Coronation Street on ITV Part Four

I hope when the show returns after its “break” we find out that Sean and Izzy died from coronavirus.

But Mary survives!

Yeah, I’d want Mary to survive. I like her when the writing doesn’t make her out to be a moron.

The actors who play Abi and Tim have got engaged while in lockdown.

Good for them, they’re a cute couple.

I'm appreciating Corrie more now that there are only three episodes per week.

needs more Billy and Paul

Uhh, no, it doesn’t.

Uhh, no, it doesn’t.

Billy and Paul do nothing for me. The former is an annoying nosy parker, and the latter has that totally distracting smashed nose.

Precisely, R10. That nose is hideous beyond belief. They’re both annoying as hell.

I cried over Eccles, yet none of her family (except for Emma) did. Have they no souls?

Does anybody remember that fucking ridiculous twist where they found out Betty actually owned The Rovers after she died?

I think I'd stopped watching Corrie during that period, R13.

Dang Corrie, the last thing I needed during this quarantine was the death of Eccles.

They made Ken unnecessarily brusque with Emma. Of course it wasn’t her fault that Eccles had to be put down.

Poor Emma is getting shit on by everyone.

I really hope they apologize to her in the upcoming episodes. If Ken wants to blame someone, it should be Claudia.

Emma is sweet but she would get on my nerves after an extended period of time.

What do we think of the retirement home segments?

I can’t stand them, R19. I fast forward through them now although I’ve always liked the actor who played Norris.

Is it wrong that I kind of hope Covid-19 attacks that retirement home and kills everyone except Ken and Norris.

Is that tart Claudia going to cheat with Charles? It made no sense that someone as vivacious as she would want to settle down in a retirement village.

Again, I ask, has Norris mentioned Emily? She was living with Norris and Freida in Scotland, did they just dump her off the side of the road?

Emily’s got that nephew of hers she stays with. The fugly tree hugger who dated Toyah.

R24 Only if she has returned to Peru, that is where Spider is.

Spider could have moved back to London, though, where he lived with Toyah.

I loved Tracy's line tonight when Steve said he just wants a quiet life. And she said "you picked the wrong women for that," meaning she and Leanne.

Jeff gives Yasmin chlamydia.

She stabs him next week, hope its painful x

Will he be in the hospital and have to listen to somebody else doing the DJ-ing? Will Audrey do it again?

The girl who plays Asha is great but the girl who plays Amy is giving a high school drama class performance. They really need to finally get rid of her.

R31 She isn't the worst I've seen, plus you can really imagine her being the daughter of Tracy and Steve.

Looking like them isn’t enough-she makes annoying faces and fake gesticulates all the time.

R33 It's not just looks. While I love Tracy, the actor that plays Steve isn't wonderful and does those annoying faces and things all the time.

[quote] She stabs him next week, hope its painful x

Isn't it a wine bottle to the head?

R35 I'd prefer if she had stuck a broken jagged wine bottle up his ass and twisted it several times.

As much as I hate Geoff, the scene where he asked for a refund because he caught an STI off a prostitute was quite funny.

The writers are doing a decent job with Asha's story.

Imagine gave to have sex with Geoff! Is this what he's spending Yasmeen's pension on?

I HATE, HATE, HATE Geoff! I honestly don't think I've ever felt this way about a character before. There has been other fictional characters that I loved to hate, but Geoff is different, I just totally hate him. When he pops up on the screen, I want to physically reach through it and strangle him.

Geoff’s response to being confronted with the STI news was particularly repugnant. And really badly written.

What did he say?

He accused Yasmeen of giving him the STI and called her an old tart, R41

Thanks R42 I hope he is shunned by everyone and loses everything he's stolen from Yasmeen. How come she hasn't found his camera?

R29 Oh, a stabbing it is after all! .. First the wine bottle to the head, then a shard from the glass bottle into his neck! .. But apparently not up his ass, R36.

Pity he doesn't die. How's Gail?

R45 The only reason I wouldn't want him to die, is I don't want to see Yasmeen go to jail for murder.

I think the police will discover the hidden camera and the videos on Geoff's phone and laptop. It'll be diminished responsibility manslaughter.

R47 I agree, the camera has never been brought up yet. I don't think he will die though.

Britbox US has been asleep at the switch. Tonite is the second time in a row that the day's episode wasn't available to stream.

Oh gawd. I was PISSED when the Yasmeen/Geoff aftermath didn’t appear until yesterday.

When will they find the camera?!

If-when filming picks up, the virus will exist Weatherfield.

They'll have to show PC Craig Tinker's old OCD flaring up again with all that hand-washing!

Roy's Rollz will be strictly takeaway!

And that old slapper Leanne will be offering curb side pick up!

That's going to be confusing, R52, because the timeline is all over the place. I wonder how they'll handle it.

This is a companion article at Digital Spy discussing some potential changes.

Here's a thought. If there's going to be less intimacy such as kissing and touching, etc., then maybe they could replace it with more gratuitous shirtlessness and walking around in underwear. .. Also, the one about enlisting production staff to also serve as extras in background scenes instead of hiring outside actors is a novel one.

Better keep Ken secluded, given his age.

Are they going to kill anyone off from it?

1. SEAN 2. IZZY 3. CHESNEY 4.FIZ 5. DAVID

Billy and Paul just don't work as a couple, IMO.

R60 Billy doesn't work as a Vicar, either, but his poor congregation is stuck with him. In my mind he is the reason Emily never returned to Weatherfield. She loves church but doesn't want to be stuck going to his church.

Haha, R61, the only thing she’s snobbish about!

R60 No, they don't. Then, there's annoying Sean, and the average actor who plays the Bailey kid.

They may have gay inclusion, but I'm not interested in any of it.

I finally got the point of Nina. She’s been lovely in this week’s episodes.

Good god, the girl playing Asha grows more and more beautiful with every passing episode. And her acting is wonderful, too.

R64 She is alot better looking than the actor who plays Dev or the actress that played her mother.

Why did they replace the boy who played Adi?

The official reason was he wanted to focus on his GCSE exams but I think the real reason was he was fugly and couldn’t act for shit.

I need reminding-so Gail never found out the truth about Callum’s murder? I gather Gary will expose Sarah as an accomplice when Adam gets too close to finding out the truth about Gary and Kelly’s dad.

Wow.

Craig looks good!

News just in, filming on a adult episode has just finished, respecting all social-distancing rules. Here's Gail..

Dear god, I had to put that on ignore.

Oh, lordy, R70...did you really have to do that?

I'm sorry darlings, I didn't mean to destroy your eyes. FYI Gail is my third favourite character after Carla and Ken.

Please watch Gail from 1:00 in this video. Pissed at Christmas, boasting about how many times she's been married!

[quote] but I think the real reason was he was fugly and couldn’t act for shit.

Funny, that also describes the father, Dev.

R74 cool

The guy playing Dev has done shockingly bad work over the years but he was surprisingly moving last fall during Asha’s skin lightening storyline.

Dev and Steve are both played by atrocious actors.

I want to see more of Carla and Peter.

R78 Carla and Peter have a big storyline coming up in June. It's related to last year when she was having a breakdown.

I think they’re bringing on someone who Carla interacted with when she was undergoing treatment.

They are bringing in several people, and it's before she was in treatment and was missing. I hope she wasn't raped, it's meant to be a dark storyline.

"What Peter discovers is a hard thing to swallow but ultimately he will be all the more proud of her and love her all the more. But they have a rocky road ahead."

The soaps have apparently been given the green light to proceed with production but I think it will take at least a month for them to prepare. And I’m guessing there will be more than a few actors who will feel skittish about returning when the amount of new cases and deaths are nowhere near low enough yet.

OMG @ David crossing out "Mother" and writing "Gail" in the card 😂

Gail should have had him aborted when she had the chance.

Which couple do you think has the best sex life?

David’s scene with Gail really was good.

What happened in the scene?

Nothing, really. Just Gail moping that he wasn’t at her birthday “soiree.” And as she heads upstairs David says “Gail? Happy birthday.” Gail just smiles and goes upstairs.

R88 Agreed, "nothing" really happened but it was at the same time perfect. Gail, David, and Audrey have the easiest and most natural family chemistry of any "relatives" on the show. I can really imagine them as a real family.

R89, I also like Sarah as part of that unit. The actress looks particularly great nowadays, too.

