As many of you will know my big bang-a-drum has long been trying to get information on whether CS is likely to be released to DVD/Streaming at some point in the near future from the beginning!

Unfortunately, another setback has occurred. Contact with Networkonair has revealed they are not planning on releasing either CS, or for those of you who've been watching the ED releases so far - any more ED.

Obviously the usual "keep on eye on the website, this might change" was added, but it seems soaps are simply not where the moneys at for them as far as they are concerned. It's a shame as a full release of CS would be something most of us here at DS could get behind, and I'm sure if they were priced appropriately would buy.

This, combined with previous contact with the CS team themselves to confirm that they do not intend to release it in-house can only leave us with the unfortunate conclusion there is absolutely no plans to release the archive for general sale.

Out of interest how many episodes of Emmerdale and Corrie have their been?

Roughly:

Coronation Street: 8982
Emmerdale: 7585
Neighbours: 7425
Home and Away: 6485
EastEnders: 5344
Hollyoaks: 4445
Doctors: 3191

However these figures are a bit of a misnomer as they run up to near enough the latest episodes. Nobodies asking the archive to include that many episodes. Personally I think up to five or ten years ago would be sufficient, with episodes then added on once it becomes five or ten years after their broadcast.

up to September 2006 there'd been 6370 episodes of Coronation Street
up to September 2011 there'd been 7680 episodes of Coronation Street

What i'd love is for Corrie to come out and give one of the following statements to clear it up;

"We can't do it for contractual reasons/copyright laws!" or
"We could do it, but we do not want to at this time"

At least we'd know why they're locking the gift horse up then.

For percieved volume of sales its probably not worth the costs through clearance/ rights issues plus all the duplication of the archive stock?
I think some lesser titles are piggybacked off better selling titles so that they haven't needed a separate budget- Network in particular have worked miracles in this regard, with a fantastic range of stuff out on DVD.

I suspect/hope that we might get a Coronation Street 2010s box set in 3-4 years time in line with the other decade box sets. Unless they didn't sell well?

Surely they could afford to rebroadcast it though, which they have no plans too.

Also, they're repeatedly removing old episodes from YouTube so clearly view the rights as valuable for whatever reason, if they're valuable to warrant spending hours of man power removing them from an online rival, they're valuable enough to release to an online streaming archive or DVD (the archive that was available on Corrie, albiet edited down copies for Granada+ stretched from 1976 to the mid 1990s).

Ideally either a streamed archive or yearly box-sets should be released - at a reasonable price, with these going down to six monthly as the number of episodes increases.

I understand that at the end of the day, we as fans have absolutely no right whatsoever to see the archived episodes, but it would be nice to be able to do so.

It is disappointing, especially with how many with channels depicting full episodes are recently being shut down on Youtube.

Wish the Corrie official Youtube channel would upload more classic clips, rather than just recent ones.

They could always just upload the old episodes straight to YT on the official channel.

If only....
Don't know about the earlier stuff but absolutely everything from the 00s has gone from YouTube now, that was in episode format!!

Simply don't understand how it can have been alright for it to have been there all this time without copyright issues, yet suddenly we have 'multiple copyright complaints' & all that brilliant rich history just banished into obscurity, possibly forever!!

If iirc anyone can file a youtube copyright complaint, they don't have to be involved in the project, so we could be in a situation where a single-busybody with very tentative, if no, links to the show are taking it down.

Most of the Granada+ collection is gone, excepting re-uploads - that covered 1976 to the mid-1990s.

The original 13 episodes, which had been on there for donkeys years appear to have been removed or at least some of them have.

I don't think so. I can't find it now but I'm sure it says somewhere on YT that you have to be an official representative of ITV to report copyright issues.

I don't know how copyright striking works on Youtube, but either somebody hates Corrie and is flagging videos to stir trouble or ITV are on a mission to remove many traces of the old episodes pre-2014. It is no coincidence many of these channels have suddenly been shut down, especially those who haven't uploaded anything or been active for several years.

It's all disappointing. I'd rather watch these old episodes than the current dross.

They only seem interested in uploading stuff mostly from 2013 onwards. Rarely do you see any old things on their channel.

Its such a shame

In the age of on demand viewing and box sets, it's mind-boggling to me that all of these shows that they don't deem to have much commercial value aren't already uploaded to streaming services so they can at least make some ad revenue from the small number of views that it does get. Sitting on a shelf locked away in the archives, it's not making a penny.