Michael is played by CBeebies House presenter Ryan Russell, while James is played by musical theatre star Nathan Graham.
MacLeod said:"They do, in a fairly British way, rub the neighbours up the wrong way a little bit when they arrive and then Aggie takes offence at something one of her neighbours says and it becomes a little bit of a tit-for-tat war. Although the family have bought their house from long-standing character Norris, played by Malcolm Hebden, the show's producers have stressed that he will still feature on Weatherfield's cobbles in future.
Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)
MichaelCasting If they want to make it real they should have that family being stopped by police all the time just for breathing and looking black
MichaelCasting I guess coronation street is trying. They’ve had Gay,Asia,mix race on the show so I guess it’s time to except us black folks
Tf? This is the FIRST black family?! 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ They better not misrepresent/give them some dumb, stereotypical storyline.
That’s great but what about deaf family with speaking and sign language would be great recognised in the show?
Next a LGBTQ family 🌈👫👭👬😳
Wow! A soap that is set in an ethnically diverse area of Manchester took 59 years to reflect that community, by casting a black family. Better late than never I suppose. Congratualations to LornaLaidlaw.
Wow
Also why turn it into news, we're living in a multicultural environment, making an issue of a black family moving in the street shouldn't be made,you should just simply move them in with no fuss, it's as simple as that really.
I'm not quite sure why there's a big deal made here to be honest,I'd be embarrassed if I was the TV bosses,the street has been going since the early sixties,and this is something to be proud of, only one black family in all those years, it's a disgrace.
Good that makes a change
2019?
Needs a Romanian car wash now
Think you'll find they're a family of colour, not a black family people..... If you feel the need to advertise such utter shyte you should at least do it half properly.
Can’t believe still watch it tbh
I’d like to say in defence of CS they have had plenty of black characters over the 35 years I’ve been watching it. Some very good ones as well played by great actors. This has been completely blown out of proportion. I’m looking forward to the new family regardless of skin colour
Didn't Eastenders have one in 1985? 🤦
🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ this will not go well. Too late. Why bother? Terrible timing with racial tension as currently is. I’m cringing and I don’t even watch the show.
It’s about time to
Yet another reason to switch off....
Soon be a stabbing then
It had better be a good story line !
That’s Mrs Tembe out of BBC Doctors.
I would like to see a Jewish family join
Why has this taken so long & been so clearly overlooked?
Be a while yet before the Polish deli.
LaurieHamilton ... it’s taken this long? 🤨
After the Asian shop keeper, will this lot be drug dealing, knife carrying benefit scroungers? Have to maintain the stereotypes after all!
This comes off the back of John snows “white people in one place “ remark
I got really emotional just reading this.. look like a lovely family too.
Why has it taken so long?
There’ll be a black person in Midsummer Murders next. Hopefully neither a victim or murderer. Perhaps he could run the village shop. Open all hours presumably.
Took waaaaayyyyy to long...
Pathetic.
It’s really taken THAT long
Mrs Tembe !!!!
The show programme been goin on since 1960 how is this only jus happening they have had gay and lesbians an Indian family all before a black family
About time coronation Street got with diversity👍👏
It's only been on since 1960. But, who's counting?
This'll be epic, Titanic.
Be interesting to see how diverse the rest of TV is? EquityUK SupportBritish
Why isn’t there a Turkish barbers shop? My town has loads 🤔
Another slow day lads and lasses.....
It’s about time !
Vile.
It's taken this long for that! ? It's embarrassing not a celebration
Which proves how out of touch they have been for years
Fascinating 🙄
There goes the property values then.... 😂😂
Hopefully at least one is gender neutral
Oh my god we still living in the 60's.
Amazed people still watch that tripe.
How about a family of Klingons?
Nice one. Next to have diversity in the ranks is the university boat races – seeing a minority making the actual cut. Oxford vs Cambridge to take a heed.
How has it taken this long!
