Coronation Street weekly updates

May 3, 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. This week the update is looking for full-time or part-time paid employment on its return to Sunderland. So if you're reading this, like what you see and you think you've got a slot I can fit into perfectly – and I mean that most sincerely – then do please email me and we'll talk office biscuits and draw up the rota for the Friday cake run. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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I love Coronation Street. I've been watching it since I was little and I'm 5' 9" now. I used to watch it with my mam and my grandma. Mam used to tut at Elsie Tanner's cleavage and me and grandma used to tut at mam. I've been a fan of Corrie for as long as I can remember, it's been part of my life for more years then most of my family have. But I'm not enjoying it any more. Not now, not for a while. It's gone downhill and I know it'll come back up but it's so blinking dull at the minute I've been doing things I've never done before while Corrie's been on TV, like walking out of the room or worse still, changing channels. You'll excuse me, therefore, if the update this week takes a cynical turn as it'll be critical of Corrie more than usual although there were of course some wonderful highlights, glimpses of the Corrie I know and have always loved.

So here we go starting off with the highlight that was Ken and Deirdre taking up an evening class for old crocks, pottery throwing. Ken wants to sculpt an Etruscan Urn, Deirdre wants to make an ashtray so when Deirdre's pottery teacher praises her to the hilt for her urn work, Ken sulks in the corner over the attention that Deirdre's attracting for her talent."He wouldn't know an Etruscan urn if Tracy hit him over the head with it!" cries Ken, or Keith as the pottery teacher calls him. Ken's sculpture's more flaccid, a limp little vase that you could probably stick a couple of carnations in if you were so inclined.

More highlights courtesy of the Barlows was the return of Ken's gay grandson James, who he invites to move in, much to Deirdre's chagrin. Ooh, I don't think I've ever used chagrin in a weekly update before. Where he'll sleep is anyone's guess as there's already a house full with Ken, Deirdre, little Amy and Tracy with her ten multiple personalities who all demand a room of their own.

A further highlight was Gail, desperate to cling onto her Nicky as he ventures forth with his new bistro. She tries and fails to get the bar manager's job and ends up as the cleaner instead."I'll just go and give the gents a good bottoming," she tells Nick before scuttling off in her pinny. But when Nick tells her he wants her out of sight before the wine tasting evening, Gail pouts and feels put out, but them glams up in a new frock, and shines with the Chardonnay.

Shame on the sham wedding for making me lose heart in Corrie and let's rejoice that it could soon be over. Mary grasses up Xin and Graeme and they get a call from a wonderfully bumptious inspector from the UK Border Agency. They lie throughout their interview and pass with flying colours, Xin gets her visa and has feelings for Graeme while Tina smoulders in a bad mood and cool t-shirt behind the bar of the Rovers pulling pints with just an extra bit of bitter. Xin flirts with Graeme and helps him with his window cleaning round and I know, I just know, I wasn't the only one who hooted with laughter when she fell off the ladder. Oh go on, admit it, you know you did too. Be gone, Xin, be gone. You were a waste of space and we really didn't care. "Love is a four letter word," Tina tells the Border Angecy inspector."So is visa," he replied. So is dull.

As this was a Bank Holiday weekend, Corrie took its outside broadcast crew to Blackpool again where Steve and Tracy rehashed an old storyline. Amy went missing, Steve's car got towed away and they all had to stay in a B&B overnight but hush, don't tell Becky because she'll go mental. Tracy makes sure that Becky finds out and yes she went mental, taking herself out on the booze for a binge and a bloke. She was wearing well, you know, an outfit that made the men of the nation go"Phwoar". I know my mam would have tutted.

Don't forget, I really am looking for a job!

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Simon Crowther, Chris Fewtrell, Mark Wadlow and Martin Allen. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:

http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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

May 10, 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

If you'd like your Coronation Street weekly updates with pictures and fun stuff, then you might enjoy the Coronation Street blog: http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com and perhaps even follow it on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Corrie_Blogger Find out more about the Coronation Street Weekly Updates and why they've been written for th'internet since 1995 at http://www.corrieweeklyupdates.btinternet.co.uk

The earth is back on its axis. The seas are calm, the sky is blue, Maria’s dressing hair once again and all is well with the world. Fresh out of the hell that was her nightmare job of being underdog at Underworld, Maria’s back working in the salon for Audrey, doing what she does best, chewing on a pen end and gazing into the middle distance wondering why old Missus Errington’s been under the dryer since Tuesday without a cup of tea. Audrey’s pleased to have her back especially as she’s got more on her plate than she can chew at the mo.

