About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 133. Chapters: Fictional people from Manchester, Films set in Manchester, Television shows set in Manchester, Cracker, Coronation Street, Dinnerladies, Dan Dare, Queer as Folk, Vurt, Cold Feet, Waterloo Road, Ideal, Life on Mars, Gilly Roach, Gene Hunt, Shameless, Tony King, Charlie Pace, The Royle Family, Pilot, Cutting It, Sinchronicity, Prime Suspect, Steamboy, The Second Coming, 24 Hour Party People, The Street, Grownups, Sam Tyler, To Be A Somebody, Julie Cooper, North and South, Daphne Moon, East Is East, The Innocence Project, To Say I Love You, One Day A Lemming Will Fly, Northern Lights, Mary Barton, Father & Son, See No Evil: The Moors Murders, Ray Carling, The Mad Woman in the Attic, Burn It, Looking for Eric, Captain Black, Sooty & Co., Girls in Love, Place of Angels, New Street Law, Hobson's Choice, List of television shows set in Manchester, Jase Dyer, City Lights, Annie Cartwright, Elidor, Massive, Goth Opera, Charlie Bubbles, Bob & Rose, A Taste of Honey, The Man in the White Suit, 8:15 from Manchester, Children's Ward, Clocking Off, A Kind of Loving, Roy Race, The Cuckoo Waltz, Manchester Passion, Blue Murder, The Raincloud Man, Albion Market, Hell Is a City, Oxford Road Show, Fame is the Spur, The Condemned, About a Girl, Making Out, Sorted, The White Bus, Love on the Dole, Having It Off, The Practice, Night-Wolf, The Curry Mile, List of films set in Manchester, Manchester Slingback. Excerpt: Coronation Street is a long-running British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on Salford in North West England. Created by Tony Warren, it was produced by Granada Television (now ITV Studios) in Manchester and was first broadcast on 9 December 1960. It has since been shown in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence. Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative pr...