More disabled and LGBT representation would be great
Soaps used to be for entertainment now we can't get rid of all the stuff we want to get away from for half hour in the evening!
So did Craig Charles not feature?
Why is this news? Should just be normal.
Welcome to the recist show
Was sterling and Danny rose consulted
Kinda ridiculous it took them this long
Tenner on a stabbing in the street within a week...
Oh ffs. This kind of thing is always marked as some kind of milestone, some victory against oppression. There are so many workplaces which are bame only. I see plenty of African and Asian tv output - never a white face to be seen. The dual standards are sickening.
Knife crime gonna go through the roof on the street
Wow...
That would be the end of the neighbourhood in many areas I know.
Inevitable!
Sad that you have to mention the skin colour and that itvcorrie are only now showing diversity in their show in 2019 🤨 there are all kinds of family’s and mixed ones too catchup sad
Also I think Des will be upset to find out he and his kid's ain't black ! isn't this a bit racist ? actually I think I've used the word BIT wrongly ! should be gigantically racist !
Wow 😮 2019 and this is supposedly progress? FFS, how late?
How progressive
Where is the Polish shop?
Long overdue
What colour is Des his kids and former dead wife ?
Expect knife crime to increase on the street.
I think this is brilliant but i dont care for how it has been phrased i am not all politically correct but i dont think it is quite right considering all the racism that we are currently seeing in the football terraces I see the family the human beings fo we really need to put
Coronation Street is still on?
Only now u got the 1st black family... No way I knew there was a reason I don't watch this trash
And what about Non Binary families?
Bring back the Grove Family.
I am right in saying it's 2019 and not 1959 right?
What a shame, I can only dream...
It’s always been a pile of rubbish no matter who’s in it.. that along with the rest of the soaps !! Get outside and do something worth while and turn the box off !!
This is an astonishing piece of information: 'Coronation Street introduces first black family in the show's history' …
well done corrie - meter to be massively later than never! 😂
More crime, more multiculturalism is forced upon people using television programs !!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Apparently... They've stolen the show 🤭
Now time to turn the channel over when it comes on. Who wants to watch lesbians and homosexuals tonguing it at 7.30 pm and now this. PC gone mad.
We want Latvians
Fact this is a story says it all!..
2011 census of the 64 million people in the UK black African and mix make up less then 3% the Asian (all ind pak Chinese ect) make up less the 5% not EU thought worth putting it out there 😜! Get worse, less on demographic and mix race data. Oh jobs and business also. Good read
Viewer ratings will plummet.
So if the programme represent society will they also be showing us the statistically proven facts that knife crime, gun crime, drug crime, gang crime is massively & disproportionately committed by the the Black community. Or will they avoid these negative truths like the plague
So what
Yawn😴
First black family in 2019. Crikey.
It’s not the first what about all the Indians they’re black.
Why is there not a Chinese family? We've had the Indian Muslims.There should he an Indian, Chinese takeaway next the fish n chip shop in the show! Lmao! Politicalticlly correctness gone mad! Oh well..🤣🤣
Should be called Canal Street there's so many gays living there or perhaps Prison Street as most characters have served time.
MonikaMill
People talk about racism yet sky news are the one’s making a thing about race all the time......
Who gets stabbed first?
Don't watch nonsense would rather watch paint dry
What took so long? Piss take!!!!
Don't watch it ,too many kids init
PaulSandars Fantastic... 👍
How cheesey is that
Better late than never
KTHopkins BorisJohnson & Jacob_Rees_Mogg as well as their lovers NickFerrariLBC & Tommy Robinson must be fuming 😤 😤😤.
They could've atleast made it realistic and not included a dad
But still no black transgender disabled bi polar Muslim refugee family in poverty who can’t speak English. Come on script writers there a niche to fill in !
Were the 'Asian' family white then?
Oh well
Is that the dad? 🤷🏼♂️😂
I can’t wait to watch the cliches come flooding in.
