Hello! Canada offers fans a Coronation Street special

Hello! Canada magazine is offering Coronation Street fans a very special edition of its magazine.

They're offering 'Coronation Street' Greatest Love Stories Special Collector's Edition!

Playing host to more than 100 weddings over the years , Coronation Street has seen its share of romance, passion and tragedy. This photo-packed special addition of Hello! Canada celebrates fans' favourite couples, past and present. Look back on more than five decades of love on the cobbles! Plus, exclusive insights from the stars of the show and their own real-life fairytale endings.

Find out more here!

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Missing Corrie Scenes found for Canadian Viewers

(This post was originally posted by Tvor on the Bluenose Corrie Blog January 2017, reposted to this blog with permission.)

In Canada, Coronation Street airs on the network CBC every week night with a repeat omnibus on Sunday mornings. Most Canadians know that we're about two weeks behind the UK air dates for the show.  In the UK, on ITV, Coronation Street airs for one half hour per episode, with commercial ads at the start and end, and one break in the middle for ads. Just one. It seems astonishing to us North American viewers when network television breaks for ads every 5 to 8 minutes (it seems like more!). Coronation Street in the UK is filmed for the way ITV airs the show, sometimes with cliffhangers just before the mid show break.

In Canada, though, because of the extra ad breaks, there is too much Coronation Street to fit in 30 minutes. How do they fit it? CBC cuts out scenes or the last  bits of scenes. Many of us have been aware of this for years. If you watch Corrie through the week and again on the Sunday omnibus, you may see something on Sunday that you didn't see on the weekday episode. The reason for that is CBC doesn't have to fit the start and end show credits in for each half hour segment like they do through the week so there's a little more room though there are still things that stay missing.

That's why some of us are left scratching our collective heads in puzzlement, wondering how the storyline got from A to C. CBC cut has  out the B. There doesn't seem to be very much we can do about it but help is at hand.

There's a new YouTube channel that airs all the bits that were cut from the show each day. It's called Coronation Street Canada Extra. In the evening after the episode airs, or the next day, you can check it out and see what you missed and fill in all those B scenes. No more will we Canadians wonder how we got from A to C. I don't know if a concerted campaign of complaint all over social media can persuade CBC to show more Corrie and less advertising, because that advertising dollar is life's blood to tv stations

This is the video for the scenes that were missing from January 12's broadcast in Canada.


Check out the YouTube channel and support their efforts. They're big stars for doing this for the Canadian fans! And thanks to the folks at Conversation Street who alerted me to the Youtube site.


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Christmas Corrie TV schedule for Canadian fans

Here's the TV schedule for Coronation Street fans in Canada over the festive season.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - no Coronation Street.
Two episodes on each of: December 28, 29, 30.
New Year's Eve - no Coronation Street.
Coronation Street is on for 2 HOURS on New Year's Day, from 7 pm.
The Sunday omnibus on January 3 seems to be scheduled for 5 hours, starting at 8 am.

Check your local listings as always.

Here's the UK TV Corrie schedule over Christmas

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Happy Canada Day to Canadian Corrie fans

July 1st is Canada Day - so Happy Canada Day to all of our Coronation Street fans who read the blog from Canada.

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Attention: Coronation Street fans in Canada

Attention, Coronation Street fans in Canada, this blog post is for you.

Coronation Travel is offering fans in Canada the chance to join them on their 10th anniversary trip to the UK this autumn. 

The trip runs from Sept 26th – October 7th 2015 and takes in Ireland, Scotland, Blackpool and the Coronation Street tour.

Join this 10th Anniversary Tour to Ireland, Scotland, Blackpool and the new sets of Coronation Street where we will meet lots of the actors and hopefully watch some filming! September 26th - Oct 7th 2015. More details at www.coronationtravel.com
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CBC renews its Coronation Street license in Canada

There's good news for Coronation Street fans in Canada!

It says here that ITV Studios Global Entertainment has inked a multi-year deal with the Canadian public broadcaster CBC regarding the continued broadcast of Coronation Street.

CBC has been the Canadian home of Coronation Street since 1966. The new pact with ITVSGE sees Corrie continue to air exclusively on both CBC-TV and online, just one week after the U.K. broadcast.

CBC also scored the rights to air more than 8,000 previous episodes.

