Coronation Street weekly updates

September 6, 2010

This week the update comes to you before it heads off on holiday. It’s having a staycation by the British seaside and already has its anorak, stout shoes and thermos packed away in the case. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week'sCoronation Street update.

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Over at the Barlows, secrets are spilled when Lawrence Cunningham arrives. Lawrence is the son of Susan, who Ken tracked down after Norris found her old letter to Ken last week. Anyway, it turns out that Susan died so Lawrence arrived to meet Ken instead. The clues are all there; they're both stuffed shirts, they're both wearing ties, both love a bit of Radio 4 and take two sugars in tea. Deirdre looks from one to t'other and the penny drops straight away. "I'll, er, put the kettle on," she says, as two heads turn towards her in unison: "Oh, that'll be lovely, thanks!" It takes Deirdre to point out the bleeding obvious to Ken after Lawrence has left and Ken can't believe that he's got yet another son. He calls Lawrence again and sits him down at the tea-table to tell him that he's Lawrence's father after courting his mum Susan back in '61. "I'll, er, put the kettle on," says Deirdre, again as two heads turn towards her in unison, again: "Oh, that'll be lovely, thanks!". Not only has Ken gained a son and Deirdre gained another reason for Ken to ignore her, Lawrence has children of his own which means Ken's got more grandchildren too. There's Chloe who's doing a PhD in Devon and James, of whom Lawrence didn't say much, and when he did, he sort of mumbled and had a far-away look in his eyes. We find out the reason for this when James turns up too and there's friction between Ken's new son and grandson. It turns out that James being gay is the reason for Lawrence's lack of love. Meanwhile, Peter spies what's going on and meets Ken's new other son and new other grandson to add to Ken's growing collection, he could probably collect the whole set and win a tea service soon.

Molly goes into labour this week while Tyrone's out on breakdown and Kevin goes into meltdown. Molly has contraptions and Kevin has kittens, worried sick that she'll blurt out the truth about the baby. As Molly's screaming and heaving in her front room under the picture of Saint Vera, Tyrone's stuck in his truck behind a bloke in a van who won't shift off the road. They get into a bit of an argy-bargy and the bloke throws Tyrone's keys into flowers so he has to try to hotwire the car and that's when the cops turn up. But instead of arresting Tyrone, they take him with blue lights flashing back to the Street where it's all go. Unable to wait any longer for th'ambulance to arrive (where's Nurse Platt when you need him?) Molly starts giving birth. Sally rolls up her sleeves, yells at Kevin. "Shift this flamin' table, Kevin, I'm going to wash me hands," and gets busy at the business end of Molly who gives birth to a baby boy just as Tyrone rushes through the door. Ah, but who's the daddy?

Drag Queen Rosie of the Websters puts her pout out this week when sister Sophie runs away with girlfriend Sian. Sally's beside herself with worry but can't, at first, accept that Sophie's gay. "It's just a phase," she tells anyone who'll listen. "At least she's not wearing Doc Martens and a plaid shirt," says Rosie. And er, what exactly is wrong with Doc Martens and a plaid shirt? Sally's made to see sense when Kev tells her that Sophie's sure of her sexuality. At least she's sure of that because she's clearly not sure how old she is. Born in November 1994 makes her 15 years old which makes her too young to have taken her GCSEs this year at school. Oh, minor details, I know, but still. Anyway, Sophie's ran off with Sian and left behind Sally reeling at Dev and Sunita who think the lesbians have legged it because they're feeling guilty over Aadi's Aacidental bump on the head when it's little Simon Barlow to blame.

At the Rovers, Kylie spies Steve's motorbike in the pub yard and the next thing you know, it's been stolen to order and Kylie's got a wad of twenty pound notes in her hand. She's a rum ‘un and no mistake. Becky still thinks the sun shines out of her sister and refuses to believe she's done ‘owt wrong but Kylie's rubbed everyone up the wrong way. When it's Kylie's son Max's 4^th birthday, Kylie steals little Max (who steals each scene he's in) and does a runner with him back to the Rovers. It's up to Becky to do the grown up thing and call the social services to turn her sister in.

