Background Document: Coronation Street and Emmerdale on YouTube ### Introduction ITV's iconic British soap operas, Coronation Street and Emmerdale, have launched two new YouTube accounts, Coronation Street Rewind and Emmerdale Rewind, to bring classic episodes to modern audiences worldwide (Yahoo Entertainment, 2023). ### Coronation Street and Emmerdale Coronation Street, created by Tony Warren, first aired on December 9, 1960, and is set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in the north of England (BBC, n. d.). Emmerdale, created by Phil Redmond, first aired on October 16, 1978, and is set in the fictional village of Emmerdale, in Yorkshire (ITV, n. d.). ### Phil Redmond and the Emmerdale Plane Crash Phil Redmond CBE, creator of Brookside for Channel 4, was brought in to revitalize Emmerdale, which was struggling at the time (The Guardian, 2011). Redmond's solution was to have a plane crash into the farming village, changing the trajectory of the show forever.
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