Coronation Street

We knew it was going to happen, but now it has finally begun. Demolition of the old Corrie set at Granada is underway. All the signage has been removed, the house on the original terrace are boarded up and the famous cobbles have been ripped out. The set is now a shadow of its former self, and will soon be no more.

Mirror.co.uk
Old Coronation Street set destroyed: Shock photos reveal cobbles ripped apart and abandoned buildings boarded up

Look what we've been sent! It's the old #Corrie set, photographed yesterday! pic.twitter.com/bhumeP4jE2

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"The street was home to the ITV soap since the 1960s when it was first built" - not true, Mirror. The old set wasn't the original one!

Wasnt it 1970 when the first proper street appeared with mike factory across the road?

1968 first Street appeared and then the one soon to be destroyed appeared from 1982.

Don't forget the 1960-68 street which was in a studio (IIRC had to be constructed in two parts as the studio wasn't long enough- so you'd never get a shot of the whole street).

Thinking of that, it's amusing when in the US watching their soaps, they still use studio sets for supposed "outside" shots and the fact it's shot in a studio is obvious. It must be decades since our soaps shot exteriors in studios, we always do "outside" scenes well... outside! The production standards on our soaps are like Hollywood movies compared to US ones!

That reminds me of the sitcom, Duty Free, which was set in Spain, and apparently regularly received letters from viewers asking where the location was so they could go on holiday there. Of course it was all shot in a studio at Yorkshire Television in Leeds.

Well, they're probably made on a far lower budget, since US soaps are daytime fare, not prime time like most of ours.

Im sure the Ch5 paid for US soap Sunset beach did have out idea screens,.

Why was there an extra episode on last night?

Exactly the budgets and turn around times are vastly different. And the US soaps are cheaply produced daytime programming, typically romance-based story lines geared exclusively toward woman featuring rich and affluent people. It was meant, when they launched in the late 50s, to be a daily escapism for housewives normal lives. Remember for decades these shows aired mostly everyday at specific times. So the money and turn around time was insane and for decades many where shot in NYC since their inception. So its practice that stuck. As opposed to the UK/AU soaps which are primetime and are mean to more "realistic" in tone and written for a larger audience. Hence you get the outdoor sets etc. I doubt any UK/AU programmer would spend the money on just a daytime drama that didnt pull in a large primetime audience. At the same time these daytime soaps would never air regularly in primetime in the US.

nearly all the daytime soaps in the usa have been given the chop. I remember some of the plots and how awful slow peace everything was. like one epsoides was like in Real time and over the course of a month would be one day, which would included plan crashes, kidnappings with there vitcoms locked up behide a brick wall.... this gem says it all....

First promo....

Doctors springs to mind as a soap that features on BBC One daytime (at least appears in the 'soap' genre on the BBC programme website). I wonder what the average for the show is, as it doesn't appear in the Barb top 30.