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Coronation Street
     
Coronation Street
one of the most popular programmes on British television, which has been shown continuously since 1960. It is a soap opera set in an industrial city in northern England and its characters are working-class people who live in a street called Coronation Street. People sometimes informally call it "Corrie".
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