Coronation Street weekly updates

June 13, 2011

Greetings and welcome to the Coronation Street Weekly Update. Eagle-eyed readers (hello mum) will know there was no update last week. The reason for that is that I've never enjoyed Corrie so little in my whole Corrie-fan-filled-life. However, Corrie's back on form this week and it even made me smile. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Sunita's aunties are back on the Street, desperate to set up their niece with someone nice once they find out that Dev's empire has been reduced to one corner shop and a kebabbery place. But doesn't he still own the flat in Victoria Court? Never mind, it's not enough for the aunties who tell Sunita she's got to find herself a new fella and they take it upon themselves to find someone for her. Must haves include a decent head of hair and social standing, so that's Steve McDonald out of the frame but it puts Nick Tilsley and Dr. Carter very firmly in. Even Marcus comes under scrutiny of the aunties until Sean comes to collect him from their clutch.

Sean receives bad news in a phone call that tells him that Violet's been involved in a car crash. She's going to be fine but her back's in a bad way and fortunately Dylan wasn't with her in the car but she needs someone to take care of the lad. Sean's up to the task, with Marcus' full support, and the two lads head to London to pick up Sean's son. Lovely.

Fiz is in court on fraud charges for fiddling Joy Fishwick's will when she knew fine well she wasn't entitled. John's gone AWOL and Fiz is going mad with despair at the state that she's in. Friends rally round to support her but the best line of all to her was: "You've been Staped!" Sally Webster gets a gloat in and snipes to her about Stape.

The tedium that's been Graeme and Xin's sham wedding looks set to be finally gone from our screens. Tina finds out what's been going on between her boyfriend and best friend (you know, the best friend who came out of nowhere and took the soap by the hand down the path of dull despair). Anyway, long story cut short, Graeme makes his decision to choose Xin over Tin and leaves the Street with Xin, leaving Tin in tears and threatening to call immigration to shop up Xin. Remember how Graeme came into Corrie a bit mad, a bit bad, a bit dangerous to know? And look what they've done to such a great character, leaving the Street in a bad hat without even a smile. Shame.

Over at the soup kitchen, Sophie and Sian get the blame from James after the day centre's burgled. He reckons they didn't lock up properly at the end of their shift and the two girls feel bad. Sophie and Sian rake money together to repay James some of the stolen cash and Kevin goes ballistic when he walks in on his daughter handing cash over to James. So has the centre been broken into? Is James really telling the truth? Sally and Kev don't want Sophie to have anything more to do with the charity but Sophie defies them both and accepts a full-time voluntary post after James butters her up an offer she can't refuse, and one she won't get paid for.

Over at the Rovers, Steve's solicitor draws up a contract to give him access to Amy. All he needs to do now is soften up Tracy so she agrees to it all. He starts by offering her the job back behind the bar. Tracy's not daft, she knows there's a reason that Steve's being nice to her, but she accepts the work all the same.

And finally something which put a smile on my face this week was the return of Brian Packham. Brian, you'll remember, is the Headmaster of the School where Colin/John used to teach. He's read about Colin/John taking the Hoyles' hostage, it's the headline in the Weatherfield Gazette. Armed with newspaper tucked firmly under his arm, he storms in to see Fiz for gossip and chat. It's the last thing Fiz wants, to scrape all the dirt up on John with someone she hardly knows, but it's a good quality farce that was very good to watch. And when Brian spies Julie, he's hopeful that they can reignite the spark that once flared, ever so briefly but brightly, between them, before Julie found out that Brian was wed. His wife's left him now, he tells Julie, but that doesn't thaw the cool and calm Ms Carp, not until Fiz admits it was her and John's fault that Julie and Brian split up. Julie's face lights up as her heart catches fire, once again, and the love-light burns bright for Brian.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Martin Allen, Simon Crowther, Julie Jones, John Kerr and Jim Cartwright.

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Glenda Young
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June 20, 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.

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As Deirdre settles herself on the sofa with her book The Treasures of Ancient Greece, Tracy mopes around wondering how she let Steve stitch her up. She's signed the contract giving him access to Amy on the grounds that she thought Steve was going to offer her the bar manager's job at the pub but he only goes and gives it to Stella and Karl, Stella's fella, the new couple who've moved into the pub. Stella's blonde and brash with a Northern accent that wavers in the way that Whitney Houston's singing voice wavers, using forty-seven notes when you only need to hear one. Maybe it's because the actress who plays her is a Londoner and well, we're just going to have to get used. First impressions of the new couple, the Price pair, are good. Stella and Karl are joined by Stella's daughter Eva, a blonde bit who enters in tears, always a good start. Best line of the week was Steve interviewing Stella for the job and he asks Tina to bring them some coffee , some biscuits. "What's this? Downton Abbey?" replies Tina with a snarl that would have made Betty proud. Becky tries to flirt with Karl and accuses Steve of sleeping with Eva, not a great way to ingratiate herself with the new incumbents and it's all too much for Steve to take and he tells Becky he's filing for a divorce. By ‘eck, that solicitor of his is being kept in funds. Oh, and Karl starts work as a cab drive for Streetcars, in that same way that any new bloke in town who likes a pint, does.

