timshorts wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:11 pm

Righto. I guess this must be a spurious fishing exercise, so:

Brexit is great.

The tories are great.

Trump is a superhero. Do I not hate orange?

Mrs brown is taking jobs from real women and it is no better than blacking up.

Is that enough to get the thread blocked.

Aclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:24 pm

We all love Corrie, don't we ?

Aclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 8:05 pm

Never mind Emmerdale ! This is proper acting.
Happy birthday Corrie.

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:18 pm

I can remember Thelma Barlow being electrocuted by an iron plugged into the light socket.

Vino blanco wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:29 pm

I remember watching the first episode of Coronation Street 60 years ago. One of the scenes in the Barlow house showed Ken's dad, I think it was, fixing a punctured Tyre on an upturned push bike in the front room. I thought at the time that this was very realistic and actually happened in homes like ours. It was the kind of thing that you didn't normally see on TV at the time and I've got to say I watched the program regularly for many years after that.
I also thought they spoke with strong Northern accents, similar to mine and my friends and family, which again was unusual for TV at the time. I haven't watched it now for some 20 years or so, the whole thing became unbelievable and I now if I catch a glimpse of it for a short time I understand why I stopped watching it.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:39 pm

Wasn't that 1st episode all about a 10 bob note missing from Elsie Tanners purse.....

I was only 2 but am sure I remember it

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:57 pm

Plenty of Burnley-born actors in the cast down the years, including Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole) Irene Sutcliffe (Maggie Clegg) Julia Haworth (Claire Peacock) & Natalie Gumede (Kirsty Soames), I'm sure there's many more.

Millertime v1.7 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:38 am

Put the rod away Aclaret, you'll get a name for yourself. Leave the fishing to Tup and Morag on the banks of Loch Ness. They're trying their hand at fish and chips in the cafe now. The reviews are mixed.

tiger76 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:57 pm

Plenty of Burnley-born actors in the cast down the years, including Malcolm Hebden (Norris Cole) Irene Sutcliffe (Maggie Clegg) Julia Haworth (Claire Peacock) & Natalie Gumede (Kirsty Soames), I'm sure there's many more.

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:30 pm

there was an actress from tod road school as well, kathy Jaimson. shes married to someone from brookside in real life, corkhill was his character in brookside.she was supposedly the daughter of the bloke that ran the rovers with bet gilroy i think.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:21 pm

Kirsty Soames was the one who was abusing Tyrone. She was at school with a member of this message board (jdrobbo) which was in Colne. Julie Haworth lived on Tod Road I think and she was married at St. Stephen's. Some of the Corrie cast were at the wedding including Fred Elliott, I saw Fred Elliott.

FactualFrank wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:37 pm

Yes, Julia lived on Todmorden road, just down from Towneley Golf Club. I remember her parents telling me she'd got the part in Corrie a few weeks prior to appearing on screen as know them well. I think Julia also had her after-wedding gathering at Towneley Hall.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:21 pm

Kirsty Soames was the one who was abusing Tyrone. She was at school with a member of this message board (jdrobbo) which was in Colne. Julie Haworth lived on Tod Road I think and she was married at St. Stephen's. Some of the Corrie cast were at the wedding including Fred Elliott, I saw Fred Elliott.

Eyres_11 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:52 pm

She was at primary school with me - apparently likes to tell people her home town in Manchester - rather than Nelson / Colne

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:15 pm

Burnley Fan Sam Astin (Chesney Brown in Corrie)

Vintage Claret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:28 pm

Sure I remember reading somewhere that Sam Astin wanted to call Cheney's pet Great Dane 'Beast' but the producers felt that 'Schmeical' would have more widespread appeal.

There used to be regular 'nods' to Burnley in the programme like the rota of doctors names on a noticeboard in a hospital scene being Austin, Elliott, Eli, etc and Amy McDonald wearing a Burnley shirt to school football practice.

Vintage Claret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:28 pm

Sure I remember reading somewhere that Sam Astin wanted to call Cheney's pet Great Dane 'Beast' but the producers felt that 'Schmeical' would have more widespread appeal.

