Coronation Street weekly updates

August 2, 2010

Sorry, no update for this week

August 9, 2010

Here I am, back after a short break. Thanks for bearing with me while I’ve been away. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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There's a scary pair of eyes with Cheryl's husband Chris behind them, stalking on the Street. He wants his wife and son back and isn't happy that they've moved in with Lloyd. Meanwhile, Lloyd's over the moon as he's getting some red wine action with Cheryl but he isn't too happy when she tells him she wants to be just mates.

More lusting's going on down the Street when Eileen eyes up Ricky Gervais who's doing an extra shift as Owen the builder. He's got stubble, his own teeth and his own ladder and that makes him a go-er in Eileen's book. Even without his own teeth she'd consider him, so that's a bonus really. She takes Owen to look at Tyrone and Molly's house that she's thinking about buying but after Molly takes a funny turn and spends the night in hospital, she tells Tyrone that she's happy to stay on the Street and Eileen's plan to move will have to change.

Audrey's all loved up after a dirty weekend in Greece with the charming Lewis. "Ooh, the light," she witters on her return to anyone who'll listen. "You could see for a thousand miles." Clearly not, as Audrey can't see past the end of her nose and it'll come as a shock when she finds out that not only is Lewis snogging Deirdre but that he's also got his fingers in her till and robbing the bookies. Wearing her rose-tinted sun specs, Audrey puts an offer in on a hotel and opens a bank account for her and Lewis to buy a little place in Greece. She'd be better off if she'd stayed with Bill, who calls into the salon asking for a Tawny Infusion. I thought that was a new Newton and Ridley bitter. Roy advises Lewis to look out for the Monarchus monarchus, the Greek seal. Audrey would be advised to watch out for sharks. No-one would be advised to watch Deirdre snogging Lewis but it's going to be all over the place as their kiss was captured on CCTV.

Speaking of the salon, Natasha and Maria are at odds as both of them want to invest in the place when Audrey swans off to Greece. It's been fun watching them fight over clients but Natasha's got more on her plate when she finds she's up the duff. Nick doesn't want to commit to even taking a look at Dev's flat for them to move in together so he's going to run a mile when she tells him about baby Platt.

Fiz follows the bad smell under her nose and ends up at Charlotte's house, demanding to know what's going on between her and John and wondering where Colin Fishwick's gone. He's dead, under the floor at Underworld (if I'd've done an update last week, you'd have known all about this!) but Charlotte lies and says he's gone back to Canada. John's in a constant sweat and Fiz leaves him to go on holiday to Spain on her own.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Martin Allen, Julie Jones, Joe Turner, David Lane and Mark Burt.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

August 16, 2010

This week the update's looking forward to its birthday next week when it'll officially be middle-aged. The update next week will therefore slide along the pipes a little later in the week as it may take a little while to blow out those birthday candles. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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On the Street where time enters the twilight zone and a house sale takes 2 weeks instead of 6 months, the knicker factory reopens just a few episodes after being burned to the ground. It's still got a dead body underneath the freshly laid cement, however, and Julie thinks she smells a rat when the girls move back in to work at their machines. But the stench is coming from Hayley's sardine sandwiches so it was something fishy that Julie could smell, not something Fishwick.

The factory's quick turnaround is thanks to new builder Owen, who works as quickly flirting with the laydees as he does with the trowel and probably lays it on just as thick. He's winking at Eileen while giving Liz the glad eye in the bar. But he falls out with Bill, tells him he's too old for the trade before offering him menial work doing some pointing. Not the kind of pointing where you stick out your finger and go "ooh, look at that" but the kind of pointing where you're up on a roof filling gaps in the brickwork, knock a bucket to the ground that narrowly misses hitting Owen's daughter Izzy on the head and go "ooh, look at that". That sort of pointing. Bill's troubled through lack of work and falls out with Jason who's now joined the other side and is working for Owen. So troubled is Bill that he tells Owen he's willing to sell the builder's yard to him if the price is right.

Down the street at the bookies all bets are off as Deirdre and Lewis are caught kissing under the CCTV watchful eye of big brother and lands everyone in big bother. Leanne had left Deirdre in the betting shop alone and seduced by Lewis' lips, she nips home for a corkscrew to have a glass of wine with the wily cad. While Deirdre's out Lewis knocks up a fraudulent betting slip and when Deirdre asks him what he's doing behind the counter when she returns, corkscrew in hand, he snogs her face off to distract her. And a distracted Deirdre is caught by the camera kissing Lewis in the shop. Well, you just know now that their camera on kiss deserves a wider audience and it gets one at Audrey's leaving do.

