British writer Tony Warren, who created the long-running soap opera "Coronation Street," has died at 79. The show he leaves behind is 56 years old, a national cultural fixture whose fans have included royalty, poets, rappers and millions of TV viewers. Broadcaster ITV said Wednesday that Warren died Tuesday night, "surrounded by his loving friends," after a short illness. Anthony McVay Simpson — Warren was a stage name — was a 24-year-old actor when he had the idea for a television series set in a working-class street in northwestern England, where he had grown up....
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