The Road to Corrie (BBC4)

Just watched a bit of the first episode on Youtube and the Ducks were there above the fireplace.
 
An excellent piece of television, though a couple of jarring discrepancies. The phone in the Warren household had an American style single ringtone, and the Granada workers were asked to watch the pilot episode in their "lunch hour", in the north they call it "dinner hour", or did when I was brought up there at the time Corrie was launched.
 
Agreed. I loved the actual cast as the credits rolled as well. I thought that was a really nice touch at the end.



Jessie Wallace made Pat Phoneix come alive again and I found myself near to tears with this.



Agreed on all three counts.
 
I was away for all of last week and watched The Road to Corrie on iPlayer earlier and I thought it was fantastic, the attention to detail was superb, especially Jessie Wallace and Linda Barron, both of whom were fantastic, but thats not anything against the rest of the cast, it was a piece of Television that was brilliantly put together.

Nice to see it started with 'From The North, Granada presents', yet it ended with An ITV Studios Production for the BBC...
 
The first episodes definitely exist. I've seen them. ITV showed the first 5 episodes over a week to celebrate an anniversary once. I think it may have been for the 30th anniversary 20 years ago though!
 
One of the best moments of tv so far this year - fantastic acting by Jessie Wallace and Lynda Baron, but seems a shame not to mention the others too. Must have been really strange for James Roache to be playing his father, especially as the script made out he was only doing this until his film career took off.

I think special mention should go to the scriptwriter (Daran Little), who ironically has now made the move from writing for Corrie to Eastenders.
 
Apparently it won't be aired on the BBC anytime soon (emailed them).

& according to a member in the soaps thread there is no extras atall. Just the film. I still want this though :)
 
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