At Gail's house all the usuals are gathered around for wine and goodbyes. There's Rita and Claudia and all of Gail's family who are joined by the Barlows when Peter storms in to show the video of the kiss, demanding his four thousand pounds back that Lewis has ‘won' on his £2 five horse accumulator. The old nags Lewis has accumulated look on aghast as Peter shows them the video and Audrey breaks down. Gail's incensed at the Barlows once again making a mockery of the Platts and she picks up the closest thing to hand, a cream Manchester tart and throws it at Deirdre, hitting her slap-bang right in the middle of her face. This was the funniest thing on Corrie in ages, it was wonderful stuff. "Ken! Do Something!" Deirdre screams but all Ken can do is turn off and tut. The one saving grace for Audrey is that Lewis might have ripped out her heart but he hasn't ripped off her bank balance and when she gets back to the house, in pieces and in tears, she finds a photo of them both with "I tried…" written on the back. Once a gigolo, always a gigolo, only this time Lewis heads out to Barbados. David sums up his gran's situation completely: "She was ripped off by a geriatric rent boy."

At the Barlows' the tea-table plays host to an autopsy on marriage. Whose affair was the worst? Why isn't Ken like Lewis? Why isn't Deirdre more Martha? What's for tea anyway? Ken turns off Dusty Springfield for a classical choon on the wireless, and for me, that would have been grounds for divorce. Nobody should switch off Dusty and get away with it, no one.

At Sally's house, Sophie and Sian's secret visit to a music festival is uncovered when Sally gets a call from the festival saying they've found Sophie's purse. Sophie's grounded, Sian's sent home, Kev agrees with his missus and Sally's renamed ‘a right fascist cow' by her second born.

Natasha finds out she's pregnant but she doesn't get the chance to tell Nick, he dumps her because she's being too needy and weedy. Leanne finds her crying at the bus stop and puts two and two together to make one and one plus a lickle baby and although Natasha begs her not to tell Nick, you just know the secret will come out. Leanne and Nick are getting quite close, and when Peter walks into the Rovers to find Nick with his hand on Leanne's hand he throws a wobbly, takes Nick outside and knocks him out on the cobbles. Oh, how we cheered from our sofa when the Plattilsley boy got socked in the mush. "You're where you deserve," spits Peter to Nick lying prone on the ground "In the gutter." "Yeah, but I'm looking at the stars." replies Nick a la Oscar Wilde by way of Raquel Watts. Later in the factory, Nick and Leanne share a tender moment, it's clear Nick still loves his ex-wife but this time they're caught out by Natasha who walks in on them, announces she's pregnant and then watches in tears as Nick squeals away in his car.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Jan McVerry, John Kerr, Carmel Morgan and Simon Crowther.

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Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

August 23, 2010

This week the update comes to you the day after my birthday, hence the reason it's a little late this week. Well. do you know how long it takes to blow out them candles? Anyway, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Fiz cuts short her Spanish trip alone because she's found out she's up the duff with the evil child of John Stape. John's over the moon, sets fire to Colin Fishwick's ID papers and sets about settling down to normal life on the Street. He gets a job at the bookies and starts reading parenting books while Fiz and Natasha bond over babies. Not that Natasha's pregnant, she's just pretending she is so she can keep Nick. "I've gone right off curries and Branston pickle," says Fiz. Natasha notes it all down so she knows the right things to say back at the Plattisley love-nest they're renting from Dev. "Natasha's gone right off curries and Branston pickle," reports Nick in the Rovers, and a quizzical look clouds over Fiz's face. Natasha's only gone and had an abortion, thinking that Nick didn't want to be with her, you see, so he thinks she's pregnant and as she doesn't want to lose him, she pretends she's still up the duff to keep Weatherfield's most gormless bloke. Gail, as you can imagine, is not best pleased, especially when she's told off at the health centre for revealing to Nick that Natasha was in with the doctor. Nick bursts into the consulting room with a beam on his face going "I'm the daddy!". No Nick, you're the prat. Leanne isn't happy either when she finds out that Nick's staying with Natasha and there was a wonderful line in the back yard at the Rovers when Natasha had a word with Leanne and told her to lay off her Nick: "You really should go out and get some waterproof mascara, ‘cos you'll be crying for the next nine months!"

Audrey, meanwhile, doesn't take long to shake herself off, dust herself down and start all over again. Rita pops round to have a heart to heart with Audrey and tells her to stop licking her Lewis wounds and get back to the salon quick sharp as David's in charge and chaos looms large. Hey, that bit rhymed. Audrey takes up the reigns at the salon again and puts the world to rights with a tinted perm and a whiff of L'Oreal. Because she's worth it.

There's bad news for Steve and Becky this week when they're turned down for adoption by the panel at Weatherfield Children's Services. The panel says it's too early for them to adopt after Becky's miscarriages and that Steve and Becky haven't been together long enough and aren't stable enough to take on another child. Becky's on the edge when she finds out that her half-sister Kylie lied on a reference to Children's Services. There were some lovely touching scenes in this story with Steve and Becky going through hell and then Liz trying to soothe her son's woes on the back stairs at the pub.