Greg Johnson, the executive VP of distribution for the Americas for ITV Studios Global Entertainment, said: “Coronation Street has been airing on CBC for almost 50 years, and we’re delighted to continue our long-standing partnership with CBC. This agreement will enable Coronation Street’s loyal Canadian fans to continue to enjoy all the action and drama of their favorite soap for years to come.”

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Canadian version of Coronation Street coming soon?

There's a story in today's Sun, which I can't read fully as I don't subscribe to it.  The headline says that Coronation Street writers are "secretly working on scripts for a Canadian version of the show".

From The Sun: "It is expected to be launched within months — and could see the national dish of pancakes and maple syrup replace Betty’s famous hotpot as the show’s signature dish.

Corrie is screened in 60 countries worldwide but this will be only the second foreign reworking made in 50 years."

What do you think, Canadian Corrie fans?  

Post-blog edit: A Coronation Street source has told Mirror Online: "Coronation Street is already shown in Canada, so we are not remaking Corrie. However, ITV studios are helping to develop a new show, a domestic Canadian soap."
  
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Meet Marc Baylis in Halifax, NS and Toronto in November

The Downeast Streeters in Halifax, Nova Scotia are very happy to announce that they will be working with George Martin Productions and the British Isles Show in Toronto to bring  you An Evening With Marc Baylis in Halifax on Tuesday November 12.

Date: Tuesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m. Doors open at 6:00

Location: Atlantic Room, Westin Hotel, Halifax

Tickets: There will only be 300 tickets available to this event! They will cost $29.50 plus service fees through Ticket Atlantic either online or through the Ticket Atlantic Superstore Outlet locations. The event will be listed there soon. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, September 10 at 11:00 a.m.

Circle November 12 on your calendars!

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For  Greater Toronto Area fans, you can meet Marc at the British Isles show between November 15 and 17th, several appearances daily. The show will be held at the International Centre, Hall 6, 6900 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario. Tickets to the show are $15.00 for an adult.

How the meet-and-greet with the Corrie star generally works is fans line up for autographs and a photo with the star. He will sign for about an hour or so at each appearance and the queues can be rather long so you want to get there early if you want to shake hands and get Marc's autograph. The show itself has other mainstage acts and performances and there are lots of vendor booths to buy goods from the British Isles.

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Happy Canada Day to Canadian Corrie fans

July 1st is Canada Day - so Happy Canada Day to all of our Coronation Street fans who read the blog from Canada.

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Coronation Street CBC schedule changes for Canadian viewers

It's that time of year again folks - but Coronation Street will still be broadcast during the next few months of NHL ice hockey playoffs.

Starting Monday, May 6, in most regions, Corrie will be aired on CBC  at 3:00 p.m. with a rerun at 2:30 a.m. the next morning.

Those in the Atlantic time zone may still get Coronation Street at 7:30 in the evening as well. In Newfoundland, the wee hours rerun seems to be at 1:30 a.m. with the afternoon at 3:30 and evening at 8:00.

Edited to add: Just to further confuse the issue, it seems some regions are starting the early shift for Corrie from today. On CBC Halifax tonight, there was a scroll  that said we in the Atlantic time zone are going to 6:30 from May 1 to 10 then to 7:30.

PLEASE Check your local listings.


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Charlie Condou predicts more angst for Maria and Marcus

Charlie Condou is in Toronto this weekend making an appearance at the British Isles Show and he was interviewed on Toronto's City News yesterday. There's a video clip of it here.

He tells the interviewer that he doesn't know how the M&M affair will end but says there are some "big dramas" coming up and they revolve around the fact that Marcus is gay. He says that the support for the storyline has overall been positive and most of the objections have come from the gay community but it's absolutely not about someone who was gay being "switched" by the love of a good woman. It's about how sexuality can become blurred or confused sometimes.

When asked which character he'd love to take over he said he'd love to "be" Roy Cropper, a strange but endearing character.

The interview is great and Charlie is very well spoken and a wonderful advocate for Coronation Street! If you're in the Toronto region this weekend, visit the British Isles show and you might get to meet him! The schedule and further details is here.


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Coronation Street's Charlie Condou comes to Ontario

Here's one for the Canadian fans!

Charlie Condou is making an appearance this weekend at the annual British Isles Show in Mississauga, Ontario in Canada.