At least they have written that Craig's taken up jogging. When he nexts appears of screen as a slim, flame-haired temptress it won't be completely inexplicable.

Can we agree on a list of the top 5 characters we want to be given the chop?

- Fiz

- Sean

-Izzy

- Chesney

- Gary

Not Chesney or Gary, I like their looks. I wouldn’t mind being in a ginger sandwich with them.

Uggh, Gary gets more fugly by the day. I don’t mind Chesney, he’s sweet.

I hope that CUNT Geoff gets boiled alive in a grease fryer at the Kebab shop

They both look doughy to me.

I want Adam Barlow in me, quite deeply.

I want Adam and Imran to spitroast me. I bet they both have gorgeous, thick cocks

Imran has such kissable lips. And a gorgeous speaking voice. He got a buzzcut during the lockdown.

OK. Now I want Imran and Adam spit roasting me, quite deeply.

R99 NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I loved his hair! I hate, hate, hate shaved heads.

Who else suspects that this storyline will result in the discovery that Oliver's father is really Nick, and not Steve?

Wasn’t Nick not living in Weatherfield when Oliver was conceived?

I think he was still in town, at the time, but he and Leanne were broken up.

Who has the nicest house on the street?

Sally

Sally's house is okay but nothing great. I like Gail's and Yasmeen's is the cleanest. Chesney's and Fiz's houses look like something Steptoe & Son

R106 All of them are more modern than the others, but Gail's is always so cluttered and after Yasmeen's recent marriage, her house needs to be burned to the ground. The best house is Audrey's, but we rarely get to see it anymore, and it is on Grasmere Drive, not the Street.

After Richard set fire to Audrey's House it completely changed layout and size. The original was quite modest.

Am I the only one? I would really like Ken and Audrey to get together. Unlike, with Claudia and the retirement home, I could see him moving into Grasmere Drive and being happy.

Imagine him having to service Audrey's weathered titz and furburger to earn his keep.

I’ve got a bad feeling now that Craig will somehow get pulled into David’s antagonism of the gang and will end up dead. I think the actor playing Craig had quit and then proceeded to lose all that weight.

R110 She's no older looking than him.

What the hell would a grown woman like Shona see in a skinny little child like David?

Why doesn't big Eileen knock through her pokey living room and front reception gallery like most of the houses. She must have the most dreary little house on the street.

I think it’s time that the actor who played Todd comes back. What he did didn’t seem to me to be worthy of an eternal ban.

Didn't he slip a finger up a girl's minge?

R116 he grabbed her crotch but no penetration. And touched another woman’s boobs and bum. Both in a nightclub. The sort of thing women used to just slap you for, not ruin your career.

Exactly, R117. They overreacted to his obviously offensive, drunken, loutish behavior. Cancel culture at its worst. He should be able to return to the show.

He assaulted 4 women. Said he felt compelled to prove he wasn't like his gay character

That wasn’t proven, R119. You can’t just throw that in here without proof.

It was reported in the news.

Regardless of what anyone thinks of his behavior, I doubt ITV legal would allow Corrie to rehire him while he's still on the Sex Offender Register.

November 2017 news reports said he would be on the register for five years, so that wouldn't end until late 2022.

Apparently the lady who played his mum on the show complained to the bosses that she and the other girls wouldn't feel safe around Bruno if he were allowed to return. Allegedly she got others like Barbara Knox and Helen Worth to demand a safety ban.

R123 I doubt any of them had to worry.

R117, they didn't ruin his career. He ruined his own career. I liked Todd, for the record. But it was 100% Bruno Langley's own fault that he was sacked.

From the report it sounded like the women didn't come forward til they met in the toilets and both had been attacked. Todd was cute but he was stick with Ventriloquist's dummy, AKA the worst Vicar in Manchester

Edison's speech was just too heavy-handed. Yes, it's important to call out racism, but it was awkwardly written. The fact that the actor is quite wooden didn't help matters.

Allegedly there were warning signs that Bruno Langley was going off the rails, for a couple of weeks before the incident.

From what I've heard from those in the know he would often be noticed staring at the actress who plays "Mary", making obscene gestures with his fingers and tongue. According to a set assistant, he also kept he approaching the "Audrey" actress with requests like "Can you fit me in for a cheeky blow at the salon?" Confused, she said no. "Why, are you a bit too tight in there?"

The real warning alarm should have gone off when a cleaner found Helen Worth's topless pics in his dressing room, covered in sticky gunk.!

He was sex mad!

I wonder what will finally give Geoff away regarding keeping Jasmeen from going to prison.

His surveillance of her, I would assume.

Almost forgot about the web cameras, R131. Thanks.

I wonder if Wayne, the locker room bully, is a closet case.

I hope someone sets a grease fire with Geoff.

I don't mind Leanne when she's paired up with interesting characters, neither of whom are Steve or Nick. And I don't care about the Oliver storyline.

Looking forward to Carla's upcoming storyline.

It would be really easy to explain that at the factory Fiz, Sean, Izzy caught and spread then died from coronavirus. Fiz passed it to Tyrone and Chesney. Tyrone survived but Chesney succumbs.

Sean kills off big whale Eileen and Izzy ends ginger whinger Gary.

God, R136 , why not just recast the whole show? Sheesh.

Because R137 I like or at least don't mind the other cast. Those named in my post are the ones who either lack talent or charisma.

R137, on various message boards there are many in the cast who have been declared as deadwood or just plain awful.

They missed a big opportunity with the Underworld roof collapse, as well as with Derek, the drunk shooter, who could have blown a few people away with bullets just flying in every direction will-nilly.

I agree, R140.

What's Geoff doing now? The last episode we saw here in Canada was Alya changing the locks.

He's admitted to Tim & Sally that he hired prostitutes, R142, but says Yasmeen drove him to it by withholding affection. He says "the most physical contact we've had in months was when she hit me with that bottle".

Thanks R143. I read that this is suppose to go on until the end of the year. The writers better be coming up with a really good comeuppance to make us put up with this shit for that long.

Wow, Kirk was even more annoying than usual in last week’s episodes. One scene with Paul made zero sense and seemed like a hastily written space filler because there was a timing issue with the rest of the episode.

Can't stand that bitch Izzy sticking her nose in and siding with Geoff. Someone chuck her in the canal.

What did Carla do?

I'd guess prostitution, R147

R148 I really hope she wasn't pimped out as a prostitute when she was unwell, that's so fucking dark. It would also be a bit much for the character, given that she was already raped by her smarmy fiance in the past.

Izzie was so fucking embarrassing in last night’s episode. Cherylee Houston just gets worse and worse. I wish Gary would push her down the stairs.

R150 totally agree. She's usually less than competent but last night she was abysmal. Plus the character is a gossipy, nosy drudge who forgets her own wrongdoings.

The character serves no purpose and that actress likely earns more than 4 nurses, just because she's perched in that motorised wheelchair. Sorry if that's nasty but she stinks up the screen!

[quote] Plus the character is a gossipy, nosy drudge who forgets her own wrongdoings.

That is a staple character of the genre. Though, I must admit this actress is horrible. Remember her big medical marijuana storyline? The acting in Reefer Madness was better.

R152 I didn't actually see it but a fellow Dlounger introduced me. I can't believe she wasn't nominated for a TV BAFTA..

R153 Surprisingly, that is one of her better moments from that storyline.

I just read the actress is 46!

Who will be killed off when we return?

I bet Sally is going to play sleuth to reveal Geoff's dark side.

I loved Sally’s Mama Rose period and am looking forward to her Jessica Fletcher period.

That guy Carla had to sleep with, while not particularly cute, certainly isn't the greasy troll he could have been. And for people living in a squat they both look fairly clean.

I can't stand the smirking, vicious girl though. Glad they both get the shit kicked out of them

That squat guy’s teeth were way too nice. The same was true of the squat girl. Her teeth are fucking perfect.

R160 Every time I see people on the news living in a squat, they tend to be middle class kids.

I missed The Road to Coronation Street when it first aired in 2010, but I watched it last night and it was brilliant. The funny thing is that even though all of these characters (except Ken) had left the show before I was even born, I still know who they are because they were so iconic to my parents' and grandparents' generations.

I think Jessie Wallace is a vulgar pig and I loathe her on EastEnders but have to admit she was pretty fucking good as Pat Phoenix.

The Road to Coronation Street isn't on Britbox. I'd seen it in the past on CBC, though. Not bad.