And finally this week, over at the Barlow's there's more marital woe for Deirdre and Ken when she banishes him to the spare bedroom. The
worst thing was, Ken doesn't even care. Run, Deirdre, run. Or at least catch the Weatherfield Wayfarer and just get out for a bit.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Jayne Hollinson, Simon Crowther, Jonathan Harvey, Mark Wadlow and Joe Turner.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

August 30, 2010

This week the update's caught the bouquet and is finishing off the cake from the Corrie wedding of the year. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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The big story this week has been Roy and Hayley's wedding. Mad Mary almost mucked it up when she tried to uncouple the couple on their happy day. But let's retrace our steps a little and wiggle back to Hayley's hen night in Roy's Rolls. The hen party's in full swing with the girls dressed up in sexy nurses outfits and Mary's upset as she hasn't been invited so she leaves the girls to their debauchery and heads home for a fish supper. The party moves on from the Rovers to the café where there's a latin lothario waiting to whisk Hayley around the café floor with some sexy salsa moves. Even Roy donned a rakish moustache and had a smile on his face. He was smiling even more on his wedding day when he got the chance to drive a steam train (Lancashire Fusilier No. 44871) to the wedding venue. As Roy and Chesney chuff it out up front in the engine room, the guests are enjoying themselves and having fun in the first class carriage. At the end of the train are Hayley and the bridesmaids, Becky and Fiz, unwaware that Mary's uncoupled their carriage from the main train. And so, Hayley's carriage sits on a train line in the middle of nowhere until they figure out what's gone on and get out. At first they walk, then run, then find a pump wagon. Hayley hoiks her frock up as Becky and Fiz give it what-for and get the bride to the venue in time for her say "I do" to Roy and dance to the Manchester show choir. It was done beautifully, a proper Cropper do, and I have to admit I had a lump in my throat. And so, Roy and Hayley are now wed; legally, properly, lovely.

Elsewhere this week, Sophie and Sian's gay secret is out when they go babysitting for Claire who has to rush off as her mum's had an angina attack. When Claire returns, she spots the two girls snogging on her sofa but keeps quiet about it at first. But when little Aadi is rushed into hospital unconscious, Claire gets blamed for hitting the kid while he was in her care. What really happened was that little Simon Barlow threw Aadi off the sofa and Aadi bumped his head, but Simon's keeping quiet on that bit so far. Anyway, Claire's not best pleased, as you can imagine, to be accused of child abuse and blurts out to everyone that Sophie and Sian were kissing when they should have been looking after the kids. Sally's in denial and won't believe that Sophie's a lesbian but Sophie reveals all to her dad later and tells him that Claire was speaking the truth. Cue Kevin's furrowed brow and grunts of "what the `eck?"

After Becky and Steve were turned down by the adoption panel last week, Becky finds out where her sister's living and goes to have a word. They two of them are beating each other up one minute and then next, sister Kylie's moved into the Rovers and Robbie Williams is singing Angels on the jukebox when Becky puts on her sad face. Kylie's got a little boy called Max who's with foster parents as she's deemed to be, by those who deem these things, an unfit mother. She causes grief in the pub by flirting with Ciaran which upsets Michelle. Michelle lashes out with her first but instead of hitting Kylie, she misses and belts Becky instead. Steve fires her but Liz re-hires her and Michelle and her cleaveage are soon back behind the bar.

Meanwhile, Eileen goes out on a date with Owen the builder and gets blind drunk. "Do you want to come in for a night cap?" she asks him at the end of the night. "And by night cap, I do mean sex!" He declines the coffee, even if it was offered with froth but helps her put in an offer on No. 9 as the landlord is threatening to throw her out and sell up, so Eileen decides to buy the place herself.

Over at Emily's there's mice in the hice and when Norris strips the skirting board to find out how the rodent's got in, he finds an old letter that's been there since 1961. It's an unopened envelope addressed to Ken Barlow and Ken's agog to find it's from an old girlfriend, Susan Cunningham. He tracks down Susan's sister who used to run a wool shop and discovers Susan's got a son called Lawrence. What he doesn't yet know is that Lawrence is Ken's son too, it'll all come out in the wash next week. And what does Deirdre think about this turn of events? It's hard to tell as she's doing her very best to ignore Ken after her Lewis lustfest t'other week. There was a wonderful scene when Ken came into the house looking for something to eat. With not a word being spoken between them, he sees Deirdre at the table, eating her meal and assumes that his dinner will be in the oven. It's not. He opens the fridge to see if there's anything in there for him. There isn't. Neither is there anything in the cupboards for him to cook, no bread in the bread bin, no beans in the tins, no more love in that house. Silently, he stands and watches as Deirdre tips the remains of her meal straight into the bin – a cracking Corrie scene.

And finally this week, Fiz gets her baby scan and shares it with Natasha who nicks it and pretends that it's hers and Nicks. Nick wants to start buying baby clothes and can't understand why Natasha's not keen. Meanwhile, she's pinning him to the bed at every opportunity in the hope she'll get pregnant and he'll not notice that she's not.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Damon Rochefort, Mark Burt, Peter Whalley, Julie Jones and Debbie Oates.

Glenda Young
Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com