Wow they really are at the forefront of ground breaking drama.
Yeah! But I don't watch it!
All crimes on the show will be blamed on them then! 🙄
Smdh 🤦🏾♂️
Is there enough Mixed Race child actors about to cope with the number of births from the affairs the cast have?
And?
So?
Look at all the racists coming out of the woodwork on this post 🤦🏻♂️
How about a family of EU citizens, all employed, not claiming benefits, paying a mortgage, participating in the school PTA and staunch supporters of Team GB?
Is this a tweet from 1989!
It’s about time isn’t it
Yeh, so what, we are a multi cultural society, so why does this even need to be said.
Why? Black people don't live in England. This this does not represent the U.K. and I'm furious. Meanwhile, nobody mentioned the Costa coffee shop did they?
Ffs you'd think aliens had landed 🤑
Are they gonna commit 50 percent of violent crimes?
Ffs even little Emmerdale has a black family. Speaks volumes about our country.
That’s the neighbourhood gone now😉
The fucking boomers won't be happy.
/ One is very sure Black People have being living in Manchester decades before now ?
Wow! Diversity init
The question is what storyline will they have? Here we go AGAIN with the stereotypes!!!!
Better late than never I suppose
And water is wet, how is this news 😂
Is that soap still going, haven’t seen it since the 70s......
CBeebies guy!
What they still using coal fires 😂🤣
Just a decade or two behind time
Welcome to Lorna Laidlaw, we’re missing you from Doctors!
KTHopkins , BorisJohnson & Jacob_Rees_Mogg as well as their lovers NickFerrariLBC must be fuming 😤
Applause to Corrie's progressive step: it's 2019 and this has happened. Thank god this hit the news; it's about time a black family was introduced to a street. In Manchester. In the 21st century. In this diverse city.
Am surprised they didn't go with a EU family
About time
They're going to lose all the EDL/UKIP viewers
They say a black family but if you look closely the Asian cast are very much the same in skin tones 🤔
Eastender's but oop Norf: More unwatchable than ever!
No doubt the EU will be blamed for forcing this unwanted measure onto CoronationStreet fans who were happily meeting diversity quotas by being deaf & blind! Brexit satire
TOMMORBRITISH1 Machete attacks all over the street, knife crime to quadruple
Took 50+ years but hey.... 😎
The fact that sly thought this was news speaks volumes!
Brookside did the race angle two decades ago getwiththetimes
A young black, gay footballer. OK😒
Vs Eastenders!
Very good and nice.Pozdr.k
Will they be having graaaaaaaaaaaaavy with their rice n pea?
Fast forward 5 years- The mum had an affair and works in the Rovers, the dad died in a terrible but suspicious kitchen appliance accident, one of the Sons is transgender and called Beyoncé and the other Son gets sent down for calling his brother a 'He'. True story.
2019? WTF!
Do people still watch this?
Bring back Les Battersby
Ridiculous and this is suppose to make news that black people should be roaring with gratitude that a black family is being introduced on the show. GTFOH.
Won’t make the show anymore watchable will it. Can’t believe people actually like soaps. Shite acting and shite stories. Embarrassing 🚮💩
Ffs is this really news? Why keep perpetuating the racist stereotype of the British white people. It makes everyone look cheap.
Is this supposed to be a proud moment? Given the huge black community in the Manchester area, to say it is overdue is an understatement and yet another example of underrepresentation of BAME people in one of our longest serving tv institutions
Theyll be teacher, doctor, lawyer and architect
Wow 2019. Welcome to the real world. shocking
Freshco better get some chicken stocked up
In 2019 Fuck me
Hi! We’re the tokens!
About time. Crazy that this even has to be news, it should be a given.
About time
'Diversity' means chasing down the last white person. 'Diversity' is a codeword for white genocide.
The fact this makes news speaks even louder ....
It’s only 2019 but hey
Why black? Why not Chinese?
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