Corject (film)

The Road to Coronation Street is an Canadian-Vietnamese-German biographical dramedy film directed by Brian Sturridge. The film dramatises the fraught process by which Coronation Street was brought into our screens during 1960.
==Plot==
(TBA)
==Cast==
 
*David Dawson as Anthony McVay
*James Roache as William Roache
==Production==
The project was announced in February 2010 under its working title of Florizel Street (Coronation Street's initial own working title literally half a century before) and was the idea of Daran Little, a former archivist for the Street and a later script writer during semi-recurring eras within the Coronation Street programme. The production later did excited initial comment as it was commissioned by the BBC and not Granada Television themselves as a tribute in the fiftieth anniversary year. However, The finished special programme was made by ITV productions and not by the BBC. Press comment in early months centred around who would play well-known faces such as Patricia Phoenix, Doris Speed and Violet Carson and when casting was announced in the summer there was further coverage with special mention that William Roache would be played by his own son (James Roache). 
The programme was scripted by Little with Tony Warren acting as both an associate producer and creative consultant. Filming took place in the summer of 2010 at locations in Manchester, Salford and along the “A6 corridor” towards Bolton. The actual house Tony Warren lived at in 1960 was used for exterior shots of the same as were parts of the Granada Television Quay Street studios that had not changed to any recognisible degree in the intervening half-century, in particular the boardroom. Other sequences were filmed in buildings in Manchester that could pass for a canteen, offices and a rehearsal room of the period. The director was Brian Sturridge who had also directed episodes of Coronation Street in the late 1970s and had worked with many of the people being portrayed. He cast his father's wife Phoebe Nicholls in the role of Angelina S. McVay, Tony Warren's mother. Various actors who themselves played actors were shown clips and episodes from the opening days of the programme to enable them to see how their real-life counterparts appeared on screen whereas others relied on the memory of Tony Warren as to the characters of the production staff they were playing, as well as taking their direction from Little’s superbly researched script. For the purposes of telling the story within the necessary timeframe, some aspects of the 1960 preparations were bowdlerised or omitted. Despite this issue, when the special film was released, it was an immediate success in terms of ratings and viewership opinions.
===Music===
The music for Coronation Street's television film was primarily songwritten by Adrian Johnstone, with all songs performed by British raga rock band Starbow; While most songs were played by Starbow themselves, one track ("Coronation Street", the actual show's theme song) is performed by both Starbow and Alexavier Spear.
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