Frost to replace Wood on Coronation Street

Former Emmerdale producer Steve Frost has landed one of the most important programme-making jobs in British TV - overseeing Granada's flagship ITV1 soap Coronation Street.

Mr Frost, who has most recently been overseeing ITV1's Heartbeat spinoff, The Royal, will take over the reins from Tony Wood at the beginning of next year.

Mr Wood has been in charge of Coronation Street's Manchester-based production operation since the beginning of 2004. He is tipped to move to Mersey TV, the company behind Hollyoaks, as creative director.

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