Who else is suck of this sick baby storyline?

And are those 2 blackmailer gone now?

The Oliver storyline is so depressing.

Is he going to die?

R167, they made clear in last night’s episode that his condition is “extremely life limiting.”

R165 What makes the storyline so bad to me, is that the parent's partners are better than the parents. Steve should never have an overly dramatic story because he is best as comic relief. Leann can do drama, but in this storyline she has missed the mark. Nick has stepped up. Lately, he has been dull, but he has hit the right marks during this story. Tracy is always great, but during this story she has managed to temper her usual selfish bitchiness with genuine concern and even love, much like how she shined during the Daniel and Sinead story. They haven't suddenly made her into a copy of Deirdre but you can finally see Deirdre's influence showing up in our Tracy.

I want more Peter and Carla.

R169, they were also very smart in cultivating Tracy’s friendship/working relationship with Mary, someone who Tracy wouldn’t have been caught dead associating with in previous years.

Geoff was deliciously creepy talking to Yasmeen on Alya's cell phone in today's episode.

R172 yes he was, with his indecent proposal! It really helps that we aren't drowned in 6 episodes and we have to wait a couple of days for the follow-up to these "mini-cliffhangers", rather than just30 minutes, like before.

Carla takes over the factory again next week, I can't wait to see her back in charge after all this time. She excels as the fiesty but caring boss.

Watching the Shona storyline, I have to wonder: does she even have friends her own age (or rather, did she have any even before the amnesia)? We saw her speaking to Gemma a few weeks ago, but they were never really friends - they just came from the same estate. Outside of the Platts, the closest thing to a friend Shona has is Roy, who's about twice her age. And no one seems to find it odd that Roy has all these much younger women move in with him (Carla, Nina, Shona).

Carla was a long term friend through Hatley and they have an odd-couple relationship. No a is his long lost niece. Shoba was his employee who he is protective of.

I guess the show has a limited pool of similar aged people who it would make sense she'd be friends with. Maybe Toyah or the mechanic woman?

What's really weird is a mature woman like her (with a 20-something son) would ever be interested in weedy, immature, unbalanced hairdresser David.

Lol sorry, *Hayley *Nina *Shona.!

Shona and Kylie would have been friends.

Apparently Todd Grimshaw is being recast. I don't see the point of recasts unless the previous actor/actress was very young and didn't appear much. I'm not very good at suspending disbelief when a character has a new head. I still don't think of Adam Rickett's Nick and Ben Price's as the same character all these years later. (I never saw the original Tracy.)

If they really can’t ethically bring themselves to bring Bruno back then they should recast, I think. Todd is too important a character.

Todd is far from being an important character

I think he was. He was Eileen’s son, Jason’s brother, Sarah’s ex, Billy’s ex and Tracy’s best friend. He had a lot of connections in Weatherfield. Definitely an important character deemed worthy of a recast.

I want Jason Grimshaw in me, quite deeply.

Join the queue, cock.

I'll have me another milk stout, luv.

What's the deal with Scott Emberton? Johnny apparently recognized him. It was suggested that he beat up the man and woman from the squat where Carla spent time during her mental breakdown.

Where do you think think that's all going?

R183 I hate that they now have Sean saying cock, all the time, like he is Bet. He is NOT worthy to wash Bet's knickers, if she bothered to wear any.

R185, I think he’s really Carla’s biological father. And I think in the past Johnny cheated him out of something.

Geoff is a piece of shit. I can't wait to see Paula Wilcox as his ex-wife and Tim's mother, though.

Thanks, R187 .

Tonight's episode was the first to be entirely filmed in accordance with social distancing. Quite a strong week of episodes.

It really is firing on all cylinders. It’s helped enormously by having Izzy, Sean, Fizz and Gemma on at a bare minimum.

Do you think Elaine Jones will be a long-term character? I hope that Tim will eventually want to get to know her. We only have one mother, after all. Or do we?

I think Paula Wilcox is wonderful as Elaine/Philippa but don’t see her being on long term.

R193 Depends, when they first brought on Maureen Lipman as Evelyn, I didn't see her becoming a long term character. But, she has fit in perfectly and is now one of my favorite characters.

Behind the scenes at Coronation Street as they go back to filming while social distancing

What would Gail be doing now? What about Audrey? Ken? Claudia? Dirty things going on for seniors isolating together?

Helen Worth is 69, is she sick or just being extra cautious? Why would they be keeping her off-screen, Paula Wilcox is 70, Ian Bartholomew is 66, though honestly he looks older than Ken.

Corrie is going back to six episodes a week in September.

So, do you think Geoff killed Elaine/ Philippa?

No, but he really frightened her. She'll be back.

The Oliver storyline is leaving me cold. It feels as though the writers and actors are just going through the motions.

Everyone wants a dead baby ever since Michelle got that award for hers.

I thought it was funny that Tim compared Sally to Jessica Fletcher. A poster upthread used the same reference weeks ago.

Maybe I am getting too horny, from the lockdown, but Chesney in his underwear was looking yummy!

I've watched our Chesney since he was a tyke -- sorry r204, but....no.

NuTodd Gareth Pierce.

R205 I'm in America, so I only started watching after he was grown. I don't have that issue.

NuTodd looks fine.

How's Carla doing at the factory?

She’s not been seen there much yet. I think Covid totally derailed her storyline because Jenny mentioned that Scott wasn’t staying at the Rovers Return anymore and had “gone home.”

R210 yes it really must have, such a shame

I loved it when Adam finally said “murder” on Wednesday’s episode. I want Sam Robertson to star as Young Taggart after he sits on my face.

Gary and Maria barely went near each other at their own wedding! I don't know why the writers didn't just push the wedding back until social distancing restrictions have eased (although in fairness, that could be further away than we think).

I wonder how they’ll shoot Tim and Sally’s wedding.

R214 I doubt they'll have one anytime soon.

R215, it’s happening late next month, I know someone on the show. And the big 60th anniversary episodes begin filming in early October. The three episodes a week thing (which I far prefer) will continue until October.

Where is Elaine? They could at least show her wherever she is. I bet that scumbag Geoff beat her up.

Where is this storyline going with Gemma and that bitch Vanessa?

R218 Maybe they'll have a lesbian affair.

I can't really remember but wasn't Imogen the big bitch in that storyline. Vanessa always reminded me of the girls that hung out with the mean girls, and went along to be popular, but they weren't actually mean girls themselves.

Debbie Webster has potential. Will she try to break up Kevin and Abi ?

Debbie has Kevin's interests -- or what she thinks they are -- at heart. She doesn't want to see him hurt. So, expect her and Abby to clash, especially if by starts on the dope again. Or, if she gets involved with Peter.

I think Debbie could end up with Johnny if Jenny dumps him.

Did you see how Vicar Billy was packed into those pants tonight??

Finally, Scott’s storyline begins. I still have no clue what it’s about.

R224 want me to tell you?

R223 Gross, what sort of Vicar is he?

[quote] Gross, what sort of Vicar is he?

R225 Not much of one.

He's a fucking awful Vicar, who would listen to that moralising, nosy, phony scruff?

Who gives a shit if he packs, he looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy.

Where would you put your hand, r228?

Ewww R229 his face ruins everything.

Anybody else not give one shit about David and Shiba? And her exit by gunfire while hiding in a box inside a Christmas fair was one of the most ridiculous in Corrie's history.

*Shona

I miss Rita and Roy.

R231, I used to like David and Shona, but the shooting/amnesia storyline is daft even by Corrie standards. I understand the actress went on maternity leave, but they could have come up with a better explanation.

Monday’s episode was extremely underwhelming.

What happened?

Nothing. That was the problem.

How many scenes of Alya and Geoff bitching at each other must we endure. It’s become way too monotonous.

Is Geoff going to beat the shit out of Sally?

Coronation Street and Emmerdale return to full schedules on 14 September.

I much prefer them being on 3/4 times. Less is more!

Wouldn't have minded if they'd dropped to five episodes per week for each show and just ran one episode M-F. Maybe have a special hour-long episode when something big happens.

I bet Geoff will have sex with Nikki-ewwww.

I don't want to imagine Geoff having sex with anyone.

R243 I don't know, I like to think of him going to jail and getting an abusive cellmate that will terrorize him, including with sex, the way he has terrorized his wives.

How's Carla getting on at the factory?

