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Corrie in Crisis! ITV bosses left with a 'huge headache' after failing to find a boss for the legendary soap as fans ditch it in their droves

But Coronation Street , the 64-year-old ITV soap, is in chaos after the channel have failed to find a boss to run it.

But so far, he has failed to entice anyone to manage the show, which is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, after Iain McLeod left the position of Coronation Street’s boss for a bigger role at the broadcaster after six years last week. In recent years, Corrie, which still stars William Roache as Ken Barlow, and has come under fire for abandoning its loyal audience, its obsession with younger characters and a number of ‘unbelievable’ plot lines. Speaking on the Beyond The Title podcast, she continued: ‘Whereas back then you had the freedom to put Martha [Longhurst], Minnie [Caldwell] and Ena [Sharples] in the snug and have a conversation about Ben-Hur.

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