May 4, 2009
Greetings and welcome to another weekly update choc-full of cobbles gossip. The update this week comes atcha from the tail-end of what’s been a lovely, long Bank Holiday weekend and hates that it has to return to work tomorrow. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
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Coming up for air through smoke left by the bombshell dropped last week are Julie and Eileen who reel at the news they’re now sisters. Not only that, they have a pervert for a dad. And in the Kabin, Rita wishes she’d worn waterproof mascara as tears fall over the shock of finding out she was in love with a kiddy-fiddler. Rita’s in bits, but when Colin comes into the Kabin with a bunch of cheap flowers and a patronising line: “I might be your last chance…” she gives him back his engagement ring and then goes upstairs for another Rita-size cry into man-size tissues.
Deirdre pops in to comfort Eileen and encourages her to get out and face the gossip. “I can’t,” says Eileen, in a wonderful line. “I’ll be deafened by the whispers.” And Julie snuggles up to Kirk on the sofa, trying to make sense of what’s going on. “We’re stuck with each other, me and the truth,” she says. I loved all this dialogue from writer Chris Fewtrell, it was classic Corrie stuff to the end. With Eileen out of sorts and at home away from work, Steve and Lloyd agree to get Fat Brenda in to work on the switch. And Colin? He has a stroke brought on by stress and ends up in th’ospital where Julie’s the only one who’s visited him so far.
When Norris finds out what’s gone on with Rita, he gets all self-righteous about knowing Colin was a bad ‘un right from the start but then comforts Rita when he sees what a state she’s in. Meanwhile, Mary’s urging Norris to start packing for their trip of a lifetime but Norris has more on his mind than the Ferker Pass. He’s worrying about leaving the magazine order in chaos: “It was bad enough Kirk getting Roy's ‘History Today’,” he says, “We don't want Roy with Kirk's ‘Nuts’ on his doormat.” Indeed, we do not.
Meanwhile at the Barlows’, Blanche provides a running commentary on all the gossip on the Street. Deirdre tells her mum to pipe down but Blanche retorts wonderfully: “I’m old, I’m fragile, I have a dodgy hip and I have to take me pleasures where I can.” If she only knew what her son-in-law was up to, her pleasure cup would runneth over with gossip of the highest degree. Ken only goes and sees Martha again and this time, they set the barge rocking. As they head to the bedroom, Eccles doesn’t know which way to look. After their spot of rumpy-pumpy, Martha’s all shimmery in a satin negligee and Ken’s post-coital glow is enough to light up Rosamund Street but his smile soon fades after Martha reveals she’s sailing away in the morn. Ken has a lot to think about. Does he shimmy away with Martha or stay put with Deirdre? He knows what he’d like to do and feels hemmed in by the constraints of the cobbles. Has he got the guts to go? He thinks he has and packs his little bag with his jim-jams. He puts in his notice at the caff and cancels his Guardian at the Kabin. He eats his last hot-pot in the Rovers and leaves Deirdre a letter which he places by the photo of Uncle Albert on the sideboard. Ashamed of what Uncle Albert would say, he turns the photo face down. And that’s when Peter comes in and discovers his dad ready to ditch Deirdre and leave. Peter’s words fall on deaf ears and with a Newton & Ridley beer mat in his pocket as a keepsake, Ken heads to the canal. He boards the boat and sips soup with Martha. And when she casts off, she calls out to Ken that there’s champagne in the bedroom to celebrate him casting off from the cobbles. But there’s no reply to Martha’s call and that’s because Ken’s not on the boat. He’s standing on the bridge over troubled waters as Martha sails away. And hasn’t Stephanie Beacham been wonderful?
Over in the Rovers, Becky and Amy bond over a boy who’s bullying Amy at school. Becky gives the kid the evil eye after school which is enough to scare anyone off and seems to do the trick. Steve’s glad to see Becky bonding with Amy but surprised to get a postcard from Liz saying she’s staying in Spain a while longer for sun, sea, sand and etcetera. He passes the news on to Lloyd who’s not best pleased. He misses his Liz and wants her back: “Your mother’s always been very fond of the etcetera,” he sighs to Steve in the pub.
And finally this week, Roy decides he can trust Anna Windass enough to give her his customer number for Priceco (it’s 73542553) and along with his password (PuffingBilly). Feckless Eddie of course takes both and spends a fortune on wholesale booze for which Roy will be charged and Anna will be blamed.
Coronation Street writers this week were the powerhouse that is Julie Jones, Chris Fewtrell and Simon Crowther.