Is the new Todd hot enough for his new storyline to be him working as a rentboy to get by?

R245 They haven't been showing the factory too much. I think the lockdown changed their plans, for her storyline.

At least they mentioned the factory is making masks as well as knickers.

Finally, Tim has seen the real Geoff! This just paves the way for Tim and Sally to track down Elaine.

I was so relieved, R249! Hadn't read ahead and wasn't expecting Tim to accept the truth so quickly.

Same here, R250. To be fair, the video was the catalyst that allowed Tim to put the pieces together after so many warnings from Sally . Also, it was not too long ago that Tim showed doubt about Tess being his mother. Today's reveal was a big breakthrough for the storyline.

The climax to the Geoff/Yasmeen storyline will be part of the 60th anniversary celebration in early December.

Please don't say Geoff and Climax in the same sentence. Poor Yasmeen, everything else and she had to sleep with that foul fucker as well. At least his escorts were paid for it!

At first I thought they were going to find footage from the attack night, where Geoff threatens to kill Yasmeen with a knife. I guess the Police will find that.

I’m confused. Why did Ray Crosby cause the sinkhole in the back garden of the Platt house? What does he have against them?

It's extremely vague, I don't watch all episodes but it seems he wants something from David. Hopefully not his little 4-incher

Ray apparently has a massive vendetta against several Weatherfield households. This storyline is intriguing but already looks to be a convoluted mess.

I bet Shona is going to discover Ray’s plot, but people will think she’s crazy.

Quite glad to see Natasha back. I remember thinking that she had potential but kept being sidelined by lesser characters the first time round.

I remember Carla being cruel to Batasha back when Nicky was a partner at Underworld.

I think Ray will rape Shona.

R260 I think it will be Gail!

Gail will rape Shona?

The Oliver storyline is such a blatant rip-off of the Charlie Gard case from a few years ago.

Will they kill him off?

They have to, don’t they? So that Leanne goes nuts when Toyah fosters a kid and Nick establishes a relationship with his long lost son.

Not another depressed Steve storyline. He's a woeful actor who actually gets worse as the years go on.

Why have they suddenly started looking for Todd after 3 years?

So apparently Ray isn't targeting the Platts as much as he wants to buy their house. He also wants to buy the garage anf other places.

Wasn't this a storyline on Eastenders?

R268, yes, Gavin (Kathy’s ex/Sharon’s dad) attempted to buy up Walford but the storyline was abruptly halted.

I thought it was James Wilmott Brown, Kathy's rapist, helped by ginger weasel Max

When's Gail going to get another cock up her cooch? It's been years.

I hope Eileen and Sean get killed.

R266, I was just thinking that Steve's behaving more like his car's been scratched than his child is dying.

Call me harsh but I couldn't care less about Oliver.

Where are the Baileys?

R275 The Baileys are very bland and I couldn't give a shit about the brother and his girl getting back together.

And I hate what they've done with no. 3

The Baileys haven't been seen since the end of July when Michael helped his dad, Ed, celebrate a virtual wedding anniversary with Aggie who was staying at a hotel somewhere.

Wasn't the son and his girlfriend in it recently, when Carla told him off on the factory?

Yes, R278.

Why did Carla tell off Michael? I missed that.

She criticised his terrible acting, r280.

He was also recently in a brief scene in the Rovers, I think.

The mum is okay in the cafe but neither son is hot and the dad is a bit annoying.

Emily Bishop would keel over if she saw wgst they did to her house.

What Peter said to Carla was unforgivable, he needs a good kick in his arse.

Has Big Eileen succumbed to COVID? She's at risk because of her age and her weight!

I must have missed something. Did they explain where Eileen actually is?

She got her fat arse wedged in her bedroom door after binge eating during lockdown.

Eugh she'll be back in screen when this new Todd arrives, with her terrible acting.

Is that bitch in the wheelchair shielding?

R287, she’s in Thailand with son Jason. Note the cheap looking bit of Oriental tat hanging on the wall behind her.

Thank you, R291. I wonder if the actress has an underlying condition.

Yes, she's got "gland problems".

The Grace storyline is just weird. There haven't been any signs of her being unstable until this point.

What did Grace do?

Adam's hair is wild, he probably has a big bush

R295, Grace pretended that Tiana was her and Michael's baby when really she was just the child she was babysitting

That kid playing Nick’s son was pretty impressive. He must have a photographic memory. How else did he do his very first scene with a shitload of dialogue including astronomy terminology?

They should have made Nick's newfound kid a girl and a young Gail-lookalike!

Honestly, I must admit that I didn't see the Grace thing coming. I knew she was a bit of a strange bitch. But, I didn't suspect she was passing off a kid that wasn't even hers.

Where's Gail hiding?

She was back last night, but she was unsuccessful in finding a new chin.

R301 Eileen any success in losing any of your considerable girth during lockdown? Big Bones!

She was wearing an awful lot of make up for somebody just off a flight from fucking Thailand.

Sally looks brilliant for her age, but she's seriously pushing it by wearing white. At my count, this is her fifth wedding: two marriages to Kevin, a jilting at the altar by Danny in the early 2000s, and a previous void marriage to Tim.

Before her last wedding I laughed when she told Gail where she got her wedding dress and Gail happily enthused "Oh that's where I got some of mine from!" Cue dirty Sally look.

Amazing Gail has had one fewer wedding than Elizabeth Taylor! . 4 of them dead.

Todd #2? Nope. Nothing special AT ALL.

Well Eileen is his mum.

Not keen on new Todd so far. I'm generally against recasts, though.

Idle wondering: in real life, how many people actually get married in bistros? So many people get married there on Corrie.

Too bad they don't still have the mission on the street. It would've made a hell of a lot more sense. What happened to Yasmine's community center, after the factory moved out? It would make sense for weddings.

All the scenes with that fugly thug Mick were eminently fast-forwardable Wednesday night and then tonight.

It's been rubbish recently. The actor who plays the new Todd is awful.

Also, now that Billy & Paul are having more scenes together, it's becoming more and more obvious that they just don't work. There's no chemistry there.

Funny how they have five gay male characters on this show, yet nothing related to them makes me want to watch.

Poor Gail almost flattened into the cobbles! Missed her.

I really like Evelyn and her attitude. Glad the actress who plays her received a Damehood.

I'm sorry they brought this new Todd in, I simply couldn't care less about him. And of course his intellect has been watered down - he was something of a prodigy as a teen.

My second reason for disliking his return is we have to see back-end-of-a-bus Eileen more often. Awful.

And who the fuck was ever consider Billy as an Archdeacon? He's an atrocious Vicar and hard on the ears/eyes.

I think Helen Worth had a chemical peel or something during the lockdown. She's looking much less wrinkled, but nowhere near an actual lift.

Gail has always been a natural beauty. That Eileen on the other hand. Every time she wears make-up she looks like a clown.

R315 Agree about Eileen, she looks just like a deceased aunt of mine, and she was the same.

Will desperate Dev sell his shop to that scouser?

I’m not looking forward to Evelyn falling for that fella and now it seems obvious he’s got some terminal disease.

If he does die maybe he can leave her enough money to move out of that shithole house of Fiz. Ugly and cheap

R319 I wasn't watching then, and I know Jack and Vera weren't fancy people, but from the clips/episodes I've seen the house looked much better when they lived there.

Is that the house that had Hilda and Stan’s murial?

R321 No, that's Kevin's house.

The Duckworths extended the back room and put in a better kitchen. The current owners have no taste or style and it looks horrible. I think it's purple with horrible furniture.

Apparently Rita used to live there with Len

Did Todd have sex with Mick? Ewww.

Todd was an escort, but not with that face.

I want the Oliver storyline to be over.

I stopped watching months ago, but still read the weekly previews. Can't believe the Geoff story is still going on.

R327, it’s one of thr better storylines and has had a lot to do with why the show has been so watchable up until the past few weeks.

Bring back Rita and Ken!

What are the odds that Billy, devout vicar that he is, is now about to start banging Todd behind Paul's back?

Billy is to Vicars what Trump is to Politicians

When Gail was hassling her, Natasha should have brought up the time Gail broke the law by accessing her medical records and telling Nick she'd had an abortion. She should have been prosecuted for that.

R332 I believe it was Tracy's files Gail accessed to help Becky prove Tracy miscarried before she and Becky got into a fight and Tracy fell down the stairs. T claimed she lost her twins as a result of the fall, ending Becky's marriage to Steve.

