Youth talk

The man who brought to life television’s longest-running soap opera passed away last week after a short illness.

Tony Warren, 79, created Coronation Street when he was just 24 in 1960 and created a foundation for a endless run of screenings.

Due to its addictive storylines from its enriched characters, it moved from an initial seven- episode run to a series recently hitting more than 8,850 episodes.

UK is saturated with soap operas and some viewers are speculating whether more ‘interesting’ and ‘fresh’ alternatives will come to the fore along the lines of the US success Breaking Bad.

Coronation Street gives viewers an insight into the lives of the people living in the fictional district of Weatherfield, in the northwest of England. It is regularly screened in Bahrain too.

TV critics suggest shows such as the Street and its London version EastEnders are losing their appeal because of a constant revival of characters played by different actors, and, honestly, the amount of natural disasters that happen is, quite clearly, very unnatural.

Seriously, how many murders, fires, explosions, car (and train) crashes does a small area have to experience? However, I believe that the death of the soap era is not close due to the fact that my grandma (and editor) cannot go a week without ‘watching some Corrie’.

Soaps are a part of people’s lives because they are a harmless escape from our own.