Saturday 23 July 2016

Coronation Street and the Joy of Six

(This post was originally posted by Flaming Nora on the Coronation Street Blog June 2016, reposted to this blog with permission.)

News that Coronation Street is going to change to six episodes a week in 2017 made me wonder when the last change to five episodes took place. 

With thanks to Corriepedia, here we go...

1960
Corrie was launched on Friday 9th December 1960 with two episodes per week.
1989
Corrie begins broadcasting a third regular episode each week.


1996   
Corrie begins broadcasting a fourth regular episode each week.


2003
Corrie begins broadcasting a fifth regular episode each week began

2017
Corrie will begin broadcasting its sixth regular episode each week.




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