The British Isles Show is an annual exhibition for all things British and always features a Coronation Street actor. The actor makes several appearances each day, and you can line up to get a photo and an autograph. Here's the schedule according to the website:

Friday March 8th at 1pm and 4pm
Saturday March 9th at 11:30am and 3pm
Sunday March 10th at 11:30am and 2:30pm

You'd be well advised to get there early to get in line as they do limit how many people will get through for each appearance.

This year, the show is at a new location at the International Centre, Hall 6, Mississauga ON and it's next to Pearson International Airport. Detailed directions and a map are here. There's also a bus stop right at the door and that web site tells you which busses you can take.

Tickets to get you into the show are $15.00 per adult and you can get them online at the British Isles site or at the door. Once inside, you can see all the exhibits, and see the other entertainment they put on as well as meet Charlie Condou. Your entrance ticket covers the events.

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Canadian Corrie fans - UK tour taking in Corrie set

Attention, Canadian Coronation Street fans.

Coronation Street Travel are offering a tour to the Street set taking in all kinds of other great UK stuff, all for $2895 CAD per person, twin accommodation.

Join in London on April 11th, tour ends in Manchester on April 20th. Escorted again by popular Neville MacKay.

Price includes most meals, superior hotel accommodation, luxury coach travel, sightseeing in all cities visited, Beatles sights in Liverpool including the Beatles Story, a Welsh Banquet in Cardiff Castle, and of course Mark Llewellyn's brilliant tour of locations in and around Manchester used in Corrie episodes, and the spectacular private visit to Granada/ITV Studios where we are able to watch actual filming and meet many of the stars. The group in October were totally "gobsmacked".

We spend 3 days in London, then Hampton Court Palace and Ornamental Gardens, Stonehenge, Cardiff Wales, Chester, Liverpool and then on to Manchester for 3 nights.   

All details at www.coronationtravel.com   email info@coronationtravel.com

Now then, before UK fans start jumping up and down saying we never get the chance to do things like that. Well, while it's true that the Street set is closed to the public, there are things you can do in Manchester like coach Corrie locations tours, walking tours, taxi tours - there's a whole list of Corrie-related things to do here.

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Coronation Street fun night in Canada

The Sparta House tea-room in Sparta, Ontario in Canada, is hosting two Coronation Street fun nights on April 26th and 27th. 

There's a three course meal including Roy's Rolls, Betty's Hotpot and Manchester Sponge. And there's prizes for the best Corrie look-a-like plus fun trivia, and more.

Find out more at the Sparta Houe website.

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Interview with Corrie's Tyrone and Kirk in Canada

Coronation Street's Andy Whyment (Kirk Sutherland) and Alan Halsall (Tyrone Dobbs) are currently over in Canada doing some promotional stuff for Corrie over there and have been interviewed by the Chronicle Herald. 

Nice to see the boys sporting t-shirts with the "Keep Calm and Corrie On" logo we created originally here on the Coronation Street Blog that's now been turned into t-shirts. 

It's a good interview with the two lads who talk about their storylines on the Street and how they don't mind fans getting their names mixed up with their character names.

“Honestly, we are used to it. I never take offence to it,” says Alan. “Bill Roache, who plays Ken, … he once told me a story that he was having dinner with his father and his father was, ‘So, what have you been doing today, Ken?’ His own dad! And he said. ‘If I can forgive my dad, I can forgive anyone.’”


Read the full interview here.

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Jennie McAlpine and Graeme Hawley live on stage in Canada

Canadian Corrie fans!  Coronation Street comes to Harbour Drive in Prince Edward Island as the Harbourfront Theatre welcomes Jennie McAlpine and Graeme Hawley (Fiz and John Stape) live and in conversation for one appearance only, Thursday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Fans will be treated to behind the scenes secrets about the tram crash, marriage, murder, prison, love, birth, deaths, family and Corrie neighbours – the typical day “on the Cobbles.”

In a hosted interview-style program, they will revisit many Coronation Street highlights and chat about their pivotal roles on the show, now in its 52nd year of broadcast. After the intermission, the event becomes more interactive as the audience will be invited to participate in a question-and-answer session with the stars.

In addition to regular admission tickets, there will be a limited number of VIP tickets available, which will include prime seating and a brief meet and greet with the stars after the show.

Tickets for this one evening only event will go on sale on Friday, May 11 at noon at the Harbourfront Theatre box office and online at www.harbourfronttheatre.com .

