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Coronation Street fans say 'shame on you TVNZ!'

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Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:17a.m.

Many younger fans were insulted by TVNZ's inference that only elderly people were watching the show (AAP)

Many younger fans were insulted by TVNZ's inference that only elderly people were watching the show (AAP)

Diehard Coronation Street fans have mounted a virtual war with TVNZ over plans to slice up the long-running soap and shift it to an earlier time slot.

Lovers of the British drama have taken to the web, with more than 1500 putting their names to an online petition demanding the public broadcaster retract plans to replace it with MasterChef Australia.

Under the changes announced on Wednesday, TVNZ said the one-hour Coronation Street show would be knocked from its 7.30pm time slot on Tuesdays and Thursday and will instead screen in 30-minute segments every day at 5.30pm.

The Australian cooking show, which previously aired before the 6pm news, will now screen nightly at 7.30pm.

The change, effective October 17, has outraged fans who make their gripes abundantly clear - 5.30pm is too early and they have no interest in watching a "stupid" reality TV show.

"Have you not learnt anything from meddling with coro in the past??" wrote Craig Bell.

"Shame on you TVNZ!!"

Dianne was even more to the point. "Are they insane? A friggin ozzy cooking show, who cares!"

Many younger fans were insulted by TVNZ's inference that only elderly people were watching the show, so the earlier time slot would suit them.

"TVNZ executives may be home at 5.30pm but most others are still heading there," GK Taylor said. "Get real."

Even rest homes are getting involved, with one worker writing that the show is one of the few things residents have to look forward to.

Catherine Clews said the switch would move it into competition with her elderly mother's other favourite soap, Home and Away.

"She lives in Christchurch, has a broken house, lost her baby sister because of the February earthquake, and now you want to make her choose which one of her beloved soaps she can't watch!"

TVNZ has been unrepentant, saying MasterChef was extremely popular last year.

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07 Nov 2011 12:24p.m.

Jon wrote:

TV1 leaves much to be desired at the best of times. Thank God for SkyHDI. My partner who is a Coro fan has just noticed this week's Coro is going back to old time slot but seems it's just Thursday and Friday. Chance would be a fine thing that TV1 would ever listen to its viewers.

04 Nov 2011 09:38a.m.

maureen soakes wrote:

What is appening next week? I noticed in a TV guide that ext week at 5.30 on one it says TBA (To be advised). Is this the begining of the end? I will NOT watch another cooking programme..to many of those...so now, instead of watching one news I turn over to 3.
Take notice of your viewers TVNZ..we WANT CORO not AND AUSSIE COOKING SHOW.

27 Oct 2011 09:41p.m.

lynda clark wrote:

have been watching 3 news and campbell live since tvnz changed the coro street time slot, have always watched one news until now, but wont any more - actually quite enjoying the change

22 Oct 2011 12:27a.m.

barenz wrote:

Goodness me has tv one a death wish, or maybe they have been infiltrated by a tv three plant, with a seek and destroy mission. Well done!! mission acomplished. Paul gone,coro gone, ME GONE!!!!!

18 Oct 2011 01:53p.m.

Colleen Carpenter wrote:

Put it back to 7.30 P L E A S E!!!!!!!

16 Oct 2011 03:51p.m.

Mike wrote:

High time TVNZ got the kick in the butt it so richly deserves for treating Coronation Street fans with contempt. My family will from Monday 17th of October be watching 3 News not just 5 but 7 nights a week and will not be switching back to One for another poxy cooking program! TVNZ IS GOING DOWN!!!

13 Oct 2011 02:56p.m.

Deborah wrote:

Please put Coronation Street back to 730pm. We are all over reality TV, it might be cheap to make but its rubbish! No more cooking shows please. 530pm is not an appropriate time slot for Coronation Street. Which is why it should stay at 730pm, as it has for years!! Shame on you TVNZ, what are you thinking. I will be switching to TV3. There is very little to watch on TV1 as it is!!

12 Oct 2011 10:54p.m.

trish wrote:

Have just come back from the UK to find that TVNZ are changing Coro St to 5.30 & in its place are showing MasterChef Australia. This is absolutely ridiculous. Change Coro back to 7.30, when most people have had dinner & can sit back & relax to watch their, & it's my, favourite prgram. After MasterChef finishes, what will take its place at 7.30? It had better be Coronation Street. I had lunch with friends the other day, I asked who watched Masterchef -not one of them, but they all watched Coro.

12 Oct 2011 01:37p.m.

Katarina & Judy wrote:

TV One you got it wrong again. Your just trying to fix something that is not broke. In other words it money gathering for you lot. Leave Coro alone. I to will switch to TV3, Get rid of the overload on cooking shows and reality shows. Get rid of TV ones CEO and put some one in who has common sense.

12 Oct 2011 11:31a.m.

Tim R wrote:

Leave Coro alone...the new time is not suitable for those who enjoy the show, and its content hardly suitable for children either! We certainly don't need yet another boring cooking show at prime viewing times, and the current TV ratings prove this. In a country where obesity is rapidly becoming a serious problem, we don't need people switched back to thinking about food at a time when most will have already eaten....and the recipes are hardly for the calorie counters, and many ingredients won't be in the average pantry.