Gail helped her as Tracy had lied in court, claiming her cellmate Gail (!) had confessed to murdering her husband Joe (!)

Gail did get fired from the Medical Centre for this.

If I'm wrong and Gail breached confidentiality with Natasha also, please forgive me. I thought Nick badgered Natasha into an abortion as he didn't love her/want a baby.

R333, you're probably right. I was only watching Corrie on and off back then, so I'm probably remembering wrong.

It's not only Todd who's grown a new head - his ex-foster daughter has as well:

I don't understand these young actors and actresses who leave these types of shows thinking the world is their oyster. It's an easy paycheque, no heavy lifting and regular work.

Precisely R336 what an idiot. If you don't what to be an actress fair enough but don't go thinking you'll be a star.

As much as I can't stand Sean, Eileen, Izzy, Chesney or Fiz, at least those actors realise they have it made and that they're not talented enough to make a living elsewhere!

R337, they’re also too fugly to make it elsewhere in the business of show.

Who else saw that news from Grace coming? I knew it was going to happen when she left, but the question is, who is the father?

And I never thought Debbie would get involved with Ray. Poor Kevin and Abby -- and the street!

I hope Abby stabs Debbie/Roxy to death.

Are they only trying to buy up the nice side of the street?

He won't get his hands on my salon!

That was the first Oliver-centric episode that I actually found engaging. It was interesting to see how the various members of Oliver's family reacted to the ruling.

I think they've made Tracy too nice nowadays. As if she would tell Leanne that she wanted to give her a hug!

So the judge rules that Oliver should have artificial means of sustaining life withdrawn. I have to say I am HATING Leanne, but loving Jane Danson's acting. Even Steve MacDonald has seen reason. So when will this happen? Or are they going to drag it out even more. [italic](Easter, 2021, Oliver gets easter candy through his feeding tube...)[/italic]

Coming up, Peter falls off the wagon (again) and it may be over between him and Carla -- and they'll likely get back together. More shitstirring from Todd, and Mary loses another man.

Jenny’s stepdaughter will probably bang Adam. After he bangs Alina.

I'd bang Adam.

R343 I actually like the way they are writing Tracy nowadays. They are making her into Deidre Jr. She is still capable of being hell on wheels but when push comes to shove, she is there for her family.

JUST KILL THE KID ALREADY!

I’m wondering if Adam will be banging Carla. They’ve shared several scenes recently. That would be hot.

The intro with Geoff singing Supertramp was one of the most surreal moments I've ever seen on Corrie. For a split second there, I really did think they were going to open the episode with a mock music video.

Cute speech in the House of Commons given by MP Tracie Brabin, a former actress on Corrie.

I've never wanted to punch someone on a show as much as Geoff, sitting there smirking in court.

We learn Yasmin's fate on Monday, 7/12/20

I think the CCTV footage of Geoff in Weatherfield General will turn up, prompting a conviction. I’d love it that this turned out to be what caused Geoff’s comeuppance. Talk about a stupid move.

Part of a very interesting interview with William Roache:

I’m very fortunate that Ken wasn’t some horrible vicious serial killer or someone you wouldn’t be too happy to play. He has been a guy who is trying to keep peace with his dysfunctional family. That I love and like. So I am very much in tune with what he is and what he does even though we are different types of people.

Can you tell us a little about Ken’s storyline in the 60th anniversary episodes?

I’m involved in a really interesting story that is very much Ken. In trying to save a part of Coronation Street which I really enjoy and like. And then I’m going to have big problems with my dysfunctional family. Peter is going to fall off the wagon again. It’s all really good stuff. Powerful and always well written, of course. It’s a strong storyline which I have really enjoyed filming.

Ken has always protested for what is right. He took part in the CND marches and anti-Vietnam War protests in the sixties. He always takes a stand for peace, love and a caring community. I am very much in tune with that. The one thing I want more than anything is world peace. Imagine if we had world peace? If countries didn’t have to spend money on armaments, that would solve pretty much every other problem we have. And that is a thing that is possible. If a lot of people seriously thought about world peace and being peaceful themselves, it can happen. And that’s how it will happen. Not through governments. Through people.

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I predicted ages ago that David & Shona would have a second "wedding ceremony" either at Christmas or on the 60th anniversary! This programme has become so predictable.

I hope the chickens shit all over Geoff before the ambulance gets there.

Damn, I wanted Anna to suddenly show up and stab him. Maybe she’ll get to stab Ray, at least.

R357 LOL, I loved that scene.

Fire the writers and hire new ones. The current storylines are utter, irredeemable shite.

Have Todd die a painful, horrible, permanent death. And have him take Paul and Billy with him.

The praise for NuTodd on UK message boards baffles me. He’s nowhere near as appealing as the original Todd and not good looking at all.

The writers killed Simon's mum off-screen so he could go to live with Peter... they killed Joseph's mum off-screen so he could go to live with Chesney... what are the odds that before Natasha's three months in London are up, Nick will get a phone to say she's been in a nasty accident?

I like the actress who plays Natasha. That would suck.

Isn't this Leanne home alone at Christmas, while telling everyone she left town, a retread of Rita's story from last year.

Well, except a tree doesn't fall on Leanne, r363. I'm kinda sick of Leanne's pitty party. Frankly, I'm pretty sick of the ridiculous storylines we're seeing lately.

It's been rubbish recently. I can't think of a single storyline I'm invested in.

Last night’s protest stuff with Abi was insufferable.

R365 I do want to see how they manage to save the street and WHY Ray wants so badly to destroy it.

Max lost a lot of weight, but poor Lily found it.

I hope Max’ manboobs are gone. That was very alarming to see on a pre-teen.

Is Peter gonna croak?

i don't think so. No gossip about it. Maybe a tram will hit him.

What is it with me and Trams?

Tim’s tats were awful but he’s not in bad shape. Maybe the bitch who plays Abby forced him to go to the gym before that shirtless scene was shot.

I wouldn't mind Tim in me, quite deeply.

I can't believe Steve McDonald used to be cute.

He was cute in a baby vampire sort of way. He would have made a great Eddie Munster.

Thank God they're finally killing off Chesney.

They are not killing off Chesney. They should kill off Sean. The actor is the most hated member of the cast.

Yes, Anthony Cotton is very much loathed. Charlie Condou, who played Sean bf Marcus, recently posted a thinly veiled confirmation of that.

Yup.

What the fuck is Debbie up to? I hope she gets caught when Ray tries to escape. And someone please punch Peter in his fart box.

I love the actress who plays Debbie so I hope she stays as long as possible.

Gail's gay dad dies off-screen this week. What's the betting he left her enough to buy back number 8 and get those tits sorted?!

She'd be better off buying a chin.

I wish we'd see more of Adam, like, without a shirt.

R384 By this point it would a disaster for her to get a chin implant, it would totally change her familiar face like Streisand getting her nose fixed.

Sad news about Maureen Lipman's (Evelyn) partner,

I don't usually cast dispersions on young actor's looks, but the guy playing Corey is ugly as fuck.

He really is fugly. And I have a terrible feeling he’s going to rape Nina as retaliation for her being in a romance with Asha.

The Todd/Billy/Paul love triangle is so stupid. The old Todd had a dark side, but he was never THIS cruel. And honestly, all this just to get back together with Billy? They were only together for about eighteen months in the first place. Just find another boyfriend, FFS.

I totally agree, R389. I fast forward through scenes of anything with any of them in it.

Why do the Barlows always lose their mothers during childhood? Peter, Adam, Simon, Bertie...

R391 They're the Cartwrights of Weatherfield.

Last night’s stuff with Peter was hard to watch. Are they actually killing him off?

Why did they have to bring Dylan back? That means more scenes with Sean. No one wants that.

I very much doubt they'll kill Peter off, R393. It would have more impact if they did, though.

That Dylan kid is a total nothing. I don’t get why they brought him back. Simon’s new pal has promise, though.

I have to say for older women, Audrey and Gail have some of the best hair in the world. It is so thick and luxurious.

Aren't they wigs?

I haven’t watched it for years. I remember the great characters from the 70s, but they wouldn’t get a look in now. I recommend Buggernation Street on YouTube. Whole episodes from the 70s have been dubbed to create a storyline where the entire street is populated by perverts. It’s hysterically funny.

