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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whovian" data-source="post: 407428" data-attributes="member: 57872">Does anyone know if there's any plans at ITV to release Coronation Street from the beginning - maybe on ITVX or a standalone streaming service. I was left pretty disappointed at the re-runs starting at 1986 given the majority of episode before that (particularly 1960-76 which has never been repeated) are completely unavailable to watch, running a full re-run of the soap would have seemed like the best place to start in making them available? Is there some issue with royalties? Are they worried they might too of their time (could just be left up with warnings.) It just seems bonkers to me that this entire era of the show's been written off partly as much of it's in Black and White (ITV seem to hate B&W shows as repeats) . If there not going to show it themselves surely Yesterday /Talking Pictures or another channel off that ilk should be allowed to repeat it for a fair price?It also be nice to have an official streaming platform for the show where the episodes are stored in full quality and uncut rather than a lot of the dodgy recordings and slashed to pieces edited for daytime cuts available on sites like dailymotion/youtube.. If ITV really want to capitalise they could do the same thing for Emmerdale Farm,/Emmerdale.At some point these ITV re-runs are going to get a bit too close to modern Corrie, maybe as a preventive measure of them getting too close they could stop the repeats at the 50th anniversary and then go back to Episode 1 and repeat from their so we can finally have the full show available? We know the archive exists so it seems odd ITV are unwilling to release it.</blockquote>

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