Coronation Street
 

Does anyone else still watch it ? I see it's almost up-to-date now here in Australia on UKTV, when we first got Foxtel it was over 7 years behind. Still the same old crap, but everyday without fail it's on.

Jeez we're sad b'stards. Never watch Bestenders though, never did and never will.

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Never watched it in the first place - bunch of pasty northerners taking part in their favourite activity of whinging.

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Stopped watching crap like that about 10 years ago.

I've never looked back. Such a waste of time that you never get back.

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I used to quite like Corrie, seemed a tad more believeable than deadenders although no one seemed to go off the street to work. Ooops iykwim! Haven't seen it for over 10 years though.

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Just watch it occasionally, maybe an episode every week, seems to be enough to keep up! I watch eastenders slightly more regularly, maybe two episodes a week.

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This pasty moaning northerner downloads every episode so I am up to date.

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I watch them both every night.. :(

4 weeks behind they are now.

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I remember Corrie when it first started :ohmy: My gran, being from Salford insisted on watching it and she lived with us so we all watched it. I stopped watching it in 1967 when I left home.

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Ha, I still watch it. It's been almost 20 years now. Hubby got me hooked on it. Have to say though that the storylines these days seem pretty lame.

You want to hear something funny...when I was working in my uni's Native Studies Dept. one summer, I used to sneak down to the basement where they had a decrepit TV (complete with clothes hanger aerial) hooked up for showing videos...good old VHS. I'd time my afternoon coffee break to catch 15 minutes of Corrie. Anyway, one of the other summer students employed there to do some database work, a young guy in his early 20s, saw me and lamented, "Oh not Coronation Street. My grandma and all my aunties watch it." I had to giggle at the thought of all the kokums on reserves throughout Canada tuning in to watch the antics of Ken and Deirdre.

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We (myself, Middlechild, Youngestchild) watch it religiously. We also (Middlechild and I) watch Eastenders.

If I could only ever watch one again, it'd have to be Corrie.

It isn't all doom and gloom, Coronation Street has always prided itself on finding humour (very often dark humour) in the midst of adversity, just like any self respecting Northerner* would do.


(*Although how people from Manchester can call themselves Northern when they're practically the Midlands, I'll never know ...... :getcoat: .... and yes, I know Southerners find humour in adversity but you'd never know it from Eastenders!)

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Canada is at least a year behind the UK, so Ive started watching corrie on youtube which has the latest episodes.....with my coffee and chocolate hobnobs......:thumbsup:

as well as any of the other brit comedy or dramatic series that we get on our PBS stations - only TV worth watching these days......

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They have to draw the line somewhere ;)

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its the wife's and the daughters biggest concern about moving to australia. the fact that they are 4 weeks behind in corrie.
i personally hate it, its like a merry-go-round same story line just keeps coming around just with different characters.

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Funnily enough last night I stumbled on it flicking through the Pay TV.


The intro was weird, similar but not the same:confused:

Then in the first minute there were 5 characters I had no idea.... who the hell they were.

Figured time has moved on:lol: far too much and gave up.

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I'm pretty sad and watch it but it is really starting to annoy me.
10 houses in one street, there have been god knows how many murderers and rapists living there, more tragedy than most people experience in a lifetime.

I would have to move! :-)