Harvey’s Furniture create Rovers Return floor plans

Harvey’s Furniture have designed the floor plans for seven iconic TV family homes - including the Rovers Return on Coronation Street.  

It'd be interesting to see the upstairs!

To give fans a glimpse into the world of fiction, along with inspiration for redesigning their homes, Harvey's have created real-life floor plans for these much-loved family homes. 

As well as the Rovers, the floor plans include Addams Family Mansion, Family Guy – The Griffin Family Home, The Flintstones – Fred & Wilma Flintstone’s House, Peaky Blinders – Arrow House and Will & Grace – Will & Grace’s Apartment

All of the floor plans can be found here:- https://www.harveysfurniture.co.uk/blog/tv-family-floor-plans/

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Comparethemarket.com is Coronation Street's new sponsor

Seemples!

Comparethemarket.com is to become the sponsor of Coronation Street, replacing furniture store Harveys.

ITV Commercial today announced that comparethemarket.com will be the new sponsor of Coronation Street.

The fully integrated three-year sponsorship package was negotiated by ITV Commercial and Newcast, ZenithOptimedia's sponsorship and content division, on behalf of comparethemarket.com. The exclusive on and off-air partnership will include broadcast, online, mobile and licensing elements, bringing both brands to as many fans as possible.

Coronation Street is the UK’s most popular soap, sitting at the heart of ITV1’s peak time schedule, attracting an average audience of 9.4m viewers for each of its five episodes every week. In 2012 a peak audience of 12.5million viewers, or a massive 45% of the available TV audience, tuned in on January 23rd to watch Becky McDonald’s dramatic exit from the show.

Simon Daglish, Group Commercial Director, ITV said: “We are delighted to be working with comparethemarket.com as a partner for Coronation Street. This is a long-term commitment from both parties around two of the most exciting and loved brands in the UK, which we believe will become the benchmark for partnerships going forward."

Paul Galligan, Managing Director of comparethemarket.com said: “Coronation Street is one of Britain’s most entertaining and best loved TV shows and so we are delighted to be partnering with such a prestigious programme. We will be working closely with ITV to ensure this is a model partnership, utilising both on and off-air opportunities to take our brands to customers in new and exciting ways.”

Paul Constantine, Managing Partner at ZenithOptimedia said: "Coronation Street is the jewel in the crown of the ITV schedule and we are extremely pleased to have secured this partnership for comparethemarket.com in this highly competitive sector."

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Coronation Street looking for new sponsor

Harveys the Furniture Store are ending their sponsorship of Coronation Street after five years. Five years? Has it really been that long, it's flown over! 

Anyway, this means that Corrie are now looking for a new sponsor to annoy us with their ads before, during and after our favourite soap.

Stephen Campbell, managing director at furniture retailer Harveys, said: "Over the last five years, 'Coronation Street' has been a fantastic alignment for us, but we feel the time has come to look for something new. However, having contemplated long and hard about continuing with 'Coronation Street', we felt it would be a good time to do something different and we are currently considering a number of options."

Harveys' sponsorship will end in January 2013.

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WIN! Ken and Deirdre's furniture from Ideal Home Show

Coronation Street sponsor Harvey's the Furniture Store have a great competition on their website here. 

You can win £300 worth of furniture from Ken and Deirdre's Ideal Home Show house, after the show ends on March 27th. 

Coronation Street logo spotted in shot on DVD

I was watching 'A Knight's Tale' today, and I spotted a little something on show on the Harvey's truck that over takes Norris and Mary, see if you can spot it! (Click on the picture to show a larger version)

WIN! Coronation Street flying ducks in EXCLUSIVE blog competition

With thanks to the wonderful people at Coronation Street sponsors Harveys the Furniture Store we have got TEN, yes TEN, boxes of Corrie flying ducks to give away in a very special, exclusive competition. How fabulous is that? Very!

To be in with a chance of winning one of these ten iconic prizes, all you have to do is email me with the correct answers to the following two questions.

Q1: In Coronation Street, who put up Hilda Ogden's muriel?
Q2: What is the name of this recliner chair, pictured on the left, which is available on the Harveys the Furniture Store website?

The ten winners will be drawn at random. Prizes can only be sent to addressses in the UK.

Deadline for entries is Monday 25th October at 5pm.

Don't forget to check out the special competition on the Harveys website where you can win a day on the Coronation Street set. Have a look at it here.

Win a day on the Coronation Street set

Do you want to be a star? Is your dream to visit the cobbles of Coronation Street? Well, Harvey's the Furniture Store, Corrie's sponsor, is holding a Casting Couch competition and the prize  is a day on the set. How do you win? You record your own version of a classic Coronation Street scene and send it to them. You have to be sitting on a couch (casting couch, geddit?) while you say the lines. You can choose one of the scripts they have online or write your own 45 second scene. Send the clip via text, email or web upload and it will be judged by other viewers. Check out the website for links to scripts and where to view and vote for uploaded clips (There's some great ones up there already!).

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER - Harveys the Furniture Store competition

Harveys the Furniture Store are, as we all know, Coronation Street's sponsors. And the very lovely people who work there have offered us a dramatic opaque vase as a competition prize to giveaway in an exclusive competition here on the blog. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning, is to email me with the correct answer to this question before the deadline of Monday 9 August at 8pm.

Q: Whose living room on Coronation Street is shown in the picture above?

Here's a picture of the prize you can win. It's a giant opaque vase, 1m high, diameter 12 cm.

Find out more about Harveys the Furniture Store and enter their own competition to win a day on the Coronation Street set.

Your chance to star in Coronation Street scene

As part of Coronation Street's 50th celebrations, the soap's sponsors, Harveys the furniture store, have launched a unique competition asking fans to give their own performance of classic Corrie scripts.

There's plenty of time to enter the competition by calling into any Harvey's stores to perform the scripts on one of their sofas, or uploading a video of your performance of one of the three scripts, with all details on the website http://www.harveysfurniture.co.uk/coronationstreet.

You can also email your clip to castingcouch@harvey-furnishings.co.uk

All entries will be monitored to ensure they follow the scene exactly, and that they are in no way offensive before going live on the website. The public will then get the chance to view and vote for their favourite clips, with deadlines for entries November 7, to decide who wins the dream prize of a day in the fictional world of Weatherfield. (Source: MEN)

Behind the scenes at the Corrie Harvey's adverts

Harveys the furniture store, sponsors of Coronation Street, have got some special out-take moments from the making of their adverts.

Have a look at them on the Harveys website

Does that doll remind you of someone?

Ex-Corrie voiceover for Emmerdale sponsor

The current Coronation Street sponsor is Harvey's Furniture Store and the sponsor for t'other ITV soap is Airwick.

The current Airwick campaign uses an ex-Corrie actress for the voiceover... see if you can guess who it is. Just click here to watch the ad and listen to the familiar voice.

And you can also watch a current Corrie actress advertising cheese, if you like.