Coronation Street: Costa & Coop p68: Repeats on ITV3: Are there too many spoilers? - Page 71

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Night Thoughts 1 February 2018 9:00pm

I’m pretty sure that, back in the day, unofficial product placement was simply a result of the set designers/properties buyers placing (probably entirely unintentionally) believable products on shelves in soap opera supermarkets/corner shops etc. Not really a problem in Alf’s corner shop, and if anyone spotted and really objected to obvious Fairy Liquid on the shelves then they clearly weren’t paying enough attention to Deirdre’s love life storyline. It was more of a problem in the Soap Pub of course, which is why entirely fictional brewers like Newton and Ridley were invented. It wasn’t just confined to ITV. Arkwright’s shop in Open All Hours is packed with commercially available products. It wasn’t product placement. It was just honest set dressing.

Slightly hazy memories here, but I’m sure I heard that in the case of cars, very often manufacturers would provide vehicles for free in return for them appearing on screen. IIRC it made the papers when Mike Baldwin got a new car which wasn’t a Jag, because Jaguar didn’t want to supply another one, fearing that the brand was becoming associated with slimy businessmen.

You can hear about this practice from the horse's mouth via this BBC4 doc about Ford of Dagenham... (31:40 in if the anchoring doesn't work)

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DJ

DJ Dave 1 February 2018 9:20pm

Whataday posted:

james-2001 posted:

Bettabuy's was filmed in a real branch of Morrisons, and if you look closely you can quite often see Morrison's signs around (the Bettabuy ones were clearly made up in the same style, presumably so that the actual Morrison's signs stood out less).

Happened with Firman's Freezers too where you could quite often see the Farmfoods logos everywhere.

I think you mean Iceland, because the Firman's logo was identical to the Iceland logo of the 90s

I was thinking myself was it not Iceland

RE

Revolution 1 February 2018 9:40pm

davidhorman posted:

Revolution posted:

It's bizarre how Carla and Aidan are willing to spend money to buy a roof.

It was bizarre that someone stole it in the first place, so eh.

Yes.

Re Corrie on ITV3, watching today's reruns made me think the last time there were characters who went abroad for a storyline. Outdoor filming seems to be in proximity of Manchester, like Blackpool when Hayley and Roy danced at the ballroom tower and Jenny Bradley saved Kevin's son from the tram. I remember Steve and Bet in Calais once but that might have been a spin-off.

I guess it's not just Corrie curbing back on outdoor filming, it used to be common on EE too. Maybe it's just not feasible with the set expansion and big workload, filming 60+ scenes in a week.

JA

james-2001 1 February 2018 10:35pm

Whataday posted:

james-2001 posted:

Bettabuy's was filmed in a real branch of Morrisons, and if you look closely you can quite often see Morrison's signs around (the Bettabuy ones were clearly made up in the same style, presumably so that the actual Morrison's signs stood out less).

Happened with Firman's Freezers too where you could quite often see the Farmfoods logos everywhere.

I think you mean Iceland, because the Firman's logo was identical to the Iceland logo of the 90s

The logo might have been- but it was still made in a farmfoods! I watched an episode set in there quite recently.

JA

james-2001 1 February 2018 10:56pm

There you go, just dug both of these off a January 1998 episode on the Network DVDs. You can see the Farmfoods logo both on a poster behind Hayley and the bottles of orangeade next to Alma (and yes, they are both wearing badges with the Iceland rip-off logo on!)

MU

Multi 2 February 2018 12:14am

james-2001 posted:

There you go, just dug both of these off a January 1998 episode on the Network DVDs. You can see the Farmfoods logo both on a poster behind Hayley and the bottles of orangeade next to Alma (and yes, they are both wearing badges with the Iceland rip-off logo on!)

They definitely did film in Icelands at some point in the 90s, I have an old filming schedule that details the usage of a store in Ashton (I think??). I'll try and hunt it out and scan it in.

JA

james-2001 2 February 2018 12:16am

They possibly did. When it changed to Freshco, that was quite obviously a Somerfield too (then it was an Asda when we saw Roy in there, several years after it has last been on screen).

SP

Steve in Pudsey 2 February 2018 3:09am

Was using both Farmfoods and Iceland together an attempt to not give "undue prominence" to either brand?

I guess Granada would have had to make sure they were paying the going rate facility fee for the use of the supermarket premises so they could refute any claim of product placement?

JA

JAS84 2 February 2018 10:57am

james-2001 posted:

What happened to the Family Choice branded corner shops anyway? They used to be everywhere in the 90s!

They still exist, but it's a lot less common, having been taken over by Premier.
https://www.premier-stores.co.uk/store/family-choice-mini-mart/

JA

james-2001 2 February 2018 11:40am

I don't think I've seen a Family Choice store for years, though I do know of a store which still has the "Family Choice" fascia up even though it's been an antiques store for years.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2873213,-0.3017165,3a,15y,345.22h,90.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sF4R9zfd3ilelmFvO1OhQYA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Stuart 2 February 2018 11:43am

The BBC article infers that the Costa and Co-Op will be on a new area of the outdoor set, and will only be frontages, rather than have interiors.

The red line on this plan shows the expanded area of the set. I think these new shops will be in the street running behind the arch next to the Rovers. (The one that mysteriously altered its orientation by 90 degrees a few years ago

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Co-Ops are common enough in residential areas (there are 3 within walking distance of my house), but do Costa generally venture outside city/town centres?

JA

james-2001 2 February 2018 11:45am

Stuart posted:

Co-Ops are common enough in residential areas (there are 3 within walking distance of my house), but do Costa generally venture outside city/town centres?

There's one near me, so yes.