Florizel Street: 50 Years Of Coronation Street Gets Its Own Show
FABULOUS tale in tonight’s Manchester Evening News of the struggle writer Tony Warren had to convince Granada Television his brainchild Coronation Street was a good idea.
The bosses at Granada were not at all keen and the original title Florizel Street almost had the series flushed like the similarly-named toilet cleaner.
The show is coming up for 50 years on the box and BBC has commissioned ex-Corrie script writer Daran Little, 73, who has also been the Street’s official archivist to pen Florizel Street. Filming will start in June/July and the show will be broadcast during the autumn.
Nice piece of Manchester regional coverage for its very own TV soap.
ENA Sharples taking the high moral ground in an early edition of Coronation Street
Posted: 25th, March 2010 | In: TV & Radio Comments (4) | TrackBack | Permalink
