In August 1983, Pivaro was cast in the British soap opera Coronation Street as Terry Duckworth, the wayward son of the characters Jack and Vera.
[1] The character returned in 2012 to participate in a major storyline involving his estranged son Tommy and his girlfriend Tina McIntyre in which Terry left her to die in a burning railway arch.
Apart from Coronation Street Pivaro made guest appearances in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates as Sergeant Pearce and Expert Witness as killer Colin Wardle.
He has also written and presented documentary films for the BBC Inside Out series, including "Regeneration Game"(2007) which challenged the Government backed Housing Market Renewal programme and criticised its treatment of residents who were forced out of their neighbourhoods to make way for more affluent people.
[4] In 2010, Pivaro presented a lecture at the University of Wolverhampton on his experiences while reporting on regeneration and participated in a special Radio 4 Today programme with Evan Davis where he criticised the Media City development at Salford Quays.
Following nearly twenty years as a jobbing actor, Pivaro returned to his first love of history and politics, entering Salford University as a mature student in 1999.
Pivaro is an obsessional map enthusiast and frequently refuses to use satellite navigation systems despite driving thousands of miles to assignment destinations.