There used to be regular 'nods' to Burnley in the programme like the rota of doctors names on a noticeboard in a hospital scene being Austin, Elliott, Eli, etc and Amy McDonald wearing a Burnley shirt to school football practice.

FactualFrank wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:42 pm

Heard a similar story, but with him wanting to call the dog Jensen

Vintage Claret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:28 pm

Sure I remember reading somewhere that Sam Astin wanted to call Cheney's pet Great Dane 'Jensen' but the producers felt that 'Schmeical' would have more widespread appeal.

There used to be regular 'nods' to Burnley in the programme like the rota of doctors names on a noticeboard in a hospital scene being Austin, Elliott, Eli, etc and Amy McDonald wearing a Burnley shirt to school football practice.

Cirrus_Minor wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:31 pm

I tend to see CS a lot since Mrs CM loves it. Some of the story lines are not too bad and the acting has improved over the years.

nil_desperandum wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:16 pm

I really don't think that that's true. The original cast, and those that joined it in the 60s were - in many cases - the top pros of the time, and were very carefully selected.
Nowadays, with far more weekly episodes and consequently far more characters, the standard can be a bit uneven.
Of course, it's quite difficult to make comparisons over 60 years because acting styles and camera work have changed considerably, and don't forget that back in the 60s it went out "live".

claptrappers_union wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 4:14 am

Always preferred Corrie to the other soaps. I watched every episode.

I liked how they mixed comedy storylines with the serious ones, and how the comical subplots eventually grew into the serious ones months down the line. Lots of in-jokes if you spotted them too. It was quite ‘meta’ at times.

Then one day, for no particular reason about 5 years ago. I just stopped watching it.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:21 pm

They weren’t the top people back at the start. They were mainly unheard of actors.

nil_desperandum wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:34 pm

I respectfully disagree. They weren't well-known TV stars, since they weren't making programmes like this in the 1950s, but they were very experienced actors and actresses - and that was my point. People like Jean Alexander had been doing rep on tour since the 1940s, and the casting directors searched them out, auditioned them and eventually came up with a dream cast.
Doris Speed (e.g.) had parents who were touring performers, and she followed them on stage aged 3 in 1902. She was over 60 when Corrie signed her up.

ClaretTony wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 8:49 pm

Doris Speed was a nobody really. She’d worked in rep but had given it up and was working as a typist. Jean Alexander was given a minor part initially but again hadn’t done much.

The best known was Violet Carson who had been on radio with Wilfred Pickles as a pianist.

They were experienced but mainly at a very low level. Tony Warren knew just what he wanted for each part though, particularly the women. They were basically women he’d grown up with.

Corrie was and still is very much about the strong women. Back at the start it was Ena, the wonderful Elsie & Mrs Walker.

nil_desperandum wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:25 pm

I don't think we are really disagreeing, just looking at it from a rather a different perspective.
I described them as "top pros" because in the early 60s the bulk of the work was still with the rep companies, not TV, and certainly not "soaps". (You choose to describe this as "low level", which is fair enough, but I would call them "old troupers". They had way more acting experience than most of those who get cast today - and that was really my point. So I was really referring to their professionalism and experience when I used the phrase "top pros", not meaning top"stars". (Should have phrased it better!)
Doris Speed (e.g.) had been working on and off and developing her craft for 60 years, and it is claimed that Tony Warren specifically wrote the role for her. That was what I mean't when I said that I didn't think that the acting had improved in recent years, which was what the other poster claimed.
These actors who had been playing to live audiences for decades knew their stuff / craft, and that's why they fit each character perfectly, and really that was why the early episodes were such a success.
And as I mentioned, the Friday episode went out "live" and the Wed episode was recorded "live" just 15 minutes later. I doubt the stars of today would be comfortable doing that week in week out. It was second nature to these actors / actresses
I really don't think it would have worked if they had tried to cast "stars" of the screen.

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 10:39 pm

Wasn't that 1st episode all about a 10 bob note missing from Elsie Tanners purse.....

I was only 2 but am sure I remember it