Coronation Street
Coronation Street is really just actually a British television soap opera broadcast on Granada Television at 1960. It was soon syndicated on ITV franchises. The programme concerns the lives of these residents of Coronation Street at Weatherfield, a literary section of Salford, and centres around its terraced houses, cafe, corner shop, newsagents, textile mill and the Rovers Return pub.
Local scriptwriter Tony Warren at the Granada Television in Manchester devised in 1960 the programme. Warren destroy drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein however he was persuaded by manufacturer Harry Elton to create the programme to get pilot episodes. It was first broadcast on 9 December 1960 and in just half a year had become the most-watched programme in British television. It's been among the programmes on television that is business, underpinning the success of the broadcaster ITV and the Granada Television franchise.
Coronation Street is created by Granada Television in Granada Studios in Manchester. It is shown in every ITV regions as well as internationally. About 17 it turned into the world's longest-running television soap opera in manufacturing production. Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a class community together with humour and characters.
Released: 1960-12-09
Duration: 30
min
Country:
United Kingdom