Yes, Audrey’s being blamed for having a fling with Claudia’s man, Marc the transvestite. Audrey knows that Marc likes to dress up for kicks but Claudia doesn’t and assumes the reason Marc’s bought a new silk scarf is for her, not him. So when he takes her out for dinner and says he’s got something for her, she’s not best pleased when she gets a box of chocs. "It’s a design classic, for a design classic," he tells her, offering her the chocs. I normally get offered a big, fat tart. Anyway, when Claudia doesn’t get the silk scarf, she thinks Marc’s got another woman, which he sort of has, and that it’s Audrey, which it sort of isn’t. In fact, it most definitely isn’t and the only way Marc can convince Claudia of the truth is by dressing up in frock and matching scarf to deliver the shock news to her. Claudia can’t take it, not going out with someone who out –Dynasty’s her at every turn and she drives off in her car, which is much like herself, a fast-moving, sporty little number with the top off. "I’ve been made a fool of by a tranny and a granny!" she yells as she speeds away.

Elsewhere this week, there’s been yawny tiresome arguments in the Rovers between Becky, Steve and Tracy. I won’t even tell you what’s been said and what hasn’t, you can fill in the blanks yourself, I’m quite sure, we’ve see this love triangle too many times. Of interest however, is that David sets his heart on getting Max back from Becky and Steve so he can play at being diddy daddy David. He doesn’t yet know of course that his new wife Kylie sold her son to the McDonalds for a whole load of McDosh.

In Roy’s Rolls, Sylvia’s helping out in the caff, adding her tuppence of insight to every conversation she eavesdrops. "I know all about women like Tracy Barlow," she tells Becky, "I was almost one myself." Ooh, I bet she was.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Jan McVerry, David Lane, Carmel Morgan, Simon Crowther and Chris Fewtrell. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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

May 16, 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. This week the update's got its feet up on the sofa and is having a cuppa and a pack of digestives. Ooh, now there's crumbs all over the keyboard. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

Regular readers (hello mum!) will know I've been disillusioned with Corrie over the last couple of weeks but this week, I'm pleased to report, Corrie's starting to pick itself up again. It's mainly due to some wonderful dialogue we've had this week but also very much due to the return of Dennis Tanner. Yes, Corrie's original bad lad has returned to the cobbles. He turned up in the homeless shelter where Rosie and Sian are helping out Ken's grandson James. Anyway, this is the world of soap so it doesn't take long for Dennis to be given a wash and a brush up from old mate Rita, who recognises Dennis and takes him in, gives him a shower and a shirt and a suit and takes him to the Rovers for a drink. Emily and Ken remember Dennis too but that doesn't stop nosy Norris from sticking his oar in asking awkward questions about what Dennis was doing in a homeless shelter in the first place. More interesting, surely, would be to know what Rita was doing with a whole set of men's clothes in her wardrobe, but what do I know?

Anyway, bringing back Dennis was a master stroke by Corrie. He shared a tender moment with Rita, telling her how Elsie died. At 81 years old, she was in a red sports car in the Algarve when she died in a car crash, holding hands with Bill Gregory. "To Elsie," says Rita, "They don't make ‘em like that anymore." They most certainly don't.

Over at the Barlow's, little Amy is deliberately making herself ill by bringing on an allergic reaction drinking milk. She's doing it so that daddy Steve comes in and takes care of her, and he's nice to mummy Tracy while he's there too. Becky's doing her nut in with jealousy over Steve spending so much time in the Barlow's instead of behind the bar.

Elsewhere, desperate Duckworth tries to chat up Sian and won't back off even though all his mates tell him that she's gay and Sophie warns him off too. So when Rosie hears that sister Sophie's upset that Tommy's set his sights on Sian, she tells Jason they're finished as she doesn't want anything more to do with his mate. Jason tries to convince Rosie that Tommy's all right but Rosie knows he's not. She lures Tommy to her house to get revenge on him and show him up for the loser he is. He turns up quick sharp, sure he's on a promise with Rosie and wanders downstairs in his pants. But instead of raunchy Rosie waiting for him, there's Jason, Sophie and Sian, making a mockery of his manhood.

Marcus returned to Corrie this week and wants to try again with Sean. Sean's not sure what to feel, he's happy to see Marcus but nervous he'll get hurt again. Eileen sets them up on a blind date where they have a heart to heart and decide to give it a go as Marcus moves back to Weatherfield to be a midwife at th'ospickle.

And finally this week, in a storyline that looks set to run, John Stape's secrets start to unfold when Chesney gets suspicious and visits Charlotte's parents to find out what's going on with Colin/John. Chesney pretends to be Colin Fishwick's younger brother and is somewhat stunned to find out that Colin/John was engaged to Charlotte Hoyle and there's pictures of him with her. It's left to nosy neighbor Clifford to fill in Chesney on some more disturbing facts about the death of Joy Fishwick and a nasty pattern starts to form in Chesney's confused head. John panics when Charlotte's parents come calling to visit him as Colin and he rushes out of the house leaving Fiz and baby Hope alone, takes the Hoyles back to their house and, well, you'll have to tune in next week but let's just say he's done something nasty to them down in the basement. Ooh, it's going to be fun when it all comes out in the wash.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Jayne Hollinson, Julie Jones, Damon Rochefort, Ellen Taylor and John Kerr. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:

http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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

May 23, 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. This week the update's getting ready to go camping. Clean socks? Check. Warm PJs? Check. Vodka? Check. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

If you'd like your Coronation Street weekly updates with pictures and fun stuff, then you might enjoy the Coronation Street blog: http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com and perhaps even follow it on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Corrie_Blogger Find out more about the Coronation Street Weekly Updates and why they've been written for th'internet since 1995 at http://www.corrieweeklyupdates.btinternet.co.uk

There's a funny smell coming from underneath Underworld. The drains are blocked and Carla's not pleased. She blames Owen for shoddy refurbishment work and he rightly takes neither the blame nor the responsibility, he just tells Carla if she wants diagnostics done on her drains, it'll cost her. Oh, it's gonna cost her alright when she finds out just what's causing that stench. It's not something fishy, it's something Fishwick.

Over at the garage, Kevin gets an erection on his new tool that goes up and down. Up and down, up and down, up and down goes the new twenty thousand pounds electronic ramp that he refuses to let Tyrone use. In a foul mood, Tyrone gives it a good thumping with his spanner and when Kev's next underneath there, tinkering with the camshaft or whatever the business end of a car's called, the thing collapses on top of Kevin, crushing his arm and sending him to th'ospickle. Tyrone comes clean and tells Kev it was he who damaged the machine. Kev sheds a few tears feeling sorry for himself but it was me who was choked when Tyrone goes round to see Kevin to tell him he wants to forgive and forget all about him sleeping with Molly, having her baby if Kevin'll forgive him for trying to kill him. Seems a square deal to me.

Meanwhile John's got the Hoyles and Chesney tied up in the basement of the Hoyles house. It's too silly for words and won't be over for quite some time yet. Best buckle up, it's going to be a clumpy ride.

Sally returns from a loved-up weekend in Paris with Jeff although Eileen wonders how well a dirty weekend in France could have gone when Sally tells her she spent most of her time in the Louvre. Well, at least Jeff's loved-up, Sally's not too sure but she's pleased to be back and even helps Kevin look after baby Jack.

Little FayE, jealous at the attention that Anna's giving Katy, tells Owen that Katy's pregnant. He goes storming in with all guns blazing on Katy, who's wondering why Chesney's done a runner (he's locked up in the Hoyles cellar, but no one knows where he is).  And Owen, now that he knows Anna knows about Katy and the baby, gives Anna the glad-eye over the barmcakes in Roy's Rolls.  Ooh, where's Eddie Windass when you need him? Seriously, where is Eddie Windass?

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Mark Burt, Mark Wadlow, Jan McVerry, Jonathan Harvey and Debbie Oates. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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

May 30, 2011