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Bethany Platt
Bethany Platt is a fictional character from the Television in the United Kingdom, British ITV (TV network), ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. She was born on-screen during the episode broadcast on 4 June 2000. She was played by Mia Cookson in 2000 and by twins Amy and Emily Walton from 2000 until 30 December 2007, when the character departed. The character was reintroduced with Lucy Fallon taking over the role, and Bethany made her return on 20 March 2015. On 2 May 2019, Fallon announced that she had quit the show. She filmed her last scene on 16 January 2020 and Bethany departed on 4 March 2020. In August 2023, it was announced that Fallon would be reprising the role after three years away. Bethany returned on 31 December 2023. In February 2025, Fallon went on maternity leave after the birth of her second child. She is expected to return in late 2025. Bethany is the daughter of established character Sarah Platt (Tina O'Brien) and her classmate Neil Fearns (Paul Holowaty), ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' (colloquially referred to as ''Corrie'') is a British television soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres on a cobbled, terraced street in the fictional town of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester. The location was itself based on Salford, the hometown of the show's first screenwriter and creator, Tony Warren. Originally broadcast twice weekly, ''Coronation Street'' increased its runtime in later years, currently airing three 60-minute episodes per week. Warren developed the concept for the series, which was initially rejected by Granada's founder Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, Sidney Bernstein. Producer Harry Elton convinced Bernstein to commission 13 pilot episodes. The show has since become a significant part of British culture and underpinned the success of its producing Granada franchise. Currently produced by ITV Studios, the successor to Granada, the seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Tilsley
Nick Tilsley (also Platt, also known as Nicky) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. He was born off screen during an episode broadcast on 31 December 1980, but made his first appearance on 5 January 1981. He was played by Warren Jackson from 1981 until 6 September 1996. Adam Rickitt took over the role on 15 October 1997 until 21 April 1999 but returned for three separate stints between 2002 and 2004 and made his final appearance as Nick on 11 July 2004. Ben Price took over the role on 21 December 2009. Price announced his intentions to leave the serial on 26 January 2017, before making his on-screen departure on 2 June 2017. However, on 23 April 2018, it was announced that Price would reprise his role as Nick, and he returned on 12 October 2018. Nick is the first-born child of Brian ( Christopher Quinten) and Gail Tilsley ( Helen Worth). He is the older brother of Sarah Platt ( Tina O'Brien) and older half-brother of David Platt ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Quinten
Christopher Quinten (born Christopher Bell; 12 July 1957) is a British actor, best known for his role as Brian Tilsley on ''Coronation Street'', which he played from 1978 to 1989. Career Quinten started his career as a dancer in West End productions, including the Victoria Palace with Cilla Black and Jimmy Tarbuck. He turned to acting and had his first role in the 1978 film '' International Velvet'', starring Tatum O'Neal. This appearance led to small parts in television series including '' Quatermass'' and '' Hazell'', and was also noticed by the ''Coronation Street'' casting offices, who gave Ivy Tilsley, the oft-seen Baldwin's worker, a son. Quinten was then signed to the programme, for which he worked for over a decade. His pairing with Gail Potter (played by Helen Worth) proved very popular for the serial in the 1980s. In 1989, Quinten told the casting office that he was going to move to the United States to marry his fiancée, American talk show host Leeza Gibbons. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Worth
Helen Worth (born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth; 7 January 1951) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Gail Platt in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' for 50 years from 1974 to 2024. In 2014, she received the British Soap Award for Outstanding Achievement. Worth was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Early life Worth was born to Alfred and Gladys Wigglesworth in Ossett and grew up in Morecambe, Lancashire. She was brought up in a middle-class family and attended private school. Her mother was killed in a hit-and-run road accident in 1971. Career After graduating from drama school, Worth worked in repertory theatre, which included a year with the BBC Radio repertory company. It was during her stage debut as Brigitta in ''The Sound of Music'' that she shortened her name following concerns from the show's leading stars that her birth name would be too prominent on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Holowaty