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CBC in Canada: Schedule Changes for the next couple of months

No matter that they said we'd still get catch up during the NHL hockey playoffs, CBC is cutting back the extra episodes between April 11 and June 13 back to the old schedule of a half hour a day. This isn't so bad, though, because they'll continue the catch up once the NHL Stanley Cup is awarded and we'll be caught up by September.

So, According to this schedule, and doing some looking on the schedule grid for other time zones:

Starting Wednesday April 11 Coronation Street will be showing ½ hour episodes daily.

On Wednesday April 11 to Friday April 13, the program airs ½ hour only as follows:

In Windsor, ON at 5:30 p.m. local time
Most other Ontario and Quebec and Atlantic time zone has Corrie at the usual 6:30 p.m. time slot.

Newfoundland start time is 7:00 p.m.
In Man/Sask/Alta/MTN/BC/PTN at 1 p.m. local time


The midnight broadcast will also be ½ hour in length but may be delayed due to NHL playoff games. Please check the CBC Program Guide for more information.

All of this week's episodes will be seen in the Sunday, April 15 Omnibus broadcast at its regular time. This broadcast will be 3 ½ hours.


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Coronation Street changes April 16 to June 13

Coronation Street will air weeknights for ½ hour as follows:

In Windsor, ON at 5:30 p.m. local time
Most other Ontario and Quebec and Atlantic time zone has Corrie at the usual 6:30 p.m. time slot.
Newfoundland start time is 7:00 p.m.
In Man/Sask/Alta/MTN/BC/PTN at 1 p.m. local time


The midnight broadcast will also be ½ hour in length but may be delayed due to NHL playoff games. Please check the CBC Program Guide for more information.
Beginning April 22 and ending June 10, the Sunday omnibus edition will be 2-1/2 hours in length, airing at its regular time.


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Fiz and John do Calgary

There's an interview with Jennie McAlpine and Graeme Hawley in the Canadian Calgary Herald today. Jennie and Graeme where there a couple of months ago for the Banff World Media Festival. Corrie was up for an award for a Best Soap Opera but lost to a Spanish soap. They were interviewed for  the newspaper.

For Canadian Fans, currently 10 months behind the UK shows, there is a minor spoiler about Stape's future but for those of you reading here regularly, you'll already know. Graeme talks about John Stape and describes him as a good man, really. He describes John as mulit-faceted and "he was the bad guy but he kind of wasn't the bad guy,". He also says that in spite of the sensational storylines that are not going away, Corrie still manages to "maintain what is essentially the (core) of the show: this slice of kitchen-sink life."

Don't forget, Canadian Fans, CBC is going to start showing 1 hour of Corrie every week night starting Monday, September 5 and airing a Sunday repeat from 7:30 a.m. onward. It's a lot to keep up on but these first two weeks of September lead up to the Tram Crash on September 15.

Vancouver ping alert for Canadian fans

After the roaring success of their ping in February, the organizers of that event in Vancouver are doing it again! There will be another Vancouver Ping at the Kings Head Tavern in Kitsilano on May 14, 2011. (1618 Yew Street, Vancouver)

Tickets are best purchased ahead of time online here or directly from the King's Head and will cost you $15.00 CA. Once again hosted by Joe Leary of Team 1040, the Ping will be held from noon – 2:00 with doors opening at 11:00 for those wishing to arrive early. Preferential seating will be given to those with pre-purchased tickets. There will be some wonderful prizes, game ideas and door prizes that will be given away as well as another trivia contest, so be sure to study up on your Corrie trivia.
For more information please contact Maureen O’Brien

Coronation Street party in Vancouver

To celebrate Coronation Street's 50th birthday in Canada there's going to be a gathering for Corrie fans young and old.  Hosted by Joe Leary and being held at the Kings Head Tavern, the party will take place on Saturday February 5 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at 1618 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC. 

The Kings Head in Kits is an all ages pub so for those of you that aren't able to find a sitter for your kiddies, please feel free to bring them along! First pint is on us, there will be traditional British pub fare available for purchase, games, trivia contests, prizes (including autographed beer mats direct from the Rovers) and special guest Robert Lawrenson - who played PC Glaister on Coronation Street for several years - will be in attendance for Q&A with the audience. Admission is free, just bring your love of the Street and enjoy swapping stories and secrets with other Corrie fans.

You can join their Facebook Group too