Coronation Street

Coronation Street is Britain’s longest-running television soap opera, which was first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV . The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. The show was created by Tony Warren and is produced by Granada Television (now branded ITV Productions. Coronation Street (commonly nicknamed and written as ‘Corrie’ or ‘the Street’) is set in a fictional street in ‘Weatherfield’, a fictional suburb of Manchester, England. The programme examines the lives of the residents of the fictional northern street, who are predominantly working-class. Coronation Street itself consists of a row of seven early 20th century terraced houses on its northern side with a public house, ‘The Rovers Return Inn’, at one end, and a corner shop at the other. The southern side of the street consists of a factory, two shop units, a garage and three houses, all constructed in the late 1980s.