Coronation Street

Television made its debut in the fifties and towards the end of the sixties it became a powerful mass communication tool. During that time drama and soaps became extremely popular. . Fiction held people in their living room to spend hours watching the tele-series. Among the popular television series of the seventy’s and the eighty’s ’Emmerdale’, ’the bill’ and the ’Eastenders’ are worth mentioning.

Of the different types of series that were aired during the sixties, "Coronation Street" stood out from the rest, as it was a completely different kind of a sit-com as it popularised itself by putting heavy emphasise on the portrayal of strong female characters. . Tony Warren, the maker of Coronation Street, used to casually call it ’Corrie’ that later became a popular nickname for the series. It was originally launched on Granada TV and allotted a 30 minutes slot. However its slot on various other channels also enjoyed the same time and made the series equally popular in that channel. Today, with successful run, Coronation Street has become one of the longest running television programmes.

The characters of Coronation Street like Hilda Ogden, Sharpels, Tanner and Walker are so well created that they closely resemble any human living or dead. They were so popular that the audience hardly talk about the male characters. One can expect one-liners and smart comments to be flying all over the place when Liam and Steve are together.

Hilda Ogden, the most popular character of Coronation Street who introduced the fashion of wearing pinny, with hair curlers. She left Coronation Street in 1987 and her last episode was ranked highest with 27 million viewers, who watched her as she left. In fact her popularity grew to such heights that she was voted as ’the fourth most recognizable woman’ only subsequent to Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana etc.

The story of Coronation Street is based on ordinary lives of people. In fact the lingo of the show like,