Gary Windass returned this week from the military to his mam and Anna's over the moon to see her son but not best pleased when Kylie gets her lips wrapped round solider boy in the Rover's Return.

Natasha confides to Fiz that she's not up the duff when Fiz catches her stealing her own baby scan and presenting it to Nick as if it were her own. Oh what a tangled web she's weaved as she continues to deceive Nicky boy. Nick's starting to think about naming his unborn. Perhaps Ivy for a girl and Bert for a boy?

And over at Underworld, Carla gives Trevor a job as Under Manager as he works his 1 week's notice on the bins. It'll only end in tears and slipped gusset stitches, just you wait and see.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Carmel Morgan, Martin Allen, Chris Fewtrell and Jayne Hollinson.

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

September 13, 2010

This week the update comes to you after its long weekend break in a northern seaside town. By 'eck it were good. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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There's a stinky little geezer with a face like a potato in the Dobbs household, but enough about Tyrone and on with baby Jack. Big Jack gives Tyrone a cheque for five grand for the new baby and gets a hug in return. Tyrone asks Kevin and Sally to be godparents, which doesn't please Molly, as you'd expect. We still don't know who the daddy is, Kev or Tyrone, but in his first week baby Jack has already spent time in the Rovers and stolen many of his scenes.

Talking about fathers and sons, Ken sticks his nose in between Lawrence and James and interferes where he's not wanted. Lawrence tells Ken to mind his own business and Ken tells him to leave. As Lawrence leaves, Deirdre's just got enough time to rinse the bitter taste of Barlow out of the tea cups out before James turns up. Ken empathises with James over Lawrence's homophobic behaviour towards him. "You, Ken, are a true sister!" says James.

Little Aadi and Asha are taken into care after the social workers can't decide on how Aadi ended up with the bump on his head and imply that Dev and Sunita might have hurt their own child. So there's tears all round until little Simon comes clean and admits, finally, it was him who pushed Aadi off the sofa. Now, instead of tears there's snide remarks and vitriol across the cobbles from Peter to Dev to Sunita to Claire who tells Ashley she wants to leave the Street. Oh, just go.

Over at the Rovers, Kylie causes chaos. When she's supposed to be in a court at a hearing to get her son back, she's dancing semi-nekkid around Gary Windass with a bottle of voddy in one hand and mischief on her mind. The pair of them had already nicked Mary's motorhome for a night of mobile passion although Mary's on to them when the motorhome turns up the next morning with ginger hair on the pillow. "Someone's been sleeping in my bed!" she tells Norris, although there wasn't any news on whether porridge was disturbed. Anyway, Becky gets it together, finds Kylie and drags her to court where she's awarded custody of little Max. Is she bovvered? Not much, but Becky clearly is and revels in her role as Aunt while Kylie knocks back the booze in the bar.

As Gary and Kylie get kaylied in the pub, Izzy watches from afar with a crush on solider man. He was supposed to meet her for a drink before he got carried away with Kylie, so she's not best pleased. Later in the bar, some no-mark locals come in and call her a cripple and Gary squares up to the losers later outside the pub. Punches are thrown and Gary ends up knocking the lad unconscious just as Kirk comes to Gary's aid and tells Gary to leg it, fast.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Peter Whalley, Joe Turner, Jonathan Harvey and Mark Wadlow.

Glenda Young
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September 20, 2010

This week the update comes to you before a visit to the cobbles later this week. Oh yes. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Eileen’s got needs, you know. She’s all woman, is Eileen, and all she thinks she needs is a bloke. A decent bloke, who doesn't even need to have his own hair and teeth. Just someone to hug, that's all she wants. And she thinks she's found him again, in Owen this time. There she is, sorting out his books for him, tidying up his timesheets while Owen's on the phone chatting up Liz. As Eileen toils over Owen's accounts, he's getting his feet under Liz's table and then the rest of his body parts under her duvet . Eileen finds out what's going on behind her back and under her nose when Sean spots Liz kissing Owen up the ginnel and he reveals the torrid tale to Eileen that Owen's servicing an old boiler and sorting out her plumbing. Eileen decides to get revenge, but how? She's tempted to nick Owen's petty cash box but that's not Eileen's style. When revenge comes, it'll be served well cold and that Owen, he's a nasty piece, he really is, threatening Sean this week too.

Meanwhile, Kirk does a wonderful – although some may say daft – thing for Gary Windass when Gary gets arrested for assaulting a bloke in the Rovers. With nothing to lose, Kirk tells the cops it was him who hit the bloke and not Gary, who could get into trouble back at barracks. I know Kirk's a nice bloke, a dim bloke but nice, but I still think this was beyond the call of duty for Kirk. Anyway, the charges are dropped and Kirk's sent home a hero.

In the Rovers, there's more trouble with Kylie who nicks cash from the till. Then Steve finds her with her fingers in Becky's handbag robbing more cash, and threatens to tell Becky unless Kylie and Max move out and far, far away. Kylie reacts by fluttering her eyelids and plumping up her cleavage to get round Steve but he's not having any of it, not yet any road. And it doesn't look like Kylie's going anywhere, not now that Becky has told her she can stay as long as she flippin' well wants.

At Underworld, Trevor's the underdog now he's started work as Carla's office assistant. He's useless, he really is. He can't type, he can't answer the phone, and when he rips through a package of newly delivered silk, Carla's at her wits end. But what did she expect when this time last week he was working on the bins? Mind you, he is gorgeous so if she did want to chuck him out with the trash he could always come and sit on my office desk here in the weekly updates office.

There's trouble for Natasha this week when Nick proposes and she accepts. So far, so good except that Natasha was just about to reveal that she wasn't pregnant. At their engagement party, Gail's jealously spills over and she suspects there's more to Natasha than she's let on. Oh, but there is. And so Gail logs into the medical centre computer to look up Natasha's medical records and discovers that she isn't pregnant after all and that she's had an abortion. Audrey catches her in the act and warns Gail not only will she lose her job if anyone finds out, but If she confronts Nick with the news, she'll lose her son too.

Sophie and Sian turn up this week, we see them working in a nasty kitchen then living on the nasty floor of a nasty house. It's nasty. Sophie's starting to feel homesick but Sian tells her if they go home they'd be made to split up and so they have a hug and the camera pans away. More of the same coming up.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were David Lane, Damon Rochefort, John Kerr, Julie Jones and Jan McVerry.

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

September 27, 2010

This week the update is as happy as larry after its visit to the Corrie cobbles last week. There are pictures online right here: http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-gallery-our-pictures-from-corries.html And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Proof, if proof was needed, that Gail's turning into Ivy Tilsley was seen on the Street this week when she confronts Natasha over not being pregnant. Natasha begs Gail to let her be the one who break the news to Nick and on this Gail agrees, to a point. She calls at their flat later and barks in the intercom: "Has she told yer yet?"then storms upstairs and turns Nick's life upside down by revealing that there's no baby. Cue tears on the sofa as Nick packs Natasha's bags and tells her to shift. Hoping she'll get some sympathy from Audrey, she hot-foots to the Platts where she's stalled by a wonderful line from David as even he sticks up for Nick. "Blood's thicker than Barbicide,"he says, backed up by both Audrey and Gail. Mind you, isn't Barbicide when a small blonde doll commits suicide? To add insult to injury, Audrey sacks Natasha from the salon and Gail just loves it that Nick's going to come running back home to his mum. Well, he doesn't, not yet, not when he finds out that he's got a Barbicide of his own on his hands when Natasha tries to do away with herself with a little help from vodka and pills. Now, oh now, Audrey feels a twinge of guilt. "I sacked her,"she muses. "We all sacked her,"replies David, glaring at Gail. "But one of us enjoyed it." Nick rushes to th'ospital where Natasha comes round and he gives her a kiss and cuddle but Natasha's head is a mess and a muddle that's going to need anti-depressants and counselling to help. With nowhere to go, Audrey offers Natasha a place to stay and when Nick finds out, he pops round with some roses and a half-hearted invitation for Natasha to move back in. At first Natasha's excited with the news, but Audrey warns her not to get her hopes up but she piles on the make-up, flicks-up her hair and cabs it back to the cobbles where she gives everyone what for and what great scenes these were.

First, it's David in the salon who she knocks down to size with a couple of bite-size biting bitchy remarks. Then it's to Leanne in the bookies before hitting Underworld where she humiliates Nick in front of everyone by revealing the nicknames he uses at home for his workforce. Sean is incensed to know that Nick calls him "limp wrists", Janice is "the grunting garden gnome", Julie's "Jackie O". "But she was a style icon!"Julie points out before Natasha remembers, "I mean Jackie No" Nick's nickname for Carla's "Mount Everest" – frosty and too big to mount. With that, Natasha heads to the medical centre where she gives Gail grief in front of the medical centre's patients and Betty who sits open-mouthed, taking it all in. Doctor Matt comes out of his office to find out what the commotion's all about and when he discovers Gail's breached patient confidentiality he sacks her on the spot. "You can't do that!"yells Gail. Oh but he can, and he does, and if he so wanted, he could prosecute her through the courts. With everyone told what she really thinks, Natasha turns on her heel, jumps into a cab and takes her leave of Nick and the Street. I'm so pleased they didn't kill her off and hope she'll be back, she was great.

Elsewhere, Eileen Grimshaw has never been a dogsbody, never, so why she's degrading herself working for Owen Armstrong who treats her like dirt, is beyond me. I don't understand it. Eileen would've and should've told Owen where to stick his petty cash box by now. But no, she's gritting her teeth and as Owen turns nasty, Eileen gets her revenge, one cheque at a time when she's left in charge of Owen's accounts. The first thing she does is write a cheque out to Jason for wages owed by Owen. When Owen finds out there's going to be trouble with a capital Oh ‘Eck.

Over at the Websters, Sally and Kevin breathe a sigh of relief when Sophie returns. Sophie rings Rosie who collars Jason Grimshaw to drive Kevin's car to pick up Sophie and Sian. There's hugs and kisses all round and Sally wants to know what's going on between Rosie and builder-boy Jase. Rosie rolls her eyes to suggest nothing's going on. "He's so thick!"she opines, rolling her eyes again once she's sensed the possibilities of their IQ love match. Mind you, while Sophie's folks are happy to see their daughter again, Sian's dad is less pleased that his daughter's in love with a girl: "You grubby cows!"and spits out and storms back to Southport sans Sian. When he returns he's got Sian's mum in tow but it makes no difference, poor Sian's parents are dreadful and walk out after shouting at Sally and Kev. There were some brilliant lines from writer Jonathan Harvey in these scenes with Sally offering Sian's parents a seat on the sofa: "I've made some coffee. Would you like to sit soft?"Then there was Sally pointing out to Sian's mum that Rosie went to a private school. "Which one?"she asked, peering behind the cleavage and legs. "Saint Trinians?" And Sally pointing out that there's no law against lesbianism, "I know because I've googled it."

Over in the Kabin, Rita has a few tears when she finds out that her credit card's been cloned and used by someone she doesn't know. "They've bought a telly and a barbeque and… " she pauses "…something from an adult shop!" Norris finds out his bank account's been hacked too and puts the blame on Tina and Graeme, forgetting his laptop has been out of action and in for repair.

In other news this week, Ryan started college at WIPA (Weatherfield Institute for Performing Arts) and Ciaran contemplates a job offer elsewhere.

And finally this week, Jack moves back in with Tyrone, Molly and the new baby. He tells Tyrone over a pint in the Rovers that that's nowt wrong between him and Connie, he's just missing Tyrone and new baby Jack, but there was something in the way he told Tyrone that he wanted to spend as much time as possible with them all, that suggests there's more to Jack's move than he's letting on. He puts a brave face on and asks Tyrone for a gossip catch up (he should really read this blog!). Tyrone leans in conspiratorially and whispers: "You know that Sophie Webster? She's Lebanese!"

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Chris Fewtrell, Simon Crowther, Carmel Morgan and Jonathan Harvey.

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