R398 Honestly, I used to think they were. But, looking at them closely and at pics of the actresses off screen, I don't think they are. There are none of the tell tale signs of wigs. Now, Rita I'm sure wears wigs.

So it was never explained why Simon is clearly mixed race but both of his parents are white?

R401 I think that is something we are just supposed to not notice or something.

I like Daisy-she’s pretty and has got good comic timing-but she doesn’t seem like a good fit for the pub. I can see her with Nick running the bistro.

I know Gary has done some bad stuff, but his looking out for Johnny in prison is redeeming him a lot.

Why does Johnny look better in prison than in Weatherfield? Did he get his teeth fixed? A better haircut? The facial hair?I always thought he was a hot daddy but not so much the past few years.

He looked like he was wearing eyeliner, r405. Not so much in prison.

And just how stupid IS Tyrone??

Tyrone/Alina scenes are my new fast forwardable scenes, along with the Baileys, Paul/NuTodd/Billy and anything with Sean.

How does Kevin attract all these younger women? He's not exactly Casanova, but Abi's nearly twenty years younger than him, as was Molly Dobbs. His second wife, Alison, looked quite a bit younger than him as well.

Apparently an actor was about to be axed from Corrie years ago, got down on his knees and begged the producer for a reprieve, and is still on the show now.

I think it is Michael Le Vell/Ke in Webster. He's had trouble with drinking, drink driving, and was on trial for rape (acquitted!).

Or it could be Jimmi Harkishin/Dev Alahan was nearly axed in 2012 for cocaine.

Sounds like something Antony Cotton would do.

Eileen Derbyshire(Emily Bishop)'s husband has died from Alzheimer's. I guessing his health was the "personal reasons" that was mentioned when she stopped appearing in 2015.

Enough of the Carla/Peter shit. It’s becoming intolerable. Either send them away with a “happy ending” or kill Peter off.

I doubt they will ever kill Peter. Also, he is a better actor than a lot of other people on the show. But, I am getting tired of the alcohol relapses every few years.

Will Simon start doing chav porn to make ends meet?

Shit episodes tonite -- and lately.

Yeah, they’re not so good nowadays. I want Jason Grimshaw to return and it turns out he’s made a fortune off his OnlyFans page.

I really don’t give a crap about Yasmeen’s financial status. Just sell the fucking community centre, bitch.

One thing that constantly surprises me is the British attitude to debt. Sending the bailiffs seems so medieval.

Is there no way to get out of debt in the UK, other than paying?

In the US, Yasmeen would just file bankruptcy and either have the debts wiped out or pay monthly to a court administered plan. Which seems so much more civilized.

Mike Baldwin (a/k/a Johnny Briggs) dead at 85.

I have never watched Coronation Street and I haven’t read all these threads. Today I watched Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home, where she visits the street and talks about when she was briefly on the show in 1973. She meets up with William Roache, who played her love interest, and they talked about how he’s been on the show for 60 years! I thought he looked quite great for a 88 year old man and decided to Google him...and found out he’d been accused of being a sex pest! Did anything ever come of that? He is still on the show often?

R422, he was found not guilty on two counts of rape and four indecent assaults.

Shortly before he was charged, he had made some bizarre comments to the press about how victims of child sexual abuse are being punished for things they did wrong in their past lives.

One good thing about that time was that his son Linus, who he’d been estranged from, moved to Ireland to do Vikings and to be closer to him during his ordeal. They apparently became close again.

Oh I just but it together that his son is Linus Roache from gay classic, PRIEST. Duh, me.

Linus also played Ken’s long lost son on Coronation Street around 10 years ago. It was just for a few weeks, though.

And Linus was also ADA Mike Cutter on Law and Order.

Johnny Briggs's death reminded me: Leanne was really quite heartless back in the mid-2000s. She helped Danny manipulate Mike when he had Alzheimer's so he would leave the factory to him. Then she started dating Peter and became nice but dull.

The guy playing the drug dealer is very good.

Are they going there with Yasmeen and Elaine? I think so. It would nicely mirror the burgeoning relationship of Nina and Asha.

R430 I sort of got those vibes but I hope not. I'm tired of "out of the blue" same sex romantic relationships, they almost NEVER happen in real life.

I'm ready to give the show a rest. Steve's horrid actions towards Peter. Leanne acting like a doormat. Clueless Nick. Sean needs to leave the show permanently. And have him take Todd with him. The writing is shite.

It's awful at the moment, R432. The producers said there were some hasty rewrites after lockdown restrictions were tightened at New Year, so that must be what we're seeing right now. There are scenes that just go round and round with the same dialogue being repeated. It's such obvious filler.

Steve was genuinely unbearable with Peter on Monday night. It bordered on abuse.

Good news: Tracie Bennett is returning as Sharon Gaskell after many years. I think she was Rita’s stepdaughter like Jenny but from a different husband. Bennett played Carlotta in Follies in London as well as Judy Garland both in London and on Broadway.

I remember Sharon. She found out her fiance was cheating on her with Natalie, and then had a falling-out with Sally over the extremely boring Danny. I wonder they've brought her back after all these years.

They are really committed to writing Peter and Carla, as the Taylor and Burton of Weatherfield.

Hah, R436, that’s exactly what I was thinking last night! Weird, huh?

Grace and Michael were BOTH victims of racial profiling within the space of a few weeks?

The uncle is just as poor an actor as the other Baileys. Where do the casting directors find them?

This LeAnn/Simon drugs story really makes me think of a difference between US and UK tv shows. Leann's a former hooker, but somehow drug dealing is below her.

The UK seems stuck in the "Just Say No" era. While the US takes a stronger view against sex work.

R438 Is it racial profiling? I'm white and my whole life my mother has warned me never to go back in a store with bags unless I have my receipt out, for that exact reason.

Even though I couldn't generally give a damn about Tyrone and Fiz, the scene where they argued over Alina last night felt the most realistic Corrie has in ages. I actually felt like I was watching real people for once.

Yes! And it was good to see a real storyline for those two for once, something the audience could relate to. Note to Fiz--get a new hairdo at Audrey's!

Jennie McAlpine is so awful most of the time but she was extremely impressive in that 18 page scene. The writing was great, too. That episode could help win the show some awards.

Mmm I wouldn't mind being fostered by Imran either, Kelly!

That Police Officer interrogating Leanne was a hottie!

Rota gave Sharon The Kabin and she sold it!

Rita! Reet ended up buying it back off her!

Does the Rita/Sharon thing start this week?

I think so, R447.

I actually quite liked Billy & Todd as a couple the first time round, but Billy & NuTodd are. so. boring.

The old Todd was better looking than Paul do would never have told the date that he got a trade up.

Fuck Tyrone.

Actually not a bad couple of episodes last night. Even Leanne got a few funny lines. It's so much better without the Baileys and the Billy/Todd/Paul trainwreck.

Notice how the little girl playing Tyrone and Kirsty’s daughter didn’t get camera time after Ty told the girls he and Fizz were splitting up. Because the child is adorable but hopelessly talent free. She was always parroting her mummy who was obviously feeding her the lines from just off camera.

Urgh Izzy is returning. I hadn't noticed she wasn't stinking up the screen.

This show is dire atm.

Has the old bat been cancelled for "trolling"? Lol

I hope her appearance gets pre-empted for a hastily recorded scene or Audrey and Rita nattering on about Prince Philip’s death.

R454 It is sad that the show has done so horribly with younger characters over the last 10 to 20 years. I get so excited when I see Audrey, Rita, Ken, Sally, or Gail on screen, or even Jenny, Carla, Peter, and Tracy. Most of the rest of them are just blah.

R455 I agree. Can't stand the younger characters, boring. I add Evelyn and Roy to your list. Imran and Adam for the sex appeal

R456 I agree with the four of them as well.

R457 do you have any favourite storyline over the last few years?

I liked Rita's Brain Tumor storyline, David's male rape, Aiden's suicide, and the Sinead death.

Carla's rape and mental breakdown (great actress), Hayley dying, Deidre's death and Gail/Audrey together have been highlights for me

Episodes scheduled for Friday 9 April will instead air on Monday, 12 April 12 two single episodes. Monday's episodes will air as a one-hour programme on Tuesday, 13 April.

Too many damn episodes.

Pretty awful of Nick to walk out on Sam like that

Yeah. Gutted by Sam's face at the end.