Glenda
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May 11, 2009
Greetings and welcome to another weekly update. The update’s a little late this week. It wasn’t a matter of life or death which prevented the update coming through on time, but I can assure you, it was something much more serious than that (thank you Bill Shankly). And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
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Dev Alahan, eh? You ever love him or you hate him but you wouldn’t really want him with all his nuddy bits out, not unless you were desperate, or Deirdre. But Dev in the nuddy was exposed in all his glory in a twenty foot poster dropped down the side of Victoria Court flats this week when Tara exacted her revenge on him for cheating on her with Lisa. Now then, officially, I thought they were on a break. “We were on a break!” yells Dev, but it’s no good, Tara’s gone and unveiled his exposure to the world with the word LIAR splashed across his little Devendra. “That man’s got no clothes on,” says Simon Barlow when the poster’s unveiled as everyone else takes pictures with their phones. Later in the Rovers, Pam offers to Bluetooth Dev’s nuddy picture to Sean across the bar. Annie Walker must be spinning in her grave. But poor Dev, as if that wasn’t embarrassing enough, he’d only just been down on one knee and proposed to Tara with a bunch of roses in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other. Anyway, there’s tears and Tara leaves. “I never trusted that girl,” says comedy Uncle Umed, “her mouth was too wide.”
Corrie at the minute is on fire with damn fine scripts, fab stories and acting and Ken and Deirdre’s marriage came under scrutiny this week. Afraid that Peter is about to blow his cover and tell Deirdre about Martha, Ken comes clean and hands Deirdre the letter he was going to leave for her when he planned to sail away on Martha’s barge. But Deirdre isn’t gobsmacked by Ken’s declaration of love for another woman. She’s used to it now and settles down for a lifetime of dullness where the only thing to look forward to is decorating their living room a new shade of Barlow beige.
Deirdre tells Ken he’s a coward (he is) that he’s not staying with her because he loves her, it’s because he was too scared to sail away just like he was too scared to submit his novel to a publisher, because then he’d find out just how really crap he is. Ooh, she was good, was Deirdre in this bit. Ken wants Deirdre to yell at him, lose her temper, get angry, but she can’t. She really doesn’t care that much about Ken or their marriage and refuses to heed to Blanche’s call to throw him out, so Blanche goes instead. She packs her bags and bumps into Kirk outside the house. “Are you going on yer holidays?” he asks her, seeing her with the suitcase. “Yes, I’m going to hell in a handcart” she replies before she tootles across the road to the bookies where she moves in with Peter and Simon. It’s not long before she gets under Peter’s skin and on his piggin’ nerves and takes his temperature with a rectal thermometer. And that’s something you don’t get in a soap every day.
At the Grimshaw’s, Julie and Eileen go through anger and denial before they accept that they’re sisters. Ooh, they’ll be borrowing each others’ clothes and fellas soon. Meanwhile, Colin lies ill in hospital after his stroke with occasional visits from the Grimshaw clan and the only grapes they take in are sour.
Meanwhile, Mary sits tight in the motorhome outside of Emily’s house waiting for Norris to pack his bags and set off with her on their trip around the world. Norris has no plans to go anywhere, certainly not exploring south of the border with Mary in the motorhome. He hasn’t got the courage to tell Mary all of this yet, but when he does, she’ll not be best pleased.
And finally this week, Michelle’s got both Peter and Luke sniffing round her wanting a bit of Connor lurve. But how to decide which one she should choose? I suggest a twenty foot high poster of both of them in the nude to help focus the mind.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Coronation Street writers this week were the powerhouse that is Martin Allen, David Lane, Julie Jones, Mark Burt and Damon Rochefort.
Glenda
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May 18, 2009
Hello and welcome to another weekly update. It’s late again this week for the very same reason it was late last week. When you’re a football fan, especially when it’s almost the end of the season and your team’s life hangs in the balance between VIP and economy, well, it’s all you can do to tune in and watch the action from behind a cushion. I can’t even promise the update won’t be late next week ‘cos it’s a Bank Holiday Weekend and I just might be out somewhere exotic, Sainsbury’s perhaps. But anyway, without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
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It’s been a bit of a week for Norris. First off Mary tries to seduce him in the motorhome with her amuse bouche and Sheena Easton impression. “What do you wear in bed?” she purrs to the reluctant newsagent. “Me?” she replies without being asked. “I wear a touch of Tweed by Lentheric and I like to stroke my muumuu.” She’s all over him, is Mary, and Norris isn’t best pleased, he runs for the door and flings Mary to the ground. So it comes as no surprise that Mary sets off on her grand tour in her anorak, alone. You’d think Norris would be happy that Mary’s gone but he’s left wondering if he’s made a big mistake. And just as Norris is pondering this, into his life walks his half-brother Manuel. He’s from Barcelona, you know.
Norris and Ramsay haven’t seen each other for 50 years so was I the only viewer to raise an eyebrow that they recognised each other immediately in the Rovers? Norris wants nowt to do with Ramsay and tells Rita and Emily that Ramsay killed their mum. These are strong words from Norris but it turns out the truth is far less murderous and Norris is being a big drama queen.
