how many days a week is coronation street on
Coronation Street The show airs six times a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7:30–8 pm and 8:30–9 pm. Since 2017, ten classic episodes of the programme from 1986 onwards air each week on ITV3.[3] The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Television in Manchester.[4] 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 a significant part of the British culture.[5] The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
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Coronation Street Early episodes told the story of student Kenneth Barlow (William Roache), who had won a place at university, and thus found his working-class background - as well as his parents, Frank and Ida (Frank Pemberton and Noel Dyson) - something of an embarrassment.[15] The character was one of the few to have experienced life outside of Coronation Street. In some ways this predicts the growth of globalisation, and the decline of similar communities. In an episode from 1961, Barlow declares: "You can't go on just thinking about your own street these days. We're living with people on the other side of the world. There's more to worry about than Elsie Tanner and her boyfriends."[16] Roache is the only remaining member of the original cast, which makes him the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street, and in British and global soap history.
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