in different sets, while a number of specially recorded feature-length episodes were released exclusively to video (see Coronation Street VHS and DVD releases).

The Street, a magazine dedicated to the show, was launched in 1989. Edited by Bill Hill, the magazine contained a summary of recent storylines, interviews, articles about classic episodes, and stories that occurred from before 1960. The format was initially A5 size, expanding to A4 from the seventh issue.[100] The magazine folded after issue 23 in 1993 when the publisher's contract with Granada Studios Tour expired and Granada wanted to produce their own magazine.[101]

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Spin-offs

Granada launched one spin-off in 1965, Pardon the Expression, following the story of clothing store manager Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe) after he left Weatherfield. Swindley's management experience was tested when he was appointed assistant manager at a fictional department store, Dobson and Hawks. Granada produced two series of the spin-off, which ended in 1966.[102]

In 1968, Arthur Lowe returned as Leonard Swindley in Turn Out The Lights, a sequel to Pardon the Expression. It ran for just six episodes before it was cancelled.[103]

In 1999, six special episodes of Coronation Street were produced, following the story of Steve McDonald, Vicky McDonald, Vikram Desai, Bet Gilroy and Reg Holdsworth in Brighton.[104] This spin-off was subtitled The Rover Returns and released on VHS tape.

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Sponsorship

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Harveys Publicity stunt.
Harveys Publicity stunt.

Cadburys was the first sponsor of Coronation Street beginning in July 1996. In the Summer of 2006 Cadbury Trebor Bassetts had to recall over 1 million chocolate bars, due to suspected salmonella contamination, and Coronation Street stopped the sponsorship for several months. In late 2006 Cadbury did not renew their contract, but agreed to sponsor the show until Coronation Street found a new sponsor. On 16 September 2007, the Cadbury sponsor adverts aired for the last time.

In July 2007 an ITV press release announced that Harveys (a furniture superstore) was the new sponsor of Coronation Street on the ITV Network. Harveys' sponsorship began on 30 September 2007.

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Awards

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Producers

The first producer was Stuart Latham, from December 1960 to July 1961. In the 1960s and 1970s, most producers did stints of about one years. Longer-running producers included Eric Prytherch (May 1972 - April 1974); Bill Podmore (September 1977 - July 1982); Carolyn Reynolds (1991-1993); and Sue Pritchard (1993-1996). Since 2008, the soap has been produced by Kim Crowther. For more information, see the List of Coronation Street producers.

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Footnotes

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  3. ^ a b c d e Little. (2000) p.10. Note: both Kershaw and Little make errors in relating the early transmission of the programme. The information here is taken from broadcast details in contemporary editions of The Times and TV Times.
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  6. ^ a b Little. (2000) p.93.
  7. ^ Little. (1995) p.8.
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  13. ^ Geraghty, Christine. Women and Soap Opera, Polity Press, London, 1991. (ISBN 0-7456-0568-0)
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  17. ^ Barker, Dennis. "Obituary: Leslie Duxbury" (Website edition), The Guardian, November 7, 2005. Retrieved on 2006-09-02. 
  18. ^ Little. (2000) p.66.
  19. ^ Queen Of The Street The Amazing Life Of Julie Goodyear (Website). Alken M.R.S. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
  20. ^ David Liddiment. How Soaps Changed the World [Television Documentary]. UK: Channel 4 UK.
  21. ^ Little. (1998) p.7.
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  24. ^ Miller, Jeffrey (1986). in Graham Nown: Street Talk: The Language of Coronation Street. London: Ward Lock. ISBN 0-7063-6514-3. 
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  96. ^ Coronation Street. UKTV Australia. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
  97. ^ Coronation Street. Television New Zealand, TV ONE. Retrieved on 2007-03-08.
  98. ^ "Belgian Channel Takes Coronation Street", World Screen. Retrieved on 2007-03-08. 
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Print references

  • Collier, Katherine (2003). Coronation Street: The Epic Novel. London: Carlton. ISBN 0-233-05097-3. 
  • Hanson, David; Jo Kingston (1999). Coronation St.: Access All Areas. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0-233-99722-9. 
  • Kershaw, H. V. (1981). The Street Where I Live. London: Granada. ISBN 0-246-11734-6. 
  • Little, Daran (1995). The Coronation Street Story. London: Boxtree. ISBN 1-85283-464-1. 
  • Little, Daran (1998). The Women of Coronation Street. London: Boxtree. ISBN 0-7522-2443-3. 
  • Little, Daran (2000). 40 Years of Coronation Street. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0-233-99806-3. 
  • Little, Daran (2002). Who's Who on Coronation Street. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0-233-99994-9. 
  • Podmore, Bill; Peter Reece (1990). Coronation Street: The Inside Story. London: Macdonald. ISBN 0-356-17971-0. 
  • Tinker, Jack (1987). Coronation Street: A fully-illustrated record of television's most popular serial. Treasure Press. ISBN 0-862-73240-9. 

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External links

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Video and DVD references

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
  • This Is Coronation Street. Dir. John Black. DVD. Acorn Media Publishing, 2003.
  • Coronation Street: Secrets. Dir. John Black. DVD. Morningstar Entertainment, 2004.
  • Coronation Street: Early Days. Video. Granada Media Group, 2001.
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