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Critic who said Corrie wouldn't last reflects on show reaching 60th anniversary

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When I wrote that first TV crit on Coronation Street in the Daily Mirror – in December 1960 – I was a very young critic. But I can’t make that an excuse.

For those who can remember the first few episodes, they were pretty awful. At least, I thought so. Here’s what I wrote: “Young scriptwriter Tony Warren claims to have spent a couple of months going around meeting the ordinary people of the North before he wrote the first episodes of Granada’s serial Coronation Street. “Frankly, I can’t believe it.

If he did, he certainly spent his time with the wrong folk. There is little reality in his new serial, which, apparently, we will have to suffer twice a week.

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