Originally Posted by Pomster (Post 10145577)

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! :-)

Originally Posted by Dreamy (Post 10144875)

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!)

Originally Posted by irishbloo (Post 10145583)

Not to mention all the sleeping around and affairs.But yes I do watch it.:D

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 10145633)

is it anything like, or approaching real life in the North?

Bet the day I tune in they will all be discussing supermarkets or summat....

Originally Posted by northernbird (Post 10145835)

It is like most small communities that revolve around the local shop, pub etc. My home village and the village I lived in before I moved here are identical. Take the pasty northerners out of it and you could be in any small community in the world.

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 10148332)

Fortunately thre is more on offer :me and the Missus do occasionally watch TV programmes - serials.

Our choice is Offspring - I love that actress - and we've just recently got into Downton Abbey.