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Originally Posted by kestrelx
We noticed you'd not been posting! It was Tony Warren who said that Corrie was like Dickens and he wrote it, I doubt if reading corrie scripts would be as good as Dickens novels wrote.
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Must disagree. If we can be slightly liberal with the issue of format, I think the scripts of Coronation Street over the years hold just as much weight in the Western canon as anything Dickens wrote. Ena Sharples and Becky McDonald are more than a match for Miss Havisham on any day of the week. Personally I have been inspired in my work by Tony Warren's vision just as much as I have by Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas.
The characters are brilliantly developed with humour and romance in abundance. And while modern soap opera standards dictate that the odd completely incredible storyline must be thrown in for good measure (and for a few cast kill-offs), Coronation Street is one of the few programmes of its kind that can celebrate the ordinary and in doing so both entertain and command intrigue.
The past week's programmes have been top notch. Loved it all.