Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a long-running British television series (called a soap opera) produced by ITV Granada Television. The first episode of the series was broadcast on 9 december 1960. Since then, more than 8,000 episodes have been shown. The series is broadcast by the British channel ITV, and has long been very successful.

The program is about the everyday life of the residents of Coronation Street in Weatherfield, an imaginary neighborhood in Greater Manchester, where the program is also included. The cafe in the street, the Rovers Return Inn, plays an important role in the series as meeting place for the residents.

On september 17, 2010, Coronation Street the world's longest running tv soap series in production, after the American soap opera As the World Turns had ended on that date. [1]  before that it was already the longest-running drama series in the United Kingdom. [2]  In 1971 sold a record number of 1144 Granada Television episodes to the former Canadian television station CBKST Saskatoon. [2]

Between 1967 and 1975, the VARA 428 episodes of the series in Netherlands from. Since 2010 is the series to see five days a week at SBS 6. As of 2006 the series was also broadcast by Vitaya, a small Belgian tv channel. [3]

The Dutch actor Lex van Delden fulfilled a role in the series in 1981.

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 * The music video for the song I Want to Break Free by Queen is a parody of the series.