Coronation Street sets Gary Windass to use it, therefore failing to meet building regulations) the interior set was constructed over a period of four weeks and housed inside the empty shell of Roy's Rolls. A behind the scenes video was uploaded after the first installment of the bank holiday episodes aired to the website of Coronation Street. On 29 November 2013, the new set was officially unveiled. At the press launch ITV announced that an hour-long documentary entitled "Coronation Street – A Moving Story" will air which will accompany the show's set move to MediaCityUK. Filmed over two years, the programme reveals how
Humour in Coronation Street Humour in Coronation Street Humour has featured strongly in "Coronation Street" since the programme's inception on 9 December 1960 airing on British Television. Reflecting on "Coronation Street"s survival for over five decades, former archivist and scriptwriter Daran Little suggests that most observers attribute the show's success to "two aspects: the mixture of comedy and drama, and the strength of the female characters." While most Coronation Street characters are used in a comedic capacity at some time or other, a number of characters have been used specifically for comedy throughout the show's history. The notoriously prissy, reserved and plain spinster Mavis