Coronation Street (series)

Coronation Street, also referred to as Corrie, is a British television soap opera created by Tony Warren and produced for ITV. It follows the lives of the down-to-Earth, working class community of the titular, cobbled street in the fictional Greater Manchester town of Weatherfield.

Launched at the end of 1960, the series is a major facet of British culture; it is recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's longest-running soap opera. It is currently fifteenth longest running television series in the world, coming in fifteen places ahead of Doctor Who, which premiered just under three years after the soap. Corrie broadcast its 10'000th episode on 7 February 2020, during the broadcast of Series 12 of Doctor Who.

Crossovers
The two shows may be broadcast on rival networks, but official crossovers between Doctor Who and Corrie have occurred, on both channels, nonetheless.

2011 saw Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor find his way over to ITV for Dermot and the Doctor, the comedic, narrative-based introduction to that year's National Television Awards. The story, in which the Doctor tries to get Dermot O'Leary to the ceremony, sees the TARDIS arriving on the sets of different British shows, including the iconic cobbles, in which the Doctor is shouted at by Kelly McDonald (played by Katherine Kelly), who tells him it is over between them (the implication appearing to be that the two of them had a romantic encounter of some sort) before she storms off into the Rovers Return Inn. A second minor crossover took place in the 2015 webcast, Mind My Minions, this time with the Corrie set showing up on a BBC platform. After the Minions, of Despicable Me fame, hijack the TARDIS, one of the places they take it to is the street, materialising beside the Rovers.

References to Coronation Street in the DWU
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References to Doctor Who on Corrie
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Cast
Before Julie Hesmondhalgh appeared in Kerblam! as Judy Maddox, she was best known for playing from 1998 to 2014.

Shobna Gulati, who played Yasmin Khan's mother, Najia Khan in Arachnids in the UK, played for over a decade from 2001.

Before Katherine Kelly portrayed Andrea Quill on Doctor Who spin-off Class, she had become perhaps most famous for playing Becky McDonald on the soap from 2006 to 2012. Kelly also briefly played the character in Dermot and the Doctor.

Trevor Georges joined the soap in 2019 as Ed Bailey, thirteen years after playing the Vicar in The Runaway Bride.