So Tyrone and Aleeeeeeeeeeeeena fucked. I think him moving home is giving the girls the wrong idea. He and Fiz need to be honest with them and Ty needs to move out. Nice to see Roy bringing treats for the girls' tea. I almost forgot that he and Haley helped raise Fiz. And our Tracy is back to being a royal cunt again. Daniel needs to stop being an old gossip and keep his nose out of Peter and Carla's life.

He’ll be moving in with Alina soon. That should trigger Hope’s malicious tendencies again.

What a bloody stupid storyline. Online troll Kathy going into hiding with the recently carpet munchers at no. 6 is more exciting.

Kathy and Brian need to be axed, they bring nothing to the show

"Peter's either getting wed or dropping dead. Either way, he's gonna need flowers."

Oh, Tracy!!!

Deidre smoking in the ginnel was iconic. Along with her huge belt, stuffed maaarrows and pottery.

Tracy had a great line when she was going off on her own to honeymoon in Moracco.

"I’ve always fancied Morocco,” she said, adding the killer line: “I think it’s the kidney getting homesick.”

Tracy really is the second coming of Blanche.

I loved it when Deirdre referred to Tyrone’s abusive wife Kirsty as “her with the hair.”

Blanche, asking about one of Deidre's bosses: "Him with the nose?" Deidre (perfectly serious): "No, the other one".

Here's a video of some of Blanche. The bit I reference is around 2:40

Simon was a cute kid in the video at r475. Now he looks like a gormless pillock.

Who has the nicest house on the street?

Shitholes: Fiz and Tyrone

Chesney

Eileen

Passable but inelegant: Kevin

Sally and Tim

The Rovers

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Dev

I like Ken's house.

What is this on the wall at the Platts? I've seen similar in other houses. Alarm system? Intercom? Fast-food ordering device?

When Richard Hillman was on the run it was a panic alarm.

I think it's a burglar alarm.

Tracie Bennett better show up as Sharon soon. I’m becoming impatient.

Sharon’s definitely involved in the drugs storyline

And chance Adam Rickitt can return as Nick? He’s way hotter than Ben Price plus we know Nick is a secret bi guy.

I doubt Adam Rickitt will ever return as Nick. Ben Price has played the role for eleven years now (with a brief break from 2017 to 2018). Adam only played him for about a year and a half in the 90s, and then on-and-off from 2002 to 2004. He always pinged my gaydar, but apparently he's married to a woman. The funny thing is I still think of him as the real Nick - similar to the way I still think of Kym Marsh as "Kym from Hear'Say" rather than "Michelle from Corrie", even though she was the latter for much longer than the former!

Maria's anti-stepmother spiel made no sense. Fiz IS Ruby's stepmother!

Haha, R484. Good point.

So Sharon isn’t the drug kingpin, she’s under the thumb of her nephew, Harvey. Oh wel.

The low IQs on the street fived even lower with the Sharon storyline. "I must have grabbed your tablet by mistake!" Another shit set of scripts written by the no-talent idiots at ITV.

How long until Aadi kills Aasha and Corey in an "honour" killing? If she wants to move out (legal for 16 y.o.) then fine -- send her back to Weatherfield High and save the tuition money.

I'm hating this Sharon storyline, but if it gets that toad Simon out of the way, all the better. I'm not familiar with English law, but what could Sharon be charged with for what she's done so far and what might happen?

I don't know what she could be charged with, but the whole storyline is painfully silly. Apart from anything else, why haven't Leanne, Nick and Simon even moved that far away? How rubbish is this witness protection scheme?

I know, they’re in Warrington which is just a hop, skip and a jump away from Weatherfield. They could at least be in the Midlands, somewhere like Birmingham.

So this coming week Seb and Nina are attacked by Corey, Kelly and other drunk teens. I’m guessing Seb will lay in a coma for a bit and then die and Nina will make a full recovery and discover she’s pregnant with Seb’s baby

Wasn't Nina a lez?

R490 They were just experimenting, being fluid.

Sad. She looked like a great lesbian.

This show is unwatchable, not one decent storyline.

I wish they'd bring back Oliver.

Just so we don't have to listen to Steve and Leann bang on about him anymore.

Didn't Tracy also get her box eaten by a woman a while back?

R495 Yes, Paula the lawyer, Sally's old school friend.

Out of Rita's pseudo daughters I like Jenny a hell of a lot more than Sharon.

Sharon was a waster who sold Rita's Kabin out from under her.

Would you eat in Roy's Rolls? Roy and his staff need to wear a hairnet and I prefer the kitchen outback rather than the searing area stinking of chip fat. That being said, I do like the train history and gossip you can overhear

At least Roy’s Rolls doesn’t have that annoying “Sugar-free syrups available” sign like the one on Emmerdale.

I'm glad they keep having characters talk to or about Rita. Not seeing her, and having Sharon around, I'm a little worried about our Rita.

I love Tracie Bennett as Sharon but she’s cackling way too much.

Strong episodes for once! Great performances from the actors who play Abi and Roy in particular.

I fear one of them will die and Peter end up with a new liver.

He’ll end up with Seb’s liver, right? Except can someone with HIV donate a liver?

no r504 -- it can only go to an HIV+ recipient according to UK protocols.

I bet Seb has a nice pinga

It'll be too bad if either Seb or Nina dies. For once, a couple with some spark and sparkle on the cobbles. Asha will probably go to the wall for Corey, stupid girl.

I couldn’t bear to watch the actual assault. Summer witnessed most of it, right? At least Kelly smacking Nina?

I feel sorry for the ones playing Cory, Kelly and the other kids. They’re bound to get a hard time on the street because of their characters’ actions. Just when pubs are reopening and people will be out drinking a lot in warmer weather.

R508 I wouldn't be able to recognise them on the street, they are so inconsequential. Bring back the Corrie oldies! Get Rita on Zoom!

Maybe a Corrie special with Rita, Ken and Audrey?

I am surprised that out of all the teens to become involved in trouble, that Tracey's daughter is one of the most level headed and has largely stayed clear of the bad crowd.

Amy reminds me of Blanche.

Tracy might be a bitch but she really isn't nearly as bad a mother as some others on the cobbles.

Why wasn’t Tracy at Abi’s hen do? I thought they were friends.

The actress playing Amy has managed to get through that “awkward stage” so will probably stay on the show for as long as she wants. Good for her. I hope Faye is banged up forever.

Faye is awful, I didn't like Anna either.

I normally think Fiz is awful but she's actually been surprisingly good with this ridic affair storyline (based off seeing one episode)

Glad they've cut down on Gemma (and Ginger). A little of them needs to go a long way.

Sean is still unbearable and needs to go.

Seb is DEAD to me!

He had a hot ass but he couldn’t live forever.

Killing Seb makes sense from a storyline point of view. More drama for Abi and Kevin. Grief for Nina. Guilt for the murderers.

Maybe the actor wanted out. He's a sexy young thing who might think he can make it big

I don’t think the actor wanted out, I think Seb was killed off for storyline purposes. His death will have a big impact on Weatherfield. I wonder if Leanne and Abj will actually find themselves in grief therapy sessions. Have those two ever been in scenes together? I doubt it.

Thanks for spoiling it, motherfuckers.

Why were they beat up? I know it's not real but was really disgusted seeing Nina so badly bruised. People can be animals

I stupidly checked my phone for the local election results before I watched the episode, and the first thing I saw was a tweet saying "RIP Seb"! Totally spoiled it for myself.

When I saw Seb laying bare chested on the hospital bed, all I could think about was ejaculating on his furry little pecs.

I am an animal.

He seemed to have manboobs when he was wearing a t-shirt earlier in the week but didn’t appear to have them when he was lying in hospital bare chested. Bad continuity, heh heh.

Asha's shown her true colours, insisting to Nina that Corey wasn't the culprit before even asking about Seb

R522 lying down makes your boobs slide down, have you never watched The Golden Girls?

R520 where are you?

R523 I had the measure of that little strumpet when she was nasty to her brother when he was sticking up for her in front of ugly Corey last year.

R524 she is as bad as her whore of a mother. Remember, the fact that Dev was with another woman, when he and Sunita started their love affair. Then she later got back with Dev, while she was engaged to another man. And, of course who can forget Sunita and Karl's affair which led to her death.

Thanks for joining us Maya/R525!

It seems obvious that Corey will get off because his rich dad gets him a good lawyer. And then Abi probably murders him when Sally Carman decides to leave the show,

R526 Actually, I'm Stella Price, ;)

And I'm Ena Sharples., r536 and r528. Now bring me a milk stout.

Maya was hilarious. One of the show's best villains.

They really did turn once-sensible Sunita into a slut for her final storyline with Karl. I think I remember the actress speaking out about it. I also remember she found out about Dev's affair and almost had an abortion when she was 5 months pregnant

Imagine working in an office with Adam and Imran. Rosie's knickers must have been soaking!

[quote] [R520] where are you?

Scotland

R533 I'm in London. Crazy election results. I wonder if they will reference it in the show?

Sean should be killed off when his pyramid scheme collapses. Big Eileen kills him and gets sent to prison. Two birds, one stone

Corey could be killed in a who done it around New Years Eve.

It will be Asha but Aadi will take the blame

R534, I knew things would be bad for Labour but not quite this bad. It would be quite entertaining if the Corrie characters discussed politics. I expect most of them would have voted Leave in 2016, for example.

What's happened to Kathy the troll?

R539 Last I heard/saw Cathy was holed up with Yasmeen and Elaine and driving them bonkers.

Are Yasmin and Elaine butting uglies?

no they arent. though the actress playing yasmin is a lesbian

What's the lesbian version of a lemon party?

Gail should become a lesbian after all her disasters with men. She could hook up with Elaine

Well, Gail’s dad turned out to be gay.

Yes, Asha! I'm glad the writers haven't gone down the predictable route of having her lie for Corey.

Sally Carman totally broke me when she read out Seb’s best man speech. I know...MARY!

^ She's been fantastic in these last few episodes

^ She has, I hope she wins some awards for this story.

I’m pretty sure she will.

Apparently the reason they created the character of Nina in 2019 was for this storyline. That makes me wonder why certain elements are so rushed. Why didn't they get Seb and Nina together months ago? It would have been much more poignant if they had; as it stands, it's hard to take Nina's claim that she "loved Seb so much" seriously. Why didn't they move Kelly in with Toyah and Imran last year?

Good points, R551.

This storyline has some good points (primarily Sally Carman and David Neilson’s acting) but it hasn’t been thought through enough. The attack is being too murkily handled. Are we really supposed to think that Corey has a scintilla of remorse? That his dad really believes he didn’t do it? And Kelly is totally irredeemable and unworthy of sympathy-her laughter is just the tipping point. When she raced over to Corey’s afterward she didn’t show any sign of horror at what had just happened, all she cared about was saving her own skin.

I’d love for Asha to have a dream where Nina goes full Goth again, develops telekinesis and flips over Corey and Kelly in a car, pausing as they lie there pleading for their lives and then she blows their heads off their bodies.

R551 Could it have been because of the production shut down and fewer episodes when they did return, that makes it seem rushed? My guess is that the Seb actor, had to be let go at a certain time, because of the way contracts are.

You may be right, R553. The producers did say a lot of storylines had to be rewritten due to the pandemic.

Is this thread paywalled?

I don't know why this popped into my head but if they ever make a film/tv series that features middle aged Fergie Duchess of York, Sally Ann Matthews(Jenny) would be a great person to cast.

Audrey was pretty funny chatting to Sam the other day.

R557 she was. “I don’t like to drink on a full stomach.” If Sharon is caught being involved in hurting Sam in anyway, I think she might end up at the bottom of the sinkhole. Because the whole family loves the little guy so much. Even David seems to really like him in his snarky David way.

Sam is adorable. I loved Audrey calling him Ben a few times.

Why would anyone want to be friends with Cathy?

Natasha is gonna be dead by next week, I can feel it in me water.

I hope Emma's new romance works out, I want her to have a really great guy at least once. She is like a sad shelter dog, you just really want her to find a "forever" home.

I think Curtis is a bad guy, though.

Is Kathy still hoarding?

She was, while at Yasmin's. Brian came and took her home. Elaine also moved out into Tim and Sally's. Then Elaine decided to move back to her flat.

Is Kathy still cancelled for hoarding?

I was hoping to see either Abi or Roy go Harry Brown on Corey and his mates. Abi would be the obvious choice, but I think Roy would be more entertaining.

Some pictures of Sam Retford who plays Curtis. No verificatia, but he is quite nice.

He's not bad, I'd suck him off in the Rovers cellar.

He's a hot piece.

I want Adam up my arse and Imran down my throat.

I still fantasize about swallowing Tony’s hot Scottish jizz.

Carla said Tony was under-endowed.

I'd rip that new boys pants off and suckle him

I hope that bugger Sharon gets kicked in her fanny by Granny Gail!

R574 Don't stop with Gail, Jenny should tie her up in the basement of the Rovers and let everyone on the street take turns. For a small fee of course, pubs are struggling don't you know.

I think it will be revealed that Sharon had a kid who died so that would give her, Jenny, Leanne and Abi all something in common. Still not enough to redeem her, though.

Harvey is hot.

Sarah is quite the cunt. She's pussy-whipped Adam.

Mainly knowing Tony Maudsley from his work on Benidorm, I didn't know how good he would be playing a dramatic role, especially an undertaker. But, he really has the calm reassuring manner of an undertaker down. Honestly, I would use his services to handle a loved one's funeral.

Also, I'd love to see a spin off with Jenny and Gary being detectives, call it Ginger & Ginger.

Sam conking the drug dealer over the head was patently ridiculous but still fun.

No way we’ve seen the last of Sharon. We can’t be denied a showdown between her and Leeanne.

What did our Rita have to say to that bitch Sharon?

R580 It was kinda ridiculous but I liked it. It showed some character development for Sam, he is more than just the smart little kid. It showed he also has some of his Dad's family's genes and isn't afraid to act when he needs to.

R582, they were good scenes. Barbara Knox underplayed beautifully and Tracie Bennet has a significant amount of snot lining her uppef lip which she never wiped off.

R584 Brabara Knox can still give great performances when given the chance. She was great in these scenes and she was very good in the brain tumor story the other year. Really the old vets can act rings around most of the younger ones even a few that have been on for years now.

Thanks, I watched last night and the acting was terrific. Barbara was totally convincing.

Sarah is a bigger cunt than my friend Julie.

I thought the NHS was so spectacular, so why all this agro over a liver transplant? There is little risk to the donor and their liver grows back within six weeks. It is one of the easiest life saving things a family member can do for another.

It's a soap, r588. And they are likely setting up a split between Sarah and Adam. I wish a fucking house would fall on Sarah Lou. Selfish, self-centred, and a cunt.

Her mother Gail is a peach.

R589 I know its a soap, but it just rings hollow. If he needed a kidney, I could see the issue because while you can function with one what if it goes bad on you at some point? But, getting worked up over a liver transplant, that could save a person's life is stupid. It also makes a fairly likeable character, Sarah, into a raging bitch.

Carla needs to stop wearing such drab colours, she's almost as bad as Sharon in Eastenders.

Digital Spy has info on the schedule change due to football.

"Coronation Street has confirmed details of its first Euro 2020 schedule changes.

The ITV soap will be airing on different days and times than usual throughout the football tournament, which begins on June 11.

Corrie will start to be affected in the week commencing Monday, June 14, when the show gets less screen time than usual.

Rather than the usual six episodes, Corrie will have two hour-long broadcasts during the week.

The first will air on Monday, June 14 between 9pm and 10pm.

Corrie will then be off-screen until Thursday, June 17, airing in another hour-long slot from 9pm to 10pm.

No episode will air on Friday, June 18.

Further schedule changes will take place beyond this, but these have yet to be confirmed.

The good news for Corrie fans is that they won't have to wait for these TV broadcasts if they don't want to.

As announced earlier this week, ITV Hub will be premiering Corrie episodes early for a four-week period during Euro 2020. A week's worth of episodes will be available to stream each Monday, before they go out on ITV.

This means that both hour-long episodes can be watched at fans' convenience from June 14 via the Hub, or viewers can choose to wait until they air on TV in the usual way."""

R593 I wonder if Britbox in the US will follow the ITV schedule or do like ITV Hub.

I do too, r594. I doubt it though.

Someone has started a Part V last month.

R596 This one hasn't closed out yet

But It's about to.

I'm glad our Jenny, didn't suffer too much from the tasering.

Is there a better street on earth, than Coronation Street?