Articles about Coronation Street

The pick of the day’s television today in 1963

A look back at three-channel Christmas television

Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC

There’s a new kid on the Granada block: Phil Redmond aims to take the North West franchise in 1991

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1987 to find out what was on the telly…

A trip behind the scenes of the frantic treadmill involved in producing two episodes a week of ‘Coronation Street’ in 1979

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1984 to find out what was on the telly…

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1981 to find out what was on the telly…

H E Cooper takes her time machine back to 1980 to find out what was on the telly…

June 1970: a prolonged strike at Granada has just finished, but, the Financial Times asks, will they ever recover? And even if they do, surely Coronation Street is now doomed?

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 1-7 April 1963 for a look at what was on the telly

HE Cooper takes a time machine back to 18-24 March 1962 for a look at what was on the telly

HV Kershaw looks back at Coronation Street’s beginnings in 1960 from the comfort of 1976

David Brockman recalls Denis Forman, a founding father of ITV

Russ J Graham on what lessons can be learned from ITV making great drama for the BBC