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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Michael Black  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 6 May 2015, Your Name wrote:   
   > > In article , Rhino   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >> On 2015-05-05 12:39 AM, anim8rFSK wrote:   
   > >>> In article ,   
   > >>>   Rhino  wrote:   
   > >>>> On 2015-05-04 8:13 PM, jeebz@invalid.lan wrote:   
   > >>>>> On Mon, 04 May 2015 18:21:53 -0400, David  wrote:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>    
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>> The longest-running scripted show in television history, THE SIMPSONS   
   > >>>>>> exploded into a cultural phenomenon in 1990   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I watch hardly any TV and yet even I know that there are longer   
   > >>>>> running scripted shows on TV than the Simpsons.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> That's correct. The definition that you've cited omits (or implies)   
   > >>>> another condition that affects which shows meet the definition: it has   
   > >>>> to be an American show. And a second condition: it has to be a   
   > >>>> prime-time series.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> For example, the British series, Coronation Street, began in 1960 which   
   > >>>> means it has been running for 55 years (and presumably 55 seasons).   
   > >    
   > >   
   > > Coronation Street is a weekday evening soap opera, so it's basically   
   > > continuous and doesn't have "seasons" / "series" breaks.   
   >   
   > But Coronation Street probably is the winner for the tv series that has   
   > changes so much.  Not a surprise given its length on the air, but also a   
   > surprise.   
   >   
   > I remember it as being so blurry and black and white, almost crude.  I   
   > could never follow any of it, but that was in the sixties, my grandmother   
   > watched it.  It seemed like a little world.   
   >   
   > It's a surprise to stumble upon it now, it's all looking so modern.  And   
   > all the problems of the world are right there.  It's no longer all-white,   
   > or a world where the working class go off to work and then sit in the pub   
   > after hours.  I still don't watch it, but it looks more like they are part   
   > of a larger world.   
      
   It has changed with the times, it simply wouldn't have survived it it   
   had stayed "blurry black and white". These days there's even spin-off   
   webisodes on the BBC website.   
      
   As characters have left, new characters have been brought in, but the   
   actor who plays the character Ken Barlow has been there since the first   
   episode and is still there playing the same role ... so it's not only   
   the longest running TV show, but also has the longest running actor in   
   the same role.   
      
      
   The BBC also made the longest running TV comedy show, "Last of the   
   Summer Wine" (I did post before how many season it had, but can't be   
   bothered looking ti up again). That was a scripted and season based   
   show. It also had a prequel show spin-off (imaginatively called "First   
   of the Summer Wine") and there are rumours of a new spin-off.   
      
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