Sean's son Dylan moves into Eileen's with Marcus and Sean. So that's a baby, two blokes, Jason the dumb son and Rosie the glamour model cohabiting with Eileen, Salford's mother earth. "She's had more gay men through her front door than attended Judy Garland's funeral," sniffs Norris. He does a lot of sniffing, does Norris this week. He's not best pleased about Sean and Marcus' parenting skills and even has a go at Maria and little Liam. He's nasty is Norris. He almost lets on to Sylvia about Hayley's past, until Rita gives him a kick under the table and warns him: "Purse your lips any tighter and you'll swallow your chin." But it's not Nasty Norris who breaks the news to Sylvia, it's toxic Tracy who tells Sylvia the truth about Hayley's past. In an excellent scene, Sylvia refuses to get her head around it all, telling Roy he was always a disappointment to her. She takes to the flat upstairs, doing more miserable moaning than a bitter and twisted Daily Mail columnist. "She's Hayley Cropper, it's as simple as that," Becky tells her. And indeed it is.

Over at the Rovers, Dev gets down on one knee to propose to Sunita. He's done up to the nines in black suit and tie, it's double-oh-Dev, licensed to thrill and sell intoxicating liquors from a back street shop. He opens the box and pulls out a sparkler of a ring. But Sunita turns him down, much to the aunties' dismay and they go back to Mumbai in a bad mood.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Damon Rochefort, David Lane, Mark Burt, 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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June 27, 2011

Roy's mum Sylvia starts showing some chinks in her armour when she softens and has a bit of a moment with a photo of Roy when he was nowt but a boy. This was a lovely touch as Corrie used what was very obviously a picture of actor David Neilson, who plays Roy, and Sylvia sighed over the photo at a table for one in the caff.

Over at Underworld, Carla gets a call to say her mum has died. She plays to her strengths and handles the news in the way she knows best and orders a whole bottle of red in the Rovers. Frank takes her home as she's too drunk to do anything and when he shows her a bit of compassion and tucks her up on the sofa, she leans in for a kiss but he backs off, slightly concerned. Anyway, she conks out on his settee but she's also making eyes at Peter Barlow again which doesn't please Leanne not one little bit.

Anyway, Leanne's got more problems on her mind than her husband giving the glad eye to the local lush. An armed robber comes into the bookies and threatens Leanne and Stella, who's in there at the time. Stella tackles the fella to the ground and shoos him out with his own baseball bat, protecting Leanne because she's Leanne's real mum, only no one knows it just yet.

Stella Price's name goes up above the door at the Rovers and no matter how many times you see that happen in Corrie, it's always an iconic moment and makes this fan wonder how long Stella will last. First impressions are good but ooh, you just never know. There's more argy-bargy in the Rovers when Leanne hears Stella's daughter Eva (and soon to be revealed as Leanne's half-sister) slagging her off behind her back. "Take your face back to the charity shop where you got it from," retorts Leanne in a wonderful line written by Jonathan Harvey. Let's just hope she gets the £3.99 back that she paid for it. All the noise and fuss in the pub is too much for Norris and Emily, Deirdre and Ken, who take to the bistro for a bit of P&Q. Norris picks up the fancy-pants Bistro menu and raises his eyebrows. "Pan fried steak? I mean, what else would you fry it in," which isn't a line I've ever said before, no, not me, not ever. I am not Norris, No.

At the Rovers, Becky has a fag in the back yard before walking in to take control of what she still thinks of as being her pub. Walking in the back way is never a good sign, not when you want to make a statement. It must always be by the front door, always, and always with your head held high and a smile on your face, no matter how pained. Becky clearly has a lot to learn. She decides to throw a party in the Rovers, to prove to Stella and Karl she's still in charge, but when the jukebox starts banging and the locals start dancing, in walks Ken and cuts the cord to the jukebox, ending the party and Becky's reign. Go on there, Ken. Undeterred. Becky gets the jukebox fixed and throws a party with a stripper for Jason's 28th birthday. And what a party it is, the stripper ruffles Ken's hair, who comes in again to complain, then a fight breaks out and the place goes wild. Steve pulls up in a cab outside his pub just in time to see a bar stool thrown through the window, followed by a gang of lads stumbling and falling out of the door. Perfect timing. He sacks Stella and offers Becky five grand to do a runner but she tells him she's staying put for now.

Eileen and Julie discover they're distantly related to Dennis Tanner when he reveals that his mum Elsie's maiden name was Grimshaw. Julie gets excited about finding a long lost relative living down the street and well, you know Eileen, she's not that fussed. A wonderful moment came when Dennis visited No. 11 for the first time since he lived there as a lad with his mum Elsie.

And Izzy has a hard time with Gary who's deleting her texts from her mates so she can't go out and have a good time without him. Is it post traumatic syndrome from his time in the army, or is he just a mardy little man?

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Jonathan Harvey, David Lane, Chris Fewtrell, Joe Turner and Mark Wadlow. 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