Paul Holowaty (born 7 March 1985) is an English actor. He was born in Bolton, and is probably most well known for his role as racist bully Steven "Macki" Mackintosh in popular soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. In 2010, he made his West End debut in the musical Wolfboy at the Trafalgar Studios in London. He made his debut on American television in 2016 appearing in NCIS. He is currently filming a series regular role in a new series about EDM DJs called CVNT5, written by and starring Gareth Emery. Career In 2000, he appeared in ''Coronation Street'' as Sarah Platt's boyfriend Neil Fearns - he got her pregnant with daughter Bethany aged 13; but he was killed in a road accident in 2003. In April 2005, he was cast as a non-regular character Macki in ''Hollyoaks''. Story lines that involved him include blowing up the science lab, the racist bullying of Ali and Darlene Taylor and getting fatally stabbed by Ali before Ali himself was killed by an oncoming car. He appeared in 30 episodes. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina O'Brien
Tina Michelle O'Brien (born 7 August 1983) is an English actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Sarah Platt in the long-running ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (1999–2008, 2015–present). She also appeared in the BBC One drama series '' Waterloo Road'' (2010–2011). Career Born in Rusholme, Manchester, England, O'Brien was educated at Trinity C.E. High School. Her early acting roles included ''Children's Ward'' in 1997, '' The Cops'' in 1998 and '' Clocking Off'' in 2000. At the age of sixteen, she joined ''Coronation Street'' in October 1999, taking over the role of Sarah Platt from actress Lynsay King. Sarah's pregnancy with Bethany Platt won O'Brien Best Storyline at the British Soap Awards. She also won Best Newcomer at the National Television Awards and the ''TV Quick'' Awards. Her first role after leaving ''Coronation Street'' was in the 2007 pantomime at Manchester Opera House, where she played the title character of Cinderella. Her first television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its initial launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Internet forum, Forum. History (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform Sky (UK and Ireland), SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ITV Digital, ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting many visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In The United Kingdom
Television broadcaster, Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the Mechanical television#Television demonstrations, first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view and Pay television, subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky Electronic program guide, EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there are basically 485 TV channels, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010 for consumers as well as On demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivy Tilsley
Ivy Joan Tilsley (originally credited as Ivy Tyldesley, also Nelson and later Brennan) is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Played by Lynne Perrie, Ivy first appeared on-screen on 14 June 1971, initially on a recurring basis, before becoming a regular in 1979. As the character continued development, Ivy's stringent religious beliefs would become a synonymous part of her storylines on the show. Before becoming a regular character, much of Ivy's backstory is inconsistent; in her early appearances her husband was referred to as "Arthur", "Wilf" (with the surname "Tyldesley") and " Jack" (Bert Gaunt), who went on to appear in the show in 1975, after Ivy had stated she and Jack were childless. By the time she became a street resident and a more regular character, her husband was named " Bert" ( Peter Dudley) and they had an adult son, Brian ( Christopher Quinten). Ivy is the grandmother of Nick Tilsley (Warren Jackson) and Sarah Platt (Lynsay a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Shuttleworth
''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2020, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Iain MacLeod. The first character to be introduced is Danny Tomlinson (Dylan Brady), a love interest of James Bailey (Nathan Graham), in February. In March, Arthur Medwin (Paul Copley) was introduced as a love interest for Evelyn Plummer (Maureen Lipman), and April saw the arrival of an old friend of Johnny Connor (Richard Hawley), Scott Emberton (Tom Roberts), as well as the ex-wife of Rick Neelan ( Greg Wood), Laura Neelan (Kel Allen). Nicky Wheatley ( Kimberly Hart-Simpson) made her first appearance in June as a new love interest for Daniel Osbourne ( Rob Mallard). The former partner of Geoff Metcalfe (Ian Bartholomew) and biological mother of Tim Metcalfe ( Joe Duttine), Elaine Jones (Paula Wilcox), made her first appearance in July, and George Shut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