Best scene of the week for this Corrie fan was Deirdre dancing around the kitchen, just to spite Ken. She turns the radio up loud and dances by the kitchen sink to defy Ken and his air of Radio 4. She throws wanton abandon to the wind of a pop tune and lets Ken know in no uncertain terms that she’s fed up to the back teeth with him being a boring old tart.
Meanwhile over the road, Peter tries but gets nowhere with Michelle, who’s eyeing up Luke Strong. He’s the man who always goes back for the wabbit, remember, and he might also be the man who always gets the girl.
Boring story of the week was Fiz finding out that John’s been beaten up in prison and lies ill in a hospital bed. Maria gets the truth out about John from Fiz and like the whole of the nation, yells at the TV screen: “Oi, Fiz! No!”
Over at the cash and carry, Eddie Windass takes Roy’s ID to buy loads of cheap booze. As he goes through the security exit, the buzzers go off and the store’s on alert. But he doesn’t get nicked, oh no. The store manager tells Eddie that he’s won a European weekend break to a destination of his choice. It’ll all come out in the wash, these things always do.
Elsewhere, Connie invites Jack to spend two weeks in Spain. He’s got the string vest and the hankie for his head, so he needs no persuading. But he lies to Molly and Tyrone and says he’s off to Blackpool, on his own.
And at Eileen’s house, Colin pops his clogs and dies on the sofa, just before the police come to arrest him. The one good, nay, excellent thing to come out of this storyline is that once they get over the funeral and grief, Eileen and Julie could well become one of Corrie’s best ever comedy and dramatic partnership. Have we ever had a pair of middle-aged sisters on Corrie before?
And that’s just about that for this week.
Coronation Street writers this week were Jonathan Harvey, Peter Whalley and Lucy Gannon.
Glenda
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May 25, 2009
Greetings and welcome to a special Whitsuntide edition of the weekly update. This week the update has its knotted hanky on its head as it sits on a stripey deckchair in the garden eating mushy peas. But that’s enough malarkey and without any further ado, here we go with this week’s Coronation Street update.
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News of Colin’s death spreads fast as Julie wails the length of Rosamund Street. Not only is she grieving but she wants everyone to know it, especially Eileen, who Julie accuses of being cold about the death of their dad. Eileen’s grieving too, just in her own way. Missing out on a great excuse to bring back Archie Shuttleworth, the funeral goes ahead and Julie and Eileen thaw towards each other while Rita makes her mind up to attend too late and misses it all. Mind you, I’m surprised Blanche wasn’t there with her mint imperials and a Marian Keyes. Julie tries bonding with big sister Eileen and brings round The Sound of Music on DVD. Eileen gets stuck into the booze while Julie and Sean get teary during Edelweiss. Oh me too, every time.
Chesney finds out that Fiz has been visiting John in prison and isn’t best pleased. He bribes Eddie Windass with Les’ Status Quo badge into telling him where he’s dropped Fiz off in his taxi. The passing of Les Battersby’s Status Quo badge to Eddie was symbolic in its way. It’s the badge of a feckless man and Eddie Windass now wears it with pride. Chesney implodes with anger and spite at his stupid sister and then does the grown-up thing and runs away. Fortunately he doesn’t run very far and ends up in the Windass’s shed. Sophie finds out the reason Chesney ran away and tells Sally and Kev who storm round to give Fiz a piece of what-for. Ches then tells Fiz she has to make a choice between him and John Stape and she heads to the prison in tears. For once, the Stapester does the right thing and tells Fiz he won’t allow her to visit anymore because he can see how much hurt that he’s caused. Meanwhile, thousands of Corrie fans up and down the country shout at their TV for Fiz to get a grip.
Norris tries to get to cope with having brother Ramsay around. He’s all for ignoring him but Ramsay’s not to be ignored. He’s in the Rovers getting filled in all on the gossip by Blanche, chatting up Rita and Emily and joining in a sing-song of The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with Deirdre and Ken. Come on Corrie, if you’re going to get Deirdre singing in the Rovers, at least let her get her harmonic out. Best line of the week went to Deirdre in the Rovers with Ken at the bar. He orders a pint and Poppy says in surprise: “I thought you were a half man?” to which Deirdre gets in quick with: “Yes, that’s always been his problem.” But it looks like Norris and Ramsay might be thawing towards each other after Norris wins the pub quiz tie-breaker, beating his brother.
And just as Luke thinks he’s getting somewhere with Michelle, she announces she’s off on a singing tour with JD and the band for six months. This means Luke and Michelle have ten days together before she leaves so he tells her he wants a holiday romance in the time that they’ve got and sets up a paddling pool and deck-chairs in Maria’s back yard. It’s all a bit contrived but it’s a set up to see who Michelle will end up with – Peter, Luke, or some other fella from the Old Testament.
And that’s just about that for this week.
Coronation Street writers this week were Damon Rochefort, Debbie Oates, Julie Jones, Jayne Hollinson and Joe Turner.
Glenda
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