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==Programmes==
[[File:Rovers Return tour.jpg|thumb|left|The ''[[Coronation Street]]'' set at the [[Granada Studios Tour]] ]]
In 1958, Granada Television broadcast coverage of the [[1958 Rochdale by-election]], the first election to be covered on television in Britain.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Manchester on TV: Ghosts of Winter Hill |quote=1958: Rochdale by-election is first British election to be televised |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/manchester/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8332000/8332589.stm |work=BBC |date=30 October 2009 |access-date=5 July 2011}}</ref> Granada's coverage was broad in scope, and it also broadcast two candidate debates.<ref>{{Cite news |title=The 1950s – TV election – yet another first for pioneering town |url=http://menmedia.co.uk/rochdaleobserver/news/s/333158_the_1950s |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |date=11 June 2003 |access-date=5 July 2011 |archive-date=12 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112192146/http://menmedia.co.uk/rochdaleobserver/news/s/333158_the_1950s |url-status=dead }}</ref> Over 50 years later, Granada Studios hosted the first General Election debate among the leaders of the three main political parties.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Granada's boldness was seen in ambitious documentaries such as ''[[Seven Up!]]'', which premiered in 1964. The programme was a social experiment which followed the lives of 14 British children aged seven. It tracked their lives at seven-year intervals to discover whether their hopes and aspirations had been achieved. The documentary was voted the greatest ever by esteemed filmmakers and its latest installment, ''63 Up'', premiered in 2019. ''Seven Up'' was part of the ''[[World in Action]]'' documentary series between 1963 and 1998, which won awards but was controversial. It garnered a reputation for hard-hitting investigative journalism and its producer [[Gus Macdonald]] commented that the programme was "born brash".<ref name="worldin">{{Cite news |title=World in Action – British news documentary |last=Jones |first=Judith |url=http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=worldinacti |access-date=1 July 2011 |archive-date=14 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514045925/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=worldinacti |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Paul Greengrass]] said that [[David Plowright]] told him, "don't forget, your job's to make trouble."<ref name="maketrouble">{{cite news |title=A whirlwind in action |last=Armstrong |first=Stephen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/09/itv.television |newspaper=The Guardian |date=9 June 2008 |access-date=1 July 2011}}</ref> ''World in Action'' demonstrated hard-hitting investigative journalism and explored issues such as police corruption at the Metropolitan Police in 1985 and the Royal Family's tax loophole in 1991.<ref name="worldin"/> The programme led a campaign to prove the innocence of the [[Birmingham Six]] in 1985 when researcher [[Chris Mullin (politician)|Chris Mullin]] questioned the convictions; by 1991 the men had been released from prison.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lissaman |first=Clare |title=Birmingham Six release remembered |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12664938 |publisher=BBC News |date=14 March 2011 |access-date=4 July 2011}}</ref>

The classic northern working-class soap opera, ''[[Coronation Street]]'', began a thirteen-week, twice weekly regional run of half-hour episodes on 9 December 1960. It is still produced at the rate of three one-hour peak-time episodes a week after over sixty years, and is the longest-running television soap opera in the world.<ref>{{cite news |last=Youngs |first=Ian |title=Coronation Street goes into anti-leak lockdown |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11409278 |publisher=BBC News |date=24 September 2010 |access-date=23 June 2011}}</ref> Such set-pieces as ''[[Siege Week]]'' and ''[[Coronation Street Live (2010 episode)|the 2010 Tram Crash]]'' were filmed at the studio. The company also produced gritty drama series such as ''[[A Family at War]]'' (1970–72), set during the Second World War.

Granada produced ''[[The Stars Look Down (TV serial)|The Stars Look Down]]'' (1975), ''[[Laurence Olivier Presents]]'' (1976–78), ''[[Brideshead Revisited (TV series)|Brideshead Revisited]]'' (1981), the multi-award-winning ''[[Disappearing World (TV series)|Disappearing World]]'' series (between 1969 and 1993) and, from 1984, ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' and ''[[The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)|The Jewel in the Crown]]'' for an international audience.  These shows were sold overseas by ''Granada Television International''.

Another flagship programme, the long-running [[Game show|quiz show]], ''[[University Challenge]]'' was originally aired between 1962 and 1987. It was revived by the BBC in 1994 but still produced by Granada. The company produced ''[[The Krypton Factor]]'' between 1977 and 1995 (revived by ITV in 2009). One of Granada's longest-running programmes, ''[[What The Papers Say]]'', was broadcast by Granada in 1956, was taken over by the BBC in the early 1990s, and later by [[Channel 4]]. The programme introduced the idea of discussing what the newspapers were reporting, continued by ''[[Sunday Supplement]]'' and ''[[The Wright Stuff]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=What The Papers Say: 50 years |last=Brockman |first=David |url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/behindthescreens/what_the_papers.php |work=transdiffusion.org |year=2006 |access-date=1 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608124944/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/behindthescreens/what_the_papers.php |archive-date=8 June 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In the 1970s, Granada produced [[situation comedies]], often based around life in the north-west, including ''[[Nearest and Dearest]]'', ''[[The Lovers (1970 TV series)|The Lovers]]'' and ''[[The Cuckoo Waltz]],'' followed by ''[[The Brothers McGregor]]'' and ''[[Watching (TV series)|Watching]]'' in the 1980s.

Granada drew on 1970s pop music with shows such as ''[[Lift Off with Ayshea]]'' and [[the Bay City Rollers]] show, ''[[Shang-a-Lang (TV series)|Shang-a-lang]]''. Granada's ''[[So It Goes (TV series)|So It Goes]]'' was presented by [[Tony Wilson]] and showcased the punk phenomenon, bringing the [[Sex Pistols]] and [[the Clash]] to TV screens. The station also produced ''Marc'', presented by [[glam rock]] star [[Marc Bolan]]. The show was in production when Bolan was killed in a car accident in 1977. Granada produced ''Allsorts'' from 1989 to 1995 for CITV, featuring Wayne Jackman, Andrew Wightman (who later produced Granada's talent show ''[[Stars in Their Eyes]]''), Virginia Radcliffe, [[Jane Cox]] and [[Julie Westwood]].

Granada Studios produced ''[[The Weekenders (TV pilot)|The Weekenders]]'' (1992), a surreal comedy episode featuring [[Vic Reeves]] and [[